Using Electronic Resources to enhance teaching & learning Wendy Abbott Associate Director, Customer Services With Peta Hopkins Information Systems Librarian

Seminar Overview The range of electronic resources available Linking electronic resources to subject sites Keeping up to date using alerts and feeds Managing your electronic resources using EndNote

Electronic Resources Over 30,000 electronic journals and newspapers Thousands of electronic books More than a hundred specialised databases Available 24x7 via the internet

How to Access Electronic Resources eJournal Portal Electronic Resources (A-Z List and lists by Faculties) Central Search Library catalogue

Linking electronic resources to subjects Create links to electronic resources so that students can easily access their readings: –Links to articles, book chapters, etc. in Bond full-text electronic resources –Links to articles, book chapters etc. in E-reserve –Links to Library subject resource guides –Links to individual databases –Links to free web sites

What to avoid Avoid loading copies of articles downloaded from the web or from databases into Blackboard (link to the document or resource in its original location) Avoid loading copies of print articles that you have scanned into Blackboard (have the document scanned by the Library and placed in E-reserve and link to it there)

How to create links to electronic resources To create links to articles in databases yourself you can use the link builder tool Send any print articles, chapters etc that you would like scanned to E-Reserve and request the link Ask your Liaison Librarian if you would like help with linking electronic resources

Keeping up-to-date: Alerts Many journals and databases provide services that can help keep you abreast of what is being published. Such alerts include: –Table of Contents –Search Alerts –Citation Alerts Some publishers will send current awareness alerts – digests of important current developments. Alerts are sent in an to your desktop.

Examples of databases providing alerting services Web of Science – TOC, Search Alerts, Citation Alerts. Ebsco (e.g. Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier) – TOC, Search Alerts. Blackwell STM Collection – TOC PsycInfo –Search Alerts CCH – Current Awareness Alerts PubMed – Search Alerts Google – Search Alerts

Keeping up-to-date: RSS feeds RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a feature of certain web services that enables you to subscribe to a “river of news” Sign up for a free news reader to get your feed content in one place: –Bloglines ( –Google Reader ( –Newsgator online ( Many different kinds of websites provide “feeds” that use RSS to alert users of updates.

Keeping up-to-date: RSS RSS feeds can be used to keep up-to-date with a variety of web services, including: –Journals (Table of Contents alerts) –News sites (current events, podcasts, weather) –Online newsletters (e.g. –Event calendars –Image collections –Blogs (weblogs) –Search results –Shared topical bookmarks/favourites –Things happening at Bond University –Many other kinds of sites, e.g. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ( Live demonstration of Bloglines

Manage your electronic resources using EndNote Manage and organise your references and create bibliographies quickly and easily Import your references into your EndNote library from electronic databases Retain full bibliographic details including the internet link (URL) to the full-text whenever that is available

For assistance contact your Liaison Librarian Business, Technology & Sustainable Development Michael Wallace Health Sciences & Medicine Janice Michel or HSS – School of Communication and Media and School of Humanities Brian Boniwell HSS – School of Social Sciences Chris Curtis LawPaul White Gillian Coutinho

Any questions?