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DISCOVERING LIBRARY RESEARCH COLLECTIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Maureen Couacaud Acting Faculty Librarian: Faculty of Business & Law What’s being covered • • • • • ECU Library Collections & Special Collections ECU Library databases Resources held by other libraries Theses Document Delivery & inter-library loans Special Collections • ABS collection [print] JOO pre-dating online collection • ERIC Documents (ED’s) [microfiche ] MTL pre-dating online collection • May O'Brien Collection [print] MTL -aboriginal education in WA • (WATCC) WATeaching and Curriculum Collection [print] MTL -items used in WAeducation • OPIE Collection of Children’s Literature [microfiche] MTL- 20,000 items • History of Nursing [microfiche] JOO - education and profession 15th century - early 20th century • Western Books on Asia: Japan [microfiche] MTL - 3000 volumes, 16th century &-W War II • Goodall Collection [print] JOO -collection of ecology and botany research ECU Library’s books, multimedia collection etc. • >450,000 titles • >650,000 volumes • Books – Print collection – e-books • • • • • EBL PsycBOOKS Emerald books Safari business others …Books @Ovid etc • Multi-media • DVDs, music, sheet music Journals Collection • 83,951 journal titles (mainly online) • Types of Subscriptions - Individual titles - Publisher packages - Emerald, Cambridge journals online, Sage journals, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink , Oxford journals, Lawbooks journals online - Non-publisher (aggregated service) - ProQuest, MEDlline, Project Muse, JSTOR arts and sciences collection, HeinOnline & Westlaw journals & law reviews Finding information on a topic, author , publication, etc. LIBRARY DATABASES Peer-reviewed / refereed? Subject specialist databases Must use resources Find recommended databases through the SUBJECT GUIDES & A-Z Make and appointment with your subject librarian for a refresher! • Bibliographic e.g. Medline, PsycInfo • Data e.g. FinAnalysis, Mergent, ABS • Media files e.g. TV news, Naxos Library One Search – Quick overview of the what’s held in FT @ECU – Finds individual journal articles, books & ebooks – Coverage • participating publishers http://www.serialssolutions.com/summon-contentparticipants/ • compatibility issues with databases Complex searches accounting AND standards AND (Australian OR ifrs) RSS RESEARCH oriented databases • Citation indexes – e.g. ISI Web of Science & Scopus • Journal Citation Reports ISI Web of Science •Citation index •Peer-reviewed •10,000 titles • JCR Science & Technology >7,300 titles • JCR Social Sciences >2,300 titles Scopus • Citation index • Nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, – – – – 16,500 peer-reviewed journals (inc > 1,200 Open Access journals) 600 trade publications 350 book series Extensive conference coverage (3.6 million conference papers) News • Factiva – >28,000 sources from more than 157 countries in 23 languages, • TV News (Australian) • ProQuest – NY Times, Wall Street Journal • E-Library Australasia Standards • Standards Australia • IEEE Standards (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ) • eIRFS – consolidated edition of the International Financial Reporting Standards – International Accounting Standards and Interpretations – accompanying documents Law Collection • • • • • Law Dictionaries & encyclopaedias Australian Legislation Case Law Commentary Journal articles – HeinOnline – Westlaw Australian content – APA-FT – AGIS – A+ Education ++ many more Country data/statistics • • • • • ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) GMID (Global market information database) Marketline Data catalogue (World Bank) CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online – Ciao atlas of country data (EIU) Theses • ECU Library catalogue • ProQuest Digital Dissertations view – Doctoral dissertations & Masters theses – International coverage of 2.4 million – Searchable by author, title, topic • ADT (Australian Digital Theses) view – Superseded by Australian Research Online http://research.nla.gov.au/ by the end September 2010 ECU is already in the process of doing this. – At ECU, all existing ADT content to Research Online http://ro.ecu.edu.au – The National Library’s new search engine Trove will be the new thesis portal. Additional information is available at The Future of the ADT • Others – e.g.NDLT (Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations) view Other resources • Other WA universities • Libraries Austr http://library.ecu.edu.au/ – Joint catalogue of Australian libraries – Links: http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/databases.html Through About Us button .g OCLC WorldCat, Library of Congress, British Library • Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/ or http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/ Digital collections including Music, Pictures, Oral history, Maps, Manuscripts • Google & Google Scholar Set preferences to search ECU Library’s collection Document Delivery - no need to limit yourself to what’s held at ECU Library - service is free of charge and is designed to support University teaching, learning and research. It operates according to our document delivery policies Items not held at ECU – (through the catalogue) Inter-campus loans – through the catalogue – External students are also able to request a copy of a chapter (online form available through the External Library page) Summary • • • • • ECU Library Collections & Special Collections ECU Library databases Resources held by other libraries Theses Document Delivery & inter-library loans