What can the Library do for you?

This guide provides easy pathways to UNE’s vast online resources and shows how the Library can help you with your studies.

Library Services

• Library Services for External Students
• Borrowing Privileges
• Renewing a Loan and Email Reminders
• Inter Library Loans and Document Delivery
• Online Forms
• Borrowing from other Australian University libraries

What can we do to help you?

Contact the Faculty and Liaison Librarians to talk to us or make an appointment by telephone or email. Faculty and Liaison Librarians can:

• provide advice about library research and literature reviews
• inform you about the appropriate databases for your subject area
• search for you in pay-per-view databases like British Education Index
• advise you on Inter Library Loans and reciprocal borrowing at other universities
• familiarise you with the layout and procedures of the University Library
• assist you to use EndNote

Theses and eSKILLS Plus

eSKILLS Plus is the Library's online program so postgraduate students can improve study and career-related skills. eSKILLS Plus includes tutorials on subjects such as using the Web for research, finding theses, writing your literature review, writing for publication and conference presentations.

• Research guides for finding the best journal databases for your topic
• Genamics JournalSeek for journal abbreviations and their full titles
• All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
• CSA’s list of journals and their abbreviations for the Biological Sciences
• Tutorial on journal quality, ARC draft research journal rankings and the ERA Journal Access Tool from Deakin University
• ALPN (Australian Law Postgraduate Network)
• ARO Australian Research Online, the National Library of Australia's tool to search across Australian research outputs
• Finding theses is a tutorial including links to Proquest Dissertation Express where you can purchase United States theses. UNE’s ProQuest subscription includes 30,000 full-text dissertations.
• The UNE Referencing Guide and ASO Fact Sheets on referencing and writing essays, reviews, and reports.
• EndNote tutorial and EndNote handouts and FAQs
• Microsoft Word for thesis writing for Word 2003 and Word 2007
• The Oak Law Project’s Copyright guide for research students: What you need to know about copyright before depositing your electronic thesis in an online repository
• Higher degree research at UNE, research services and their policies and forms
• UNE Printery and binding and copying charges
• e-publications@une: UNE’s digital repository for UNE research publications and theses

Advanced skills for researchers

• Module 1 Using the internet for research (1.5 hours)
• Module 2 Advanced searching of journal indexes (2 hours)
• Module 3 Citation indexes (1.5 hours)
• Module 4 EndNote Basics 1: Developing your library of references (2 hours)
• Module 5 EndNote Basics 2: Inserting citations into Word documents (1.5 hours)

A timetable and descriptions of the classes are here. You can book online or telephone the Service Desk on 02 6773 2458. If you are unable to attend the classes there are online tutorials in eSKILLS Plus.

Further Information