1. DISCOVERING LIBRARY RESEARCH COLLECTIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Maureen Couacaud Acting Faculty Librarian: Faculty of Business & Law

2. What’s being covered ECU Library Collections & Special Collections ECU Library databases Resources held by other libraries Theses Document Delivery & inter-library loans

3. Special Collections ABS collection [print] JOO pre-dating online collection ERIC Documents (ED’s) [microfiche ] MTL pre-dating online collection May O'Brien Collection [print] MTL - aboriginal education in WA (WATCC) WA Teaching and Curriculum Collection [print] MTL - items used in WA education OPIE Collection of Children’s Literature [ microfiche] MTL - 20,000 items History of Nursing [microfiche] JOO - education and profession 15th century - early 20th century Western Books on Asia: Japan [microfiche] MTL - 3000 volumes, 16th century &-W War II Goodall Collection [print] JOO - collection of ecology and botany research

4. ECU Library’s books, multimedia collection etc. >450,000 titles >650,000 volumes Books – Print collection – e-books EBL PsycBOOKS Emerald books Safari business others …Books @Ovid etc others … Multi-media DVDs, music, sheet music

5. Journals Collection 83,951 journal titles (mainly online) Types of Subscriptions -Individual titles - Publisher packages -Emerald, Cambridge journals online, Sage journals, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, Oxford journals, Lawbooks journals online -Non-publisher (aggregated service) -ProQuest, MEDlline, Project Muse, JSTOR arts and sciences collection, HeinOnline & Westlaw journals & law reviews

6. LIBRARY DATABASES Finding information on a topic, author, publication, etc.

7. Peer-reviewed / refereed?

8. Subject specialist databases  Must use resources  Find recommended databases through the SUBJECT GUIDES & A-Z  Make and appointment with your subject librarian for a refresher! Bibliographic e.g. Medline, PsycInfo Data e.g. FinAnalysis, Mergent, ABS Media files e.g. TV news, Naxos

9. Library One Search – Quick overview of the what’s held in FT @ECU – Finds individual journal articles, books & e- books – Coverage participating publishers http://www.serialssolutions.com/summon-content- participants/ http://www.serialssolutions.com/summon-content- participants/ compatibility issues with databases Complex searches accounting AND standards AND (Australian OR ifrs)

10. RSS

11. RESEARCH oriented databases Citation indexes – e.g. ISI Web of Science & Scopus Journal Citation Reports

12. ISI Web of Science Citation index Peer-reviewed 10,000 titles

18. JCR Science & Technology >7,300 titles JCR Social Sciences >2,300 titles

21. Scopus Citation index Nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, – 16,500 peer-reviewed journals (inc > 1,200 Open Access journals) – 600 trade publications – 350 book series – Extensive conference coverage (3.6 million conference papers)

24. News Factiva – >28,000 sources from more than 157 countries in 23 languages, TV News (Australian) ProQuest – NY Times, Wall Street Journal E-Library Australasia

25. Standards Standards Australia IEEE Standards (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ) eIRFS – consolidated edition of the International Financial Reporting Standards – International Accounting Standards and Interpretations – accompanying documents

26. Law Collection Law Dictionaries & encyclopaedias Australian Legislation Case Law Commentary Journal articles – HeinOnline – Westlaw

27. Australian content – APA-FT APA-FT – AGIS – A+ Education ++ many more

29. Country data/statistics ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) GMID (Global market information database) Marketline Data catalogue (World Bank) CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online – Ciao atlas of country data (EIU)

30. Theses ECU Library catalogue ProQuest Digital Dissertations view view – Doctoral dissertations & Masters theses – International coverage of 2.4 million – Searchable by author, title, topic ADT (Australian Digital Theses) view view – Superseded by Australian Research Online http://research.nla.gov.au/ by the end September 2010 ECU is already in the process of doing this.http://research.nla.gov.au/ – At ECU, all existing ADT content to Research Online http://ro.ecu.edu.auhttp://ro.ecu.edu.au – The National Library’s new search engine Trove will be the new thesis portal. Additional information is available at The Future of the ADTTrove Others – e.g.NDLT (Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations) viewview

31. Other resources Other WA universities Libraries Austr http://library.ecu.edu.au/ http://library.ecu.edu.au/ – Joint catalogue of Australian libraries – Links: http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/databases.html Links: http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/databases.html Through About Us button.g OCLC WorldCat, Library of Congress, British Library Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/ or http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/ Digital collections including Music, Pictures, Oral history, Maps, Manuscriptshttp://trove.nla.gov.au/http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/ Google & Google Scholar Set preferences to search ECU Library’s collection

32. Document Delivery - no need to limit yourself to what’s held at ECU Library - service is free of charge and is designed to support University teaching, learning and research. It operates according to our document delivery policies  Items not held at ECU – (through the catalogue)  Inter-campus loans – through the catalogue – External students are also able to request a copy of a chapter (online form available through the External Library page)

34. Summary ECU Library Collections & Special Collections ECU Library databases Resources held by other libraries Theses Document Delivery & inter-library loans