Referencing Support Services (Fremantle Campus)

What has it been like using Notre Dame’s referencing guide as part of your studies or teaching ? We want to know!

The Library is evaluating this referencing guide and we’d like to learn about the student and staff experience in using the guide. In 2015, the Referencing Guide received 44,000 hits on the home page alone, , and 175,000 hits on all pages combined. So although we know it’s being well used, we’d love to know what could be improved, what are we missing, what are we doing well?

We are currently recruiting for focus groups (6-8 participants, informal discussion) which will take place on campus, mainly during the week of April 18 (Week 8).

Coffee and donuts will be provided, and discussion will take less than one hour. All contributions will be made anonymous.

Interested students or staff should call past one of the Fremantle Campus Libraries to collect the Participant Information Sheet and the Consent form or check their my.nd.edu.au email for copies of these forms which were sent to all Fremantle students and staff on 4th April 2016.

 

Thank you for helping to improve our services.

New Reference Collection

The Library has begun acquiring additional digital dictionaries and encyclopedias on the Gale database platform. The Gale Virtual Reference Library offers high quality encyclopedias and dictionaries which provide an excellent starting place for your research.

The initial acquistion of titles is below. We will be acquiring more in the coming months as we build this collection. Gale Virtual Reference Library offers more in-depth articles and information than the Credo Reference Library.

Access is via the Gale entry on the Databases page of our website.

Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy 2009
Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture 2004
Encyclopedia of Language and Education , 2nd ed. 2008
Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia 2009
Special Education: A Reference Book for Policy and Curriculum Development 2009
Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources 2006

Managing Web Resources For Research

iCyte is a free, collaborative online research tool that organizes information and web pages. It enebales you to save, tag, annotate and manage virtually any web content.

Visible within the browser toolbar, iCyte provides one-click saving of text, pictures, articles and entire web pages for later re-use – even if the information or page has been removed or changed.

iCyte integrates with social media and bookmarking sites, including Facebook, MySpace,
Twitter, Digg, Technorati and Stumbleupon. This integration features enables you to share a cyte or an entire project via any one of these social networks. Likewise iCyte widgets are designed to make it fast and simple to embed a cyte or shared project directly into your own blog or wiki.

iCyte is available now for download at here.