Queen’s Birthday public holiday - Closed

Please note Health Sciences Library will be closed Monday 13th of June 2011.

New books for May 2011

Here is a glimpse at the hottest book releases by month of May 2011. Please click here to view the list.

Latest from Summon - "items in the catalogue" filter is available

Summon has an “Items in the library catalogue” filter available under “Refine your search” section of the toolbar (left hand side).

You can able to e narrow down the search results to find out items in our catalogue by tick in the "item in the library catalog". It is up-to-date and easier to use. Try today. If you need a help please contact your Faculty Liaison Librarians @ Health Sciences library.

Web of Knowledge is not compatible with Internet Explorer 9

In order to view the results using this version of the browsers, users need to turn on the compatibility mode in the browsers or switch to a different browser that is compatible. For example: Firefox 3.5.

Users can enable the compatibility mode in Internet Explorer 9 as follows:

1. Click on Tools menu
2. Click on Compatibility View Settings 3. Type ‘isiknowledge.com’ in the textbox and click on Add

The issue has been reported to the Web of Knowledge development team, however they are unable to give us a timeframe for when the Web of Knowledge platform will be made compatible with Internet Explorer 9.

Latest news - Trove 4.0 now available

The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce the release today of Trove 4.0.Trove now searches across millions of articles from GALE and Informit. These articles are found in a new zone called “journals, articles and datasets”.

University of Sydney library items are also searchable using Trove. Tick “in my libraries” to search our catalogue.

Items that are held at the University of Sydney library will appear on Green box if the user is onsite.

Sydney eScholarship Repository

The Library has implemented unikey authentication on the Sydney eScholoarship Repository.

Sydney eScholarship is an initiative of the University of Sydney Library. Sydney eScholarship is a set of innovative services for the University of Sydney that integrates the management of digital content with new forms of access and scholarly publication.

Sydney eScholarship provides, Sydney eScholarship repository and Sydney Digital Theses.

For visit "Open Access" blog to get latest information.

If you like to archive your thesis electronically and need some help please contact your Faculty Liaison Librarian.

EBL ebooks portal trial

We have access to a new ebook portal, EBL, set up on the trials page. http://sydney.edu.au/library/databases/trial.html and click on EBL (ebooks).

We have access to 350 books for the trial. It requires UniKey login both on- and off-campus.

Please feel free to send your feedback to us using Database Evaluation Form.