We now have e-only access to the following titles which previously were print standing orders. Access is through ScienceDirect and we are entitled to current year plus the previous 4 years. For Methods in Enzymology we have access back to 2000.

Advances in Applied Microbiology (2010-2014)

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (2010-2014)

Advances in Botanical Research (2010-2014)

Advances in Child Development and Behavior (2010-2014)

Advances in Ecological Research (2010-2014)

Progress in Optics (2010-2014)

Methods in Enzymology (2000-2014)

Wendy Wu

Many thanks for sending all your election ephemera to us at Macmillan Brown. If you are interested in the numbers, we received the largest number of individual pieces from the Labour party at 50. There were 35 items from National, closely followed by the Conservatives on 32 and the Greens with 23. There are 4 from the Democrats, 2 from Internet Mana and only 1 each from Act and the Maori Party. Here’s a pie-chart of what that would look like if converted into seats in parliament (based only on quantity not quality of items received).

You may have noticed that surprisingly, NZ First isn’t on the chart so it’s still not too late to send in any thing you have lying around. Just pop it in a hamper for MB.
Rebecca T.

PeopleSoft will be unavailable for maintenance from noon, Friday until 8.30 a.m. Monday. So if you have any leave or management transactions to process …

ITS have warned of a recent increase in ‘Ransomware’ activity. This is a form of malware which encrypts the contents of your computer drives, and requires you to pay a ransom to get a key to unencrypt your data. I’ve put the text of the email below, but note that this is as much an issue for us with our home computers as it is on campus – probably more so in that the University does have backups. The summary: be very careful if you get any email about parcel deliveries and not just from Australian Post).

(ITS) has been aware of a run of Ransomware linking spam messages that claim to be from Australia Post.

The email message pretends that a parcel delivery was attempted but failed and that the recipient needs to provide details to allow for a follow up delivery.

The email sender has a prefix of info@ and a suffix of any of the following (eg. info@aust-post.com):
austp.net
austpst.org
austpst.net
austpst.com
aut.post.su
austpost.biz
auspost-tracking24.com (or biz, org, info, net)
auspost-tracking.com (or biz, org, info, net)
auspost-parcel.com (or biz, org, info, net)
auspost-delivery.com, auspost-delivery.net, auspost-delivery.org
aust-post.com (or biz, org, info, net)
aus-post.com, aus-post.info, aus-post.biz, aus-post.org
auspost.biz
au-post.com (or biz, org, info, net)
autpost.net
aut-post.info, aut-post.biz, aut-post.su
aust-post.net, aust-post.org
aust.su, aust.pw
delivery-service.net
postaust.com (or biz, org, info, net)
postaut.info, postaut.net
postaust.com
postconfirm.com, postconfirm.net

The Ransomware appears to be CryptoWall.

If a user clicks on the malicious links in the spam message, the malware will encrypt all the files they have access to.
The ransom amount appears to be from $600, doubling to $1200 if the dead line is not met.

We have been on Internet Explorer 10 for some time, as have the students. But other staff (academic and general) have not – they have been on IE 8 which is not well supported by some of our eResource vendors.

Next week this will change with all UC Staff machines upgrading to IE 10. This should mean a more consistent experience across campus although with 4 browsers supported by ITS (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Firefox) it is never going to be completely homogeneous.

Peter K

We have some maintenance to do on the Catalogue and we will have to stop it briefly just after 8.30 am. We may also have to rebuild indexes once we have restarted it, but if so will add to this posting.

Thanks, Peter K

from Elsevier (after the fact!)

The ScienceDirect interface was updated on Saturday, September 6 as part of a longer-term initiative to improve site efficiency and effectiveness for the user.
Key area updates
• – My Alerts page
• – Recommended Articles export option with multiple download capabilities
• – Book citation export function for easier downloads
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We would like to thank our user community for playing a vital part in the success of ScienceDirect and encourage everyone to try these recent interface enhancements.
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After several years of discussion, the National Digital Forum has decided to retire Matapihi. The National Library led DigitalNZ has become the main digital initiative for shared NZ content and includes the Matapihi content. Supporting both platforms was not possible; indeed somewhat confusing.

From later this week, connections to Matapihi will be redirected to DigitalNZ.

Peter K

This week is Tongan Language Week. The theme for this year is “Enriching Aotearoa with Tongan Wisdom- Ko e Kai ia ‘a e Tonga“. The fabulous Mereana Taungapeau from National Library has written a wonderful blog post looking at traditional Tongan Whakataukī and whakatauākī (proverbs/traditional sayings). http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/ko-e-kai-ia-a-e-tonga

She explains the deeper meanings of some of these traditional kōrero. Her writing is also accompanied by some lovely images from National Library Turnbull Collections as well.

Hi Everyone

You may have seen the recent message from ICTS when you login to the Wiki about just using I.E, Safari or Firefox on shared computers.

The problem this addresses also occurs with EBL ebooks. The Chrome browser now seems to use cookie information to log you into a service. On a shared computer, the cookie may have been left by a previous user and you can end up with their session. This is why ICTS is concerned about wiki access.

For EBL eBooks it can mean that a user just sees a generic bookshelf, rather than the books that they have been reading. On campus, Ezproxy is automatically logged-in for most databases. This automatic login is shared by everyone. However, EBL forces an individual user to login, so that they see just their history. Unfortunately the latest version of Chrome over-rides this and our users can get the shared ‘background’ login.

This should not be a problem off-campus, but if anybody reports strange problems with EBL books on campus, recommend that they use a browser other than Chrome. We are looking at other solutions.

Peter K