New Database: Australian Accounting and Auditing Standards (AAAS)

The Australian Accounting and Auditing Standards (AAAS) is an online publication which comprises the following:

* Accounting Interpretations
* Policy Statements
* UIG Interpretations
* RDR Interpretations
* Statements of Accounting Concepts
* AAS Accounting Standards
* AASB Accounting Standards
* RDR AASB Accounting Standards
* Auditing Standards
* Auditing Guidance Statements
* ASAE Standards
* ASRE Standards

AAAS is updated monthly, where applicable.

Highlights Of New Titles Recently Added To The Library Collection

• E-books in academic libraries - A comprehensive look at the best practices in place for planning and managing e-book collections. Check Availability

• Early childhood studies - An introduction to the study of children's worlds and children's lives. Check Availability

• The little black book of hospital medicine - Provides practical, concise, evidence-based information on diagnosis and treatment. Check Availability

• Victims of crime - Utilises the latest research and studies in the areas of violence, abuse, and victims' rights. Check Availability

• Advancing skills in midwifery practice - Provides a guide to continuing professional development needs and meeting the latest Post-Registration and Practice (PREP) requirements. Check Availability

• Manual of equine reproduction - Uses a concise, practical approach in discussing improved therapies and treatments in equine breeding. Check Availability

• Introduction to emergency management - Learn about the discipline of emergency management as it has developed over the past six decades. Check Availability

• Meerreeng-an here is my country - The story of Aboriginal Victoria told through art. Check Availability

• Groundwater resources - Sustainability, management, and restoration. Check Availability

• City of dust : illness, arrogance and 9/11 - A comprehensive and fearless account of the worst environmental disaster in New York City's history. Check Availability

• Anita Bean's sports nutrition for women - Written in a clear and accessible way to appeal directly to active women. Check Availability

• Essentials of dental radiography for dental assistants and hygienists - A student-friendly text that tightly links oral radiological principles with modern practice. Check Availability

The complete list of new titles can be accessed here

Live Chat - reduced hours

The Library's Live Chat service will be running on reduced hours during the upcoming Residential School period (21 June - 11 July) Our operating times will be:

10am - 4.30pm Monday to Friday.

We will resume our extended service (9am-7pm Monday - Thursday) on Monday 11 July 2011.

Search@CSU Library (beta) – scheduled upgrade 12 June

The Library will be implementing an upgrade to the Search@CSU Library service on 12 June between 7.00pm and 12.00am.

Search@CSU Library may not be available during all or part of this period. Alternative services via the Library Catalogue and Journal Databases will still be available:

• Library Catalogue
• Journal Databases
  

Search@CSU Library Feedback - Locating Specific Items

With Search@CSU Library, users no longer need to conduct separate searches of the library catalogue and databases to locate items appropriate to their search topic. Rather than having to search multiple databases, users can find all the resources they need in the one place.

Some Search@CSU Library users have commented that this has saved them a lot of time and made better use of the library's resources. Others have reported that the greater number of search results can make finding specific resources difficult.

However, it is possible to narrow your search results to locate specific items. There are several ways of doing this.

How to narrow your search results in Search@CSU Library to find a specific item

1. Before starting your search, on the Library Homepage :


Click on the 'Books, journals, DVDs & more' button. This excludes individual journal articles from your search results.


2. After performing a search

In this example, the item we're trying to locate, Chemistry International, appears as the first result. If you can't immediately see the item you're looking for, you can use the options under 'Refine My Results' on the left-hand side of the screen to refine your search results by resource type, e.g. 'journals' or 'ejournals', 'books or 'ebooks', campus library, date, and more.

New Database: Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH)

The Australian Medicines Handbook is an up-to-date, comparative online resource providing information about most of the therapeutic drugs marketed in Australia. It is produced jointly by the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT), the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia – and is a required resource for practicing Australian pharmacists.

AMH includes information on indications, precautions, dosage, adverse effects, and drug interactions, and the content includes new drugs, blood products, immunoglobulins, and specialised drugs.

The Handbook includes a set of “Guides” which provide general guidance on prescribing, and specific advice about medication use in special populations such as pregnant women. General issues such as drug availability in Australia, use of drugs in sport, and the reporting of adverse effects are described.

