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

2. 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

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

4. How to Access Electronic Resources
eJournal Portal
Electronic Resources (A-Z List and lists by Faculties)
Central Search
Library catalogue
eJournal Portal to find a particular journal or newspaper title in electronic format and to see what electronic journals there are in a particular subject area?

5. Linking electronic resources to iLearn@Bond 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

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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
Law
Paul White
Gillian Coutinho

14. Any questions?