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Assyst SP7.5 Upgrade Complete (High Demand requests, etc.)

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I found I had to clear the cache in Chrome before I could log in this morning.

Email from ITS:

Tēnā koutou katoa,

The assyst Upgrade to SP7.5 was successfully completed over the weekend, and both the Technical Portal (https://assist.canterbury.ac.nz/assystweb/) and the Self Service Portal (https://assist.canterbury.ac.nz/) are available to use.

If you encounter any issues accessing assyst following the upgrade, we recommend clearing your browser cache and trying again. A reminder that there is a document available here (https://share.canterbury.ac.nz/ICTServices/itsm/Shared Documents/Assyst Upgrade/Assyst SP7.5 Upgrade/Assyst SP7_5 Upgrade – Training and Reference document.docx) on our SharePoint site which contains Known Issues, FAQs, and details some of the significant changes with comparison screenshots.

If you have any questions, or encounter any issues following this upgrade, please contact myself in the first instance, or the Service Desk if I am unavailable.

Ngā mihi,
Amy Wilson
Service Delivery Consultant
Information Technology Services
University of Canterbury
Christchurch
New Zealand
TEL: +64 (3) 369 3212
EXT: 93212
CELL: 027 499 7949
RM: Dovedale Village, room DD02

Learning, Teaching & Research Support, Professional Reading

Evaluating credibility of sources

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“One Way to Fight Fake News” from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://www.chronicle.com/article/one-way-to-fight-fake-news/241726

Excerpt (emphasis mine):
Why did the fact-checkers prevail where students at a top college  and historians — who, as the report notes, “evaluate sources for a living” — stumbled? They read differently. The students and historians tended to read “vertically,” the report notes, delving deeply into a website in their efforts to determine its credibility. That, the researchers point out, is more or less the approach laid out in many checklists designed to help students use the internet well, which tend to suggest looking at particular features of a website to evaluate its trustworthiness.

The fact checkers, in contrast, read “laterally,” turning to sources beyond the website in question — and not treating them all as being equally reliable, either. They succeeded, the report says, “not because they followed the advice we give to students. They succeeded because they didn’t.” 

Learning, Teaching & Research Support

APA reference for the “Convention on the Rights of the Child”

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Recently I’ve noticed there have been questions from students asking about referencing the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This is a multilateral treaty, and you can find exactly how to reference it on our APA style pages under “Legal Resources (cases, Acts, treaties).”

The direct link is http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/services/ref/apa/legal.shtml#treaties (at least until the Library website changes).

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CHEM 281 Library Quiz

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If you are “client facing,” you may field questions about the CHEM 281 Library Quiz in the next wee while; students need to complete it by 5 p.m. on the 5th May.

Most of their questions are answered on the Chemistry Subject Guide at http://canterbury.libguides.com/chem/chem281-bchm281. This page has my contact details there, and students are most welcome to contact me if they’re still perplexed!

Students may find it easiest get to the Subject Guide page above via the CHEM 281 Learn course, under Assignments/Quizzes
CHEM281-SG-page

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APA referencing style and DOI format

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From March 2017, the APA style editors are recommending the latest DOI format, as recommended by Crossref.

This new new format looks like
https://doi.org/………
(the Library’s APA style pages are updated to this now)

You may recall the old new format, that looks like
http://dx.doi.org/……..

Or the old old format, that looks like
doi:…………..
(and this is what EndNote will output with the APA output style “out of the box”)

All these formats are still valid, so the main thing to tell students is to use one format and stick with it within an assignment.

Link to the posting on the APA Style blog announcing this change.