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Contents

UNE Exam Papers Online
Library Book Funds for Targeted Research Areas
Web of Science's Backset Extended
Current Alerts on Current Contents Connect
What's New - Arts
What's New - EBL
What's New - EHPS
Earlier Issues
Your Contacts at Dixson Library

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UNE Exam Papers Online

All publicly available UNE exam papers from first semester 1999 to second semester 2002 are now available online to all students and staff of the UNE. First semester 2003 papers will be added as soon as the Library receives copies.

One of our most popular services with students has been the access the Library has provided to past exam papers. Several sets of bound exam papers, one in the Reserve Collection, have been maintained to guarantee access to on-campus students. A request from an external/off-campus student for a Past Exam Papers Set obtained all publicly available exams in a given subject which had been set during the last three years.


While access was good, there were delays and Library staff time involved. Now, exam papers can be imaged as soon as they arrive in the Library, indexed in the Exam Papers Online system and made immediately available to the UNE community of staff and students. While copies will still be produced on demand for students with disabilities or for off campus students without internet connectivity, considerable efficiencies have accrued in the Library and especially for our users who now have immediate access to UNE publicly available examination papers.

Exam Papers Online provides numerous facilities for locating and retrieving an exam paper. Searching by Unit Coordinator's Name, Unit Code and Exam Title Key word are available. The assistance of a currently enrolled student is required to see the 'My Exam Papers' feature, the most common form of access for students, as it provides a direct link to a list of exam papers for each of their current units via a single 'click'.

The Exam Papers Online system has been designed so that the web address (URL) for a retrieved exam paper can be cut and pasted into other documents to allow direct access. In this way a link to an exam paper can be seamlessly integrated into an email, an online teaching unit or an individual website, with the end-user able to view the appropriate paper simply by selecting the link and authenticating themselves with their UNE username and password. Exam Papers Online moved from a test environment into production early in March this year. The number of exam papers being viewed grew to an average of around 5,000 downloads each month until June - when the prospect of exams in the near future stimulated interest to the tune of 22,000 exam papers being viewed in that month alone.

The recent implementation of Exam Papers Online brings to fruition a proposal first put forward as a candidate for University funding in 1995. The support of the University Librarian and the Information Technology Directorate in recent times has now enabled the Library to bring this high use material direct to the UNE community. To look at the Exam Papers Online click on the "exam paper" link on the top of the UNE Libraries home page at http://www.une.edu.au/library.


WHAT'S NEW - EHPS

If you are interested in particular areas of health the following free databases are worth a look:

HerbMed: http://www.herbmed.org - this database is limited to herbal medicine, and links back to references in Medline for abstracts.

Ageline: http://research.aarp.org/ageline - aimed primarily at consumers, it indexes books and journal articles on topics concerning people aged 50 and older.

International Digest of Health Legislation: http://www.who.int/idhl - one of the World Health Organisation's quality databases, it not only provides digests of legislation worldwide, but includes web links to sources of the legislation.

Other free databases include HOM-INFORM - http://www.hom-inform.org from the Glasgow Homeopathic Library; the Telemedicine database - http://tie.telemed.org/biblio based at the University of Oregon; the New Zealand listing of Evidence Based Medicine Guidelines - http://www.nzgg.org.nz/library/cfm; and the Canadian Medical Association's Clinical Medicine Guidelines database - http://mdm.ca/cpgsnew/cpgs/index.asp.

Some of these links will soon be incorporated into the Reference Links for Health from our e-resources page.

WHAT'S NEW - EBL

An encyclopedia of macroeconomics / edited by Brian Snowdon and Howard R. Vane. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003, at R339.03/E56. This quality reference work of over 700 pages is aimed at intermediate undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturers in the field of macroeconomics. The entries are arranged alphabetically and are of two types. The short entries have been written by the editors and include definitions of important terms and concepts, brief biographical details of major macroeconomic thinkers and cross-references to other relevant sections of the encyclopedia. The main entries are usually lengthier essays of 1,000 to 1,500 words and have been contributed by over seventy international experts. The topics include details about the major thinkers, macroeconomic theories and different ideological approaches. Each article has a bibliography at its end.

A select bibliography of Australia's foreign relations, 1975-1992 / compiled by Pauline Kerr, David Sullivan and Robin Ward. Canberra: ANU, 1994, at R327.94/K41s. This easy-to-use bibliography covers five main topics in Australia's relations with other countries and each is further subdivided according to geographic region or issue. References are arranged into books and book chapters, articles, working and occasional papers, and official sources. Material from official speeches on Australian foreign policy, Hansard statements and questions, legal documents, unpublished conference and workshop papers, and newspaper and magazine articles are not included. The main topics are: Foreign Relations; Security - Defence, ANZUS and US relations, Australia's regional security, arms control, disarmament and peace; Economics, Trade and Business - global and Asian region; Selected Topics - Third World, human rights, environment, refugees and immigration, aid, international law and United Nations; Foreign Policy Making.

The world economic factbook 2002/2003. 10th ed. London: Euromonitor, 2002, at R330.9049/W927/2002-03. Use this reference book as a tool to find out economic and political information quickly and easily. At the start of the Factbook the 200+ countries are ranked by geographical area, various types of population (elderly, child, urban), birth rate, average household size, GDP (growth rate and per capita), inflation rate, total imports, total exports and tourism receipts. The rest of the book lists countries alphabetically and devotes one page to describing each one's geographical area, currency, location, head of state, head of government, ruling party, political structure, last elections, political risk, international disputes, economy, main industries and energy. A second page supplies statistical data for the period 1999-2001, including inflation, exchange rate, interest rate, GDP, consumption, population, birth rate, death rate, number of households, exports, imports, trading partners and tourism.


