EBL Downloads

Due to a technical issue EBL is currently unavailable for download. However, EBL titles can still be read online. We hope to have this problem rectified soon.

Edit: Problem has now been rectified. If you experience any other issues please let us know.

EBL requests to purchase

EBL has been causing the world of UTAS some confusion, particularly with the ebooks that have mediated access i.e. titles that are viewable for a 5 minute period after which time, the reader is prompted for a request to purchase.

This mediated access provides users with a preview of the ebook to allow the user to determine if a particular title would be useful as part of the UTAS library collection. If a user deems  a title valuable they may request that the library purchases this title. However, until a librarian reviews your suggested purchase, the user is unable to continue reading the title.

11,380 new journal titles

In order to rectify the differences in the E-journals portal and the library catalogue, Resources and Access have loaded 11,380 new serial titles into the catalogue. Some of these records will contain brief information  – some may only contain a title and a URL.

What does this mean for you?

• The catalogue now contains the same titles that are on the ejournals page. You will be able to view which titles we have electronically and in print from one location (catalogue).
• EzProxy needs will be more easily identified, resulting in less access errors.

Due to EzProxy being a manual task – and with the high number of new titles – it will take us some time to identify all the records for EzProxy. If we have not EzProxyied a journal you will see an error message that includes the word ‘EzProxy’. Please report these issues to the librarians and we will arrange to correct them immediately.

Teaching geography & Geography access problems

Electronic access to Teaching geography and Geography currently unavailable. We are working on the problem and hope to have it rectified soon. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Print copies are available.

EBL Ebook purchases

Listed below are the books that we have reviewed and purchased from your suggestions through EBL:

1. Acquisition and Performance of Sports Skills
2. Introduction to Sports Coaching : From Science and Theory to Practice
3. Explaining Reading : A Resource for Teaching Concepts, Skills, and Strategies
4. Managing Pupil Behaviour : Key Issues in Teaching and Learning
5. Social Skills Groups for Children and Adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome : A Step-by-Step Program
6. Fundamental Change : International Handbook of Educational Change
7. Teacher Learning and Development : The Mirror Maze
8. Understanding Sports Coaching : The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice
9. Being Normal is the Only Way To Be : Adolescent Perspectives on Gender and School
10. Assessment for Learning
11. Values Education and Quality Teaching
12. Getting Science : The Teacher’s Guide to Exciting and Painless Primary School Science
13. 1000 Best New Teacher Survival Secrets
14. How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students

Wiley InterScience Site Maintenance

Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted to Wiley electronic resources on Monday 7th September from 6 – 7pm.

Apologies for any inconveniences this may cause.

EBL – Ebook Library

You may notice a higher number of ebooks in our catalogue. We are currently trialling EBL (Ebook library), which is an innovative ebook library service that can allow users to loan for a period of 1-3 days, as well as read ebooks offline using laptops or ebook reading devices.

These ebooks can be accessed in two ways:

1. Directly from the library catalogue; or
2. From the library’s databases page under E for EBL.

What does this mean? It means you will have greater access to electronic information. It is important to note that some titles have immediate complete access to the ebook (fully accessible and loanable), the other titles are mediated access upon request – this means that the titles can be browsed for 5 minutes and can be recommended for purchase. This will help the  library to determine what you, our users, require from our academic resources in the library collection.

For further information about EBL and how to use it, please see our Help sheet available on the databases page.

BMJ Group – website maintenance

BMJ Group’s websites will be unavailable over this weekend (starting Sat 29th Aug) due to disaster recovery testing. The sites should be restored by 3am Monday morning. Websites that will be affected are:

• Careers
• Clinical Evidence
• Best Practice
• Best Health
• BMJ Learning

Journals will not be affected by this outage.

IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR PASSPORT GMID

Euromonitor International’s Passport GMID, is pleased to announce an exciting enhancement with a new feature called MyPages.

MyPages will enable you, as a user, to customise these pages with the content you use most frequently for your day to day research.

It is a completely customisable tool which will allow you to:

1. Create your own customised email alert – by selecting the categories and geographies you are interested in, you will receive an e-alert keeping you up to date with the latest developments.
2. Sign up to our RSS News feed – receive timely updates on new content viewable via iGoogle, Outlook etc. from your customised content.
3. My Home Page - view all your customised content in one place, along with your latest saved searches. Add your preferred landing pages to your My Home page using the Favourites function (the star) for faster access to the main pages you use the most.
4. Saved Research – save your research and queries if you are in a hurry and need to access them later or to share with your colleagues

To be able to take advantage of this new feature the only time you will need to register your details is the next time you click on the Passport GMID link on your library resources page.

Click on New Users Register here to create your own personal profile. If you have already created your own profile, enter your log-in details and you will be prompted to update your details with your university-issued email address and you will then be able to activate your MyPages.

MyPages is your unique homepage where you can manage the content which interests you the most, keeping you up to date with relevant updates, faster access to content enhancing your user experience and knowledge of the database.

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