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Using Electronic Resources to enhance teaching & learning

Using Electronic Resources to enhance teaching & learning. Wendy Abbott Associate Director, Customer Services With Peta Hopkins Information Systems Librarian. The range of electronic resources available Linking electronic resources to iLearn@Bond subject sites

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Using Electronic Resources to enhance teaching & learning

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

  2. The range of electronic resources available Linking electronic resources to iLearn@Bond subject sites Keeping up to date using alerts and feeds Managing your electronic resources using EndNote Seminar Overview

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

  4. eJournal Portal Electronic Resources (A-Z List and lists by Faculties) Central Search Library catalogue How to Access Electronic Resources

  5. 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 Linking electronic resources to iLearn@Bond subjects

  6. 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) What to avoid

  7. To create links to articles in databases yourself you can use the link builder tool http://www.bond.edu.au/library/linkbuilder-ilearn.html 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 How to create links to electronic resources

  8. 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 email to your desktop. Keeping up-to-date: Alerts

  9. 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 Examples of databases providingalerting services

  10. 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 (http://www.bloglines.com/) Google Reader (http://reader.google.com) Newsgator online (http://newsgator.com) Many different kinds of websites provide “feeds” that use RSS to alert users of updates. Keeping up-to-date: RSS feeds

  11. 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. www.crikey.com.au,) 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 (www.abs.gov.au) Keeping up-to-date: RSS Live demonstration of Bloglines

  12. 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 Manage your electronic resources using EndNote

  13. For assistance contact your Liaison Librarian

  14. Any questions?

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