Books from the catalogue images

If a book's ISBN does not provide you with an image via Syndetics, there is another option.

1. Go to the web and find a viable image of the book - one that will hopefully have a stable url. 
2. Right click on the book image and Copy image location
3. Go to the Cover Art box of your book entry, select the Other radio button, and paste in the book image url. 
4. Save Book Info.

New for newspapers

We now have access to PressDisplay, an online newspaper database. Please check to see if your LibGuides require updating as a result. I have updated the Newspapers LibGuide and Generic Guide newspaper information.  I have also included PressDisplay in the Generic Guide database links list. Please link your LibGuide newspaper boxes/pages to the Generic Guide so that the information updates automatically in future.

PressDisplay seems to be much less clunky than NewsBank. However PressDisplay only provides access to a 60 day back catalogue of articles. Coverage is excellent - over 1700 newspapers from 92 countries, displayed in their original format and accessible by country, language, or title.

Measuring Research Impact libguide

The Measuring Research Impact libguide has been published. The target audience for this libguide is researchers at JCU.  It covers:

• Why measure impact and issues to be aware of when measuring research impact - on each page of the libguide
• Bibliometrics - what is it?
• Web of Science, Scopus and some other citation databases
• Cited reference searching: tracking publications which cite a central publications, or the publications cited in the central publication
• Journal Evaluation: tools available in Thomson Reuters (including Journal Impact Factor / Journal Citation Reports); Scopus; and other sources grouped by Multidisciplinary, AESS and LBCA
• Researcher Impact: collating research publications and calculating a h-index in Web of Science and Scopus
• Databases for benchmarking performance, including InCites and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities.

APA electronic referencing guide changes web address

The APA Style Guide to Electronic Resource which we have password protected at http://www.jcu.edu.au/intra/journal_access/APA_style_reference.pdf and linked to from Horizon and the APA LibGuide is being moved to a new permanent address here: https://www-internal.jcu.edu.au/libcomp/assist/referencing/JCU_097386

The book listing under the referencing tab in the Generic content boxes guide now has the new address. Please change any lisiting in your guides so that it links to the book link in the Generic content boxes guide.

admin_stuff

If you see a post with the label admin_stuff you probably don't need to pay it too much attention. I have been using this blog as a way of posting from the Libguides FAQ site when I find something helpful as I sometimes have trouble backtracking to information I have used and might want again.

Guide FAQ: How do I get the Last Update to appear in the Footer?

Guide FAQ: How do I get the Last Update to appear in the Footer?

Guide FAQ: How do I remove (or hide or delete) the last update date, guide URL, print guide, RSS update, email alerts, or share links at the top of a guide?

Guide FAQ: How do I remove (or hide or delete) the last update date, guide URL, print guide, RSS update, email alerts, or share links at the top of a guide?