We now have access to the New Zealand History Collection from Bridget Williams Books (BWB) until 31/3/2021.

Growing to include 85 works, with more to come, this collection features numerous acclaimed New Zealand histories and biographies. Authors include Judith Binney, Atholl Anderson, Aroha Harris, Melissa Matutina Williams, James Belich, Vincent O’Malley, Tony Ballantyne, Jessie Munro and many more.

The Collection can be accessed here

A list of the titles included is here

Individual titles are in the library catalogue and will be available to MultiSearch very soon.

Please promote this resource to academics and students, as the subscription would continue if this collection shows good usage across UC.

We have trial access to SciFinder-n — the most chemistry relevant search engine in the academic research community — until 12/31/2020. 

Users with a current SciFinder username and password will be able to log into SciFinder-n here:

http://ezproxy.canterbury.ac.nz/login?url=https://scifinder-n.cas.org

New users will have to register using the following registration URL before logging into SciFinder-n:

http://ezproxy.canterbury.ac.nz/login?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=D62BDD82-86F3-F00A-111D-E2F240935D16

A quick follow up to Tim’s post on CounterCulture this Tuesday, if subject librarians have any print high demand items required to support online teaching in semester 2,  but are unable to find matched eBooks,  please send the list to  acquisitions@libr.canterbury.ac.nz by next Thursday (9^th April). We will pass them through as a batch to relevant publishers. A Reminder: it’s likely not all the eBooks we requested will be available due to various reasons.

A trial of Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education has been set up until 30/04/2020.

With over 440 articles and summaries available, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education provides in-depth overviews of the major areas of research and will continue to grow with the field over time. All articles are peer-reviewed and regularly updated.

To support UC’s learning, teaching and research needs, we have now opened up 2 new packages in Kanopy: Indigenous Studies (728 videos) and Literature (601 videos)

Indigenous Studies package title list

Literature package title list

So far we have access to 20 subject packages with over 7,600 videos in Kanopy, including:

1. Art & Artists
2. Classic Cinema
3. Computer Science and Technology
4. Documentaries
5. Early Film
6. Ethnicity & Identity
7. Film Studies
8. Health & Wellness
9. Historical Perspectives
10. Indigenous Studies
11. K-12 Lessons
12. LGBTQ Stories
13. Literature
14. Media & Popular Culture
15. Music
16. Politics & Current Affairs
17. Science, Nature & Technology
18. Teacher Education Development
19. Women & Society
20. World Cinema

Individual video bibliographical records are available in both the Catalogue and MultiSearch.

For the 4th consecutive year in a row, the library is doing a T&F EBA eBook program in 2020. With EBA, our students and staff can access 776  recently published T&F eBooks across a wide range of subjects, about half of them are engineering eBooks published in 2019 from ENGnetBASE. This EBA program will last 12 months. At the end of 2020, based on the usage, we will select and purchase those titles that best support UC’s teaching and research up to the amount we pre-paid.

All the eBooks in the T&F EBA program are DRM free, unlimited, multiuser access. Individual eBook bibliographical records are available in both the Catalogue and MultiSearch.

 T&F 2020 EBA title list

One new subject — International Relations — is just added to our existing Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) collections. It offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on the study of foreign affairs and political interaction between states. It is purchased with perpetual access and any forthcoming articles to this module will also be included.

So far UC has access to 11 subject areas in OBO: Anthropology, Art History, Chinese Studies, Classics, Criminology, Education, Islamic Studies, International Relations, Management, Philosophy, Renaissance and Reformation.

OBO Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable. Contains a “My OBO” function that allows users to create personalized bibliographies of individual citations from different bibliographies.

Link to access:

International relations

Trial access to 20 journals in the Business & Management Collection via Henry Stewart Talks database is now live until 15^th Nov. Content includes banking, marketing, digital business and management, supply chain and logistics, PR and communications, risk management, healthcare management and cybersecurity.

My Collection is Springer’s new evidence based model for eBooks. The Library has purchased the Springer Education and Computer Science My Collection 2019 which gives us access to all 2019, 2018 and 2017 Springer ebooks in these 2 subject collections for 12 months by only paying 30% of their 2019 collection price. After 12 months Springer will provide us detailed data usage reports, and we will then select and purchase only the most relevant titles with continuing access rights up to the amount we prepay. This new eBook model should overcome the restrictions of Springer’s current policy of only selling packages and not allowing individual eBook purchases.

All those eBooks (close to 4,900 titles) are DRM free, unlimited, multiuser access. Individual eBook bibliographical records are available in both the Catalogue and MultiSearch.

Springer Education My Collection 2019 title list

Springer Computer Science My Collection 2019 title list

We now have access to The Texts Collection from Bridget Williams Books (BWB) until 31/3/2020. There are 75 of these short book titles in the package, all with NZ authors or a NZ topic focus. The publisher plans to add new books in future.

The title list is here and individual titles are available in both MultiSearch and the library catalogue.

Please promote this resource to academic and students, as the subscription may continue if this collection shows good usage across UC.