ClinicalKey

ClinicalKey provides fast discovery from the largest collection of medical resource in every medical and surgical specialty, and has intuitive searching that understands terminologies and synonyms used within Australian practice. It includes local content and all MEDLINE abstracts. It’s powered by authoritative peer-reviewed, evidence-based medical and surgical content from Elsevier, giving physicians the most current, accurate and trustworthy answers with just one search. No more wasting time searching multiple resources!

Trial ends 16th June 2013 

Have you worn yourself out trying to find a vacant computer in the Libraries at UTAS?
Have a look here to see where you will find one vacant in all the UTAS Libraries.

UTAS Library database trial – ends 25th May 2013

Material ConneXion is the world’s largest resource of innovative, advanced and sustainable materials. A global team of material scientists, specialists and designers research materials for all design disciplines. Their online Library houses over 7,000 materials in eight categories. The content provided is complete enough to satisfy an engineer or scientist who is expert in materials, yet user-friendly enough to benefit the architect and designer who is not.

UTAS Library database trial – ends 10th June 2013

Art Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,0000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers …

Other UTAS Library Database trials

New Library Management System (LMS)

Implementation of a new LMS has given us the opportunity to review some of the user functions and our borrowing rules.

What’s new?

• Track your borrowing history: you can choose this function or leave it
• The book you want is on loan?  Now you can recall it yourself
• Borrowing quotas and durations extended for most borrowers

To see what else is new, ask at any UTAS Library.

UTAS Library is supporting the ABC Giving Tree program again this year.  The ABC Giving Tree program began life in 1988 as a small pine tree in Hobart’s ABC foyer where presenter Ric Paterson urged listeners to leave a few toys for children in need at Christmas.  Nearly 25 years on and the ABC Giving Tree has snowballed into Tasmania’s largest Christmas charity.  Donations are divided amongst Tasmanian charities to be handed out across the state to those who need them at Christmas.

The Launceston Campus and Morris Miller libraries are drop off points for UTAS donations – donations will be collected on 14 December.  Please do not giftwrap donated items. Further information, including how to make a cash donation, at http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/10/25/3047596.htm

From today through 20 September, 2012, all students, faculty, and staff can access Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video – Access on campus now.  Off-campus access available from the 29th August.

Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video is an extensive video collection assembled in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more. Developed through an exclusive partnership with Healthy Learning, the world’s leading producer of sports medicine videos, the collection features an array of internationally renowned physicians, exercise scientists, certified athletic trainers, physical therapists, registered dieticians, sport psychologists, personal trainers, and health/wellness experts who share information, ideas, and insights on the principles, techniques, and modalities of modern exercise science and sports medicine.

Please Note: the collection is made up of demonstrations and lectures/presentations. By default, the “Browse Videos” page is filtered to only show videos that have a demonstration element. Clearing this filter will show you all of the videos, including those without demonstrations.

Congratulations to our winners

Thomas De Hoog $100.00 Co-op Bookshop Voucher
Mandhi Allen $50.00 Co-op Bookshop Voucher
William Newham $50.00 Co-op Bookshop Voucher

Thank you to all who participated in our Borrowing Rules Survey, we had in excess of 2000 responses and these responses have been most helpful to our Borrowing Rules Review.

As a result of the review there will be some changes to Borrowing Rules, these changes will be introduced late in 2012.

Over the break, contractors have been making changes to the Launceston Campus Library. These are to prepare us for the introduction of 24/7 opening from early in Semester 2, 2012. Swipe card access, security phone and cameras and a water chiller are all currently being installed. Stay tuned for more information.

EBSCO have advised that they are currently experiencing some issues with EBSCOhost & EBSCOadmin which are preventing access.

These are expected to be resolved within the next hour, and we will let you know when they have been fixed.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.