The Knowledge Basket team has created video tutorials for NZ Index and for Niustext. Links to these have been added to the Databases pages.
• NZ Index
• Niustext
Lindy Winterburn, co-founder of Knowledge Basket, would like any feedback so if you have any suggestions, please email Lindy: linda.winterburn@knowledge-basket.co.nz
Deirdre
During the year EBSCO will be providing regular training webinars. Webinars this month are mainly for public libraries, but later in the year they will be more relevant to academic libraries.
If you’re interested in receiving the EBSCO Publishing training schedule you can sign up for the EBSCO ANZ Training Update so that you will be alerted to upcoming webinars.
Deirdre
31 journals have been added to JSTOR…
February is Bike Wise Challenge month. If you registered for the Challenge last year then you won’t need to register again. Login to the Bike Wise site, fill in a survey and start logging your rides for this year. Last years trips still appear, but only trips logged during the Challenge period (1-28 February) will count towards the results for this year.
If you didn’t take part last year, now is your chance. To sign up, click the Register link below the login box (or the Register tab) select University of Canterbury (Organisation) and Library (Department). After you’ve registered, remember to log your trips every day. As an incentive, there are daily spot prizes if you enter your previous days details by 2pm the next day.
If we get almost everybody registered and riding at least 2 km (anywhere, not just to work) we could win a sumptious morning tea for the whole Library. Learn more
Let’s all get cycling in February! 
Deirdre
Access to some titles in the Springer backfiles collections (content prior to 1997) is currently unavailable. Springer is working on the problem and access will be restored asap.
Our subscribed backfiles are:
• behavioral science
• biomedical & life sciences
• business and economics
• earth and environmental science
• engineering
• humanities, social sciences and law
• mathematics and statistics
Deirdre
A 30 minute online demonstration/training session on the Oxford English Dictionary will be run on Thursday 28th January at 10 am.
The session will look at different search options, features and practical uses of Oxford English Dictionary. There will also be time for any questions.
Please let me know if you are interested.
Deirdre
3 new titles available:
• Journal of Historical Research in Music Education [1999- ] Vol. 1, No. 1 (July, 1980) – Vol. 26, No. 2 (April, 2005) Previous Title: The Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education [1980-1999]
• NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2004-2007
• Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica New Series, Vol. 1 (1979) – New Series, Vol. 75, No. 3 (2003)
These will be available via the Journals page tomorrow and added to the Catalogue mid-January 2010.
As of January 2, 2010, the Society for Military History will no longer participate in JSTOR. Coverage for The Journal of Military History ends with volume 71, Issue 4, 2007. No further volumes will be added to JSTOR. JSTOR will continue to preserve The Journal of Military History from 1937 to 2007, which includes all previous titles.
We have also added the Arts & Sciences VIII Collection to our subscription. This collection “…will broaden JSTOR’s coverage of core humanities disciplines including history, language & literature, art & art history, and education. Included in this set will be a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. With a minimum of 140 titles by its completion in 2011, this collection will also include journals in philosophy, classical studies, and music.”
Journals list || Upcoming Journals
Deirdre
Later this month the interfaces for General OneFile (and PowerPack Databases) Academic OneFile (and PowerPack Databases) and Literature Resource Center will be updated to PowerSearch.
Some of the enhancements to General OneFile and Academic OneFile (PowerSearch 2.0) include:
• The ability for users to create custom profiles
• Customizable RSS feeds on the products homepage
• Web 2.0 sharing tools (Del.icio.us, MySpace, Digg, Facebook, Newsvine & more).
• On demand translation of documents into 11 languages
• ReadSpeaker technology
• Featured publications, including recently added & titles chosen by librarians that are relevant to their users.
A preview site has been set up (expires 31 Dec.):
NZ PowerSearch Trial (password: search)
Deirdre
Online Journal Archive content from the first volume to 1996 for the the following collections has been added to our Springer access:
• behavioral science – 62 titles
• business and economics – 52 titles
• humanities, social sciences and law – 119 titles
• mathematics and statistics – 105 titles
Title lists can be found on the Springer Online Archives Collection page. Titles will be available via the Journals page tomorrow and added to the Catalogue mid-January.
Deirdre
New full text journals added to Academic OneFile this month:
• Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology
• Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• Australian Journal of Engineering Education
• Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering
• Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering
• Australian Journal of Structural Engineering
• Australian Journal of Water Resources
• Automated Experimentation
• Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology
• Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society – Simon Stevin
• Chronic Disease Notes & Reports
• Communications and Network
• Energy and Power Engineering
• Engineering
• Experimental & Translational Stroke Medicine
• Health
• iBusiness
• Intelligent Information Management
• Journal of the Professional Lawyer
• Journal of Visual Literacy International
• Journal of Financial Management & Analysis
• Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications
• Marine Resource Economics
• Natural Science
• Positioning
• Transport Engineering in Australia
Will be available via the Journals page later this month and the Catalogue early next year.
Deirdre