 

Library Book Funds for Targeted Research Areas

Postgraduate and academic researchers working in targeted research areas are reminded of library book funding that must be used by the end of September. The targeted research areas are identified in the University's Research and Research Training Management Report, and are listed below. Book purchases to support Higher Degree student research have first priority, but targeted areas with fewer enrolments may request other books to strengthen library research holdings in their field.

  • The funds are for one-off research monographs, not for ongoing commitments such as journal subscriptions.
  • The funds are part of the Library's annual allocation. They can only be used to purchase research monographs to be catalogued and located in the University Library, and not in research centres, offices or other locations.
  • Order forms are on the Library web site at http://www.une.edu.au/library/menu/pdfs/targeted.pdf
  • A full guide to ordering is at http://www.une.edu.au/library/menu/rrtmr.htm including Authorisation of requests.
  • Eligible requestors can put a "hold" on the book and get notification when it is available.
  • All orders must be received by the Library by the end of September to ensure that books are purchased and funds acquitted in 2003.
Targeted Research Area Fund Numbers
Agricultural and Resource Economics 66010
Agricultural Law 66011
Animal and Plant Agriculture 66012
Animal and Plant Genetics 66013
Asian Economy and Environment 66014
Australian/Asian Archaeology and Paleoanthropology 66015
Benchmarking 66016
Clinical and Health Psychology 66017
Communication Studies 66018
Decision and Change Strategies 66019
Educational Management and Leadership 66020
Efficiency and Productivity Analysis 66021
Environmental Dispute Resolution 66022
Environmental Science Management 66023
Health Studies 66024
Heritage Futures 66025
Indigenous Issues 66026
Informatics 66027
Local Government Planning and Development 66028
Marine Science 66029
Maths IT and Science Education 66030
Peace, Security and Civil Care Analysis 66031
Rural and Regional Futures 66032
Rural Health 66033
Southeast Asian Social and Economic EIA 66034
Enquiries may be directed to Jo Leoni, jleoni@pobox.une.edu.au extension 3892

What's New - ARTS

The Oxford dictionary of dance by Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell at R792.803/C8870. With over 2,500 entries, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of its kind, ranging from classical ballet to the cutting edge of modern dance.

Africa: an encyclopedia for students at R960.03/A258. This new 4 volume encyclopedia is a great general undergraduate resource. Topics include countries, regions, geographic features, cultural groups, personalities as well as subjects including body adornment and clothing, oral traditions and writing systems.

The concise Oxford dictionary of archaeology at R930.103/D227c. With over 4,000 entries covering the essential vocabulary for everyday archaeological work in the English language this up-to-date dictionary is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive of its kind. There is coverage of principles, theories, techniques, artefacts, materials, people, places, monuments, equipment and descriptive terms.

The new Fontana dictionary of modern thought edited by Alan Bullock & Stephen Trombley at R032/N532/2000. This fully revised and updated edition is a quality guide to the ideas, discoveries, trends, and movements, which have shaped our world.

SBS atlas of languages : the origin and development of languages throughout the world at R410.3/A881/2003. This revised edition maps in a clear and accessible way the languages in existence at the beginning of the 21st century. Chapters include development and spread of languages, pidgins and creoles, writing systems, language information by continent, glossary of terms and a comprehensive index and bibliography.

Web of Science's Backset Extended

In June of 2002 the staff and students of UNE obtained access to ISI's Web of Science. This initial access included a backset to 1997 as a result of a contribution from the Faculty of the Sciences.

In March of this year the Minister for Education, Science and Training, Dr Brendan Nelson, announced that the Commonwealth Government would commit $3.5 million as a strategic investment to provide Australian researchers with additional access to Web of Science data. These funds, under the Systematic Infrastructure Initiative, made available an extra five years backset. In UNE's case, this has meant that the range of data that is available now commences in 1992.

Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Powerful and efficient, it enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from over 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Web of Science provides over 1.1 million records and more than 23 million cited references per year from more than 230 disciplines.

An August update to the Web of Knowledge search interface which Web of Science uses will allow alerting from any Web of Science search. This option will enable you to create alerts in the Advanced Search button from general searches and cited reference searches.

Current Alerts on Current Contents Connect

Release of version 2 of the Web of Knowledge platform in August 2003 offers advantages to Current Contents Connect users. It makes it possible for you to: develop and manage a personalized journal list via the ISI Web of Knowledge homepage; link to the most recent issues' tables of contents; receive table-of-contents alerts via the ISI Web of Knowledge homepage for journals as they are processed; and access and manage searches easily and more effectively via new alerting functionality.

You will need to set up previously established alerts again or transfer them to version 2 as they have to move from your own PC to the ISI server. Instructions on transferring alerts are available from your Faculty Librarian.

See below for contact details for the Faculty Librarians.

Comments and suggestions about Shelf Life should be directed to the editor, Sandra Rothwell. ext 2069 or email: srotwel@une.edu.au

YOUR CONTACTS AT DIXSON LIBRARY

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Shelf Life Editorial Staff:

    Sandra Rothwell ............. Editor
    Lisa Russell .................... Editorial Assistant and design
    Tracy Cooper ................. Web version
    Peggy McCleneghan ....... Photography

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