The Library will soon begin the task of digitising our collection of University of Tasmania theses. At first we will digitise the 100 most requested volumes. We have chosen CAVAL’s book scanning service (using a robotic photographic scanner) to do the work. We have recently received the first thesis scanned by CAVAL. The orginal given to CAVAL was a yellowing typed thesis from the 1960s and we are very pleased with the quality of the scanned product. You can see the thesis at http://eprints.utas.edu.au/9287/.
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UTAS Library theses digitilisation project
October 9, 2009UTAS Library’s new eBook library service
September 2, 2009Have you accessed an ebook through the UTAS Library catalogue?
We are currently trialling EBL (Ebook library), which is an innovative ebook library service that allows users to loan for a period of 1-3 days, as well as read ebooks offline using laptops or ebook reading devices.
Read more about this on the UTAS Electronic Resources Blog - and post a comment to let us know what you think!
New! …. Electronic resources blog
July 17, 2009UTAS Library now offers you a blog which will update you with information on electronic resources. In the first instance you will find maintenance and known issues listed but it is also intended to keep you up to date with general eresources information.
Check it out here
Full text access to 17th – 19th century British newspapers
May 4, 2009
17th and 18th century Burney Collection
Newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection helps chart the development of the concept of ‘news’ and ‘newspapers’ and the “free press”.
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers
The collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The Penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.
Newspaper images can be magnified for easier reading or reduced for on screen navigation. You can save and print article images, create links and email them to others.
Please do ask a Liaison Librarian if you would like more assistance in using these new resources.
American Chemical Society
April 27, 2009Access to ACS is currently unavailable due to technical issues. We are working on this and will restore access as soon as possible.
Scopus to provide citation information for ERA
March 4, 2009The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced that Scopus will provide citation information for the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative, Cluster One evaluation. Cluster One will include physical, chemical and earth sciences.
Scopus is a multi-disciplinary citation database indexing peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, book series and patents.
Contact your Liaison Librarian to learn how to make the most of searching in this database or to find out more about metrics used in ranking publications.
ENGINEERING COLLECTION VIA INFORMIT
February 5, 2009Engineering Collection via Informit
This database covers all broad engineering fields, including Civil engineering, Engineering of railroads & roads, Mining & related operations, and Sanitary & municipal engineering as well as specialist engineering areas. The Engineering Collection provides access to full text from a range of journal articles, conference papers, working papers and other reports and is produced in collaboration with Engineers Australia.
Try some of these journals in the Engineering Collection:
• Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering
• Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• Australian Journal of Structural Engineering
• Transport Engineering in Australia
• and many others..
Further information: contact your Liaison Librarian
Try SAFARI eBooks now!
September 25, 2008
Safari Books Online, a collection of IT and programming related ebooks, is available now. The Library subscribes to over 160 titles from your favourite Tech publishers such as O’Reilly, Microsoft, SAMS, JohnWiley, Prentice Hall and others.
You can even search within the fulltext by code fragments.
There are books about Adobe, Java, MySQL, Linux and more!
Access is via the UTAS Library Databases page under “S” for Safari http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/index.html
OR try each book in the Library catalogue https://ipac.lib.utas.edu.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=catalogue#focus
Access is limited to 2 users at a time.
Free Wiley- Blackwell journals for 2008
August 4, 2008Wiley-Blackwell are offering access to these journal free for the rest of 2008.
Click on a title for immediate access.
* Does not include archival access or print version.
“Mega” Ebsco database trial now running
July 22, 2008Until December 2008, UTAS Library clients have access to MegaFile Premier; an impressive array of databases, covering many different disciplines. Many of these databases are full-text, so you also have access to many more electronic journals as well.
Of most interest to UTAS users will be the Academic Search Premier, Health Source, Newspaper Source and Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection; but there is much more to explore, so check out the full list of databases on trial with links.
Our database pages also contain a link to a full list of all Ebsco databases currently available. This includes those on trial until December 2008 and those we already subscribe to.