The online Handbook is updated twice yearly (in January and July).

Please note that CSU has only 2 concurrent user licences for this resource.

Student criminology forum 2011

Are you studying criminology, police studies, corrections, law or a related field?

The Australian Institute of Criminology is hosting a free one-day forum for students studying criminology and related disciplines. The forum will give students the chance to hear from some of the Institute's leading criminologists in the areas of drug crime, trafficking, crime prevention, cybercrime and more.

The AIC Student Criminology Forum will be held on Wednesday, 6 July 2011, providing a rare opportunity for students to visit the Institute in Canberra, meet with leading researchers in the fields of crime and criminal justice and share the experience with other students from around Australia.

More information on this forum can be found AIC website

New Database: Embase

The Elsevier Embase database is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database covering: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering and instrumentation. There is also some coverage of nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine.

It includes over 24 million records from more than 7,500 mostly peer-reviewed journals, and from more than 2000 biomedical titles not indexed by MEDLINE. Embase also contains almost 800 conferences and more than 260,000 conference abstracts, drawn primarily from journals and journal supplements published since 2009.

The database provides for five search options:
* Quick
* Advanced
* Drug Name
* Disease Name
* Article Search (for a particular article)

Although full-text is not included within the database, in many cases the ‘View Full Text’ link in bibliographic records can be used to find the full-text in another CSU-subscribed database.

New Database: Informit Business Collection

The Business Collection is an Informit database of full-text material which covers all broad business fields, including: accounting, career development, commercial law, commodities, corporate governance, e-business, economics, employment, human resources, labour, management, marketing, occupational health, taxation, and unions.

Content is sourced from a range of journals, books, and reference materials published by Australasian academic and professional associations, interest groups, and research centres.

Key titles include: Keeping Good Companies, Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Employment Studies, Waste Management and Environment, International Employment Relations Review, Training and Development in Australia, Economic and Labour Relations Review, International Journal of Organisational Behaviour, Management Case Study Journal, Institute of Public Affairs Review, and Economic Round-Up.

Refurbishment of the Thurgoona Learning Commons

The Thurgoona Learning Commons is currently undergoing minor refurbishments to accommodate the Cashier service point.

This will mean a number of key service points and facilities to support students will now be delivered from the one convenient location in the Learning Commons.

Every effort will be made to keep noise and disruption to a minimum, however earplugs are available from the loans desk upon request.

Highlights Of New Titles Recently Added To The Library Collection

BOOKS:

• The documentary moviemaking course - The starter guide to documentary filmmaking. Check Availability

• Forty years of sport and social change, 1968-2008 - To remember is to resist. Check Availability

• Wall Street at war - The secret struggle for the global economy. Check Availability

• Genetic engineering, biofertilisation, soil quality and organic farming - Gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. Check Availability

• Forties fashion - From siren suits to the new look. Check Availability

• Fifty plants that changed the course of history - A beautifully presented guide to the plants that have had the greatest impact on human civilisation. Check Availability

• The Australian stockmarket - A guide for players, planners and procrastinators. Check Availability

• Climate change explored and explained - Provides a comprehensive analysis of climate change science and policies. Check Availability

• Emergency radiology : case review - Uses more than 200 case studies to challenge your knowledge of a full range of topics in emergency radiology. Check Availability

• Stedman's dental dictionary : illustrated - Contains definitions for nearly 16,000 terms relevant to all dental professions. Check Availability

EBOOKS:

• School Success for Kids With ADHD - The ultimate guide to ensuring school success for kids with attention deficits. Check availability

• Continuing professional development - Pathways to leadership in the library and information world. Check Availability

• Business analytics for sales and marketing managers - How to compete in the information age. Check Availability

• Boomers and beyond - Reconsidering the role of libraries. Check Availability

• The growth and development of nurse leaders - Helpful to any nurse or nursing student thinking about their career. Check Availability

• Working with Disney - Interviews with animators, producers, and artists. Check Availability

DVD's

• Alice in wonderland - Check Availability

• Pulp fiction - Check Availability

• Vivienne Westwood - Provides a chronological review of the careers of well-known fashion designers. Check Availability

• Hating Alison Ashley - Check Availability

• Ned Kelly - Check Availablity

The complete list of new titles can be accessed here