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Using Electronic Resources to enhance teaching & learning Wendy Abbott Associate Director, Customer Services With Peta Hopkins Information Systems Librarian Seminar Overview • The range of electronic resources available • Linking electronic resources to iLearn@Bond subject sites • Keeping up to date using alerts and feeds • Managing your electronic resources using EndNote Electronic Resources • Over 30,000 electronic journals and newspapers • Thousands of electronic books • More than a hundred specialised databases • Available 24x7 via the internet How to Access Electronic Resources • eJournal Portal • Electronic Resources (A-Z List and lists by Faculties) • Central Search • Library catalogue Linking electronic resources to iLearn@Bond subjects • Create links to electronic resources so that students can easily access their readings: – Links to articles, book chapters, etc. in Bond full-text electronic resources – Links to articles, book chapters etc. in E-reserve – Links to Library subject resource guides – Links to individual databases – Links to free web sites What to avoid • Avoid loading copies of articles downloaded from the web or from databases into Blackboard (link to the document or resource in its original location) • Avoid loading copies of print articles that you have scanned into Blackboard (have the document scanned by the Library and placed in E-reserve and link to it there) How to create links to electronic resources • To create links to articles in databases yourself you can use the link builder tool http://www.bond.edu.au/library/linkbuilder-ilearn.html • Send any print articles, chapters etc that you would like scanned to E-Reserve and request the link • Ask your Liaison Librarian if you would like help with linking electronic resources Keeping up-to-date: Alerts • Many journals and databases provide services that can help keep you abreast of what is being published. Such alerts include: – Table of Contents – Search Alerts – Citation Alerts • Some publishers will send current awareness alerts – digests of important current developments. • Alerts are sent in an email to your desktop. Examples of databases providing alerting services • Web of Science – TOC, Search Alerts, Citation Alerts. • Ebsco (e.g. Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier) – TOC, Search Alerts. • Blackwell STM Collection – TOC • PsycInfo –Search Alerts • CCH – Current Awareness Alerts • PubMed – Search Alerts • Google – Search Alerts Keeping up-to-date: RSS feeds • RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a feature of certain web services that enables you to subscribe to a “river of news” • Sign up for a free news reader to get your feed content in one place: – Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/) – Google Reader (http://reader.google.com) – Newsgator online (http://newsgator.com) • Many different kinds of websites provide “feeds” that use RSS to alert users of updates. Keeping up-to-date: RSS • RSS feeds can be used to keep up-to-date with a variety of web services, including: – – – – – – – – – – Journals (Table of Contents alerts) News sites (current events, podcasts, weather) Online newsletters (e.g. www.crikey.com.au,) Event calendars Image collections Blogs (weblogs) Search results Shared topical bookmarks/favourites Things happening at Bond University Many other kinds of sites, e.g. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (www.abs.gov.au) Live demonstration of Bloglines Manage your electronic resources using EndNote • Manage and organise your references and create bibliographies quickly and easily • Import your references into your EndNote library from electronic databases • Retain full bibliographic details including the internet link (URL) to the full-text whenever that is available For assistance contact your Liaison Librarian Business, Technology & Sustainable Development Michael Wallace 55951544 Health Sciences & Medicine Janice Michel 55951562 or 55954404 HSS – School of Communication and Media and School of Humanities Brian Boniwell 55953362 HSS – School of Social Sciences Chris Curtis 55953349 Law Paul White 55951520 Gillian Coutinho 55951499 Any questions?