Pacific Studies
Looking for a fun and simple guide to statistics? This is the book for you!
Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, New York: Norton, 2013.
This new online tutorial will help you identify and locate books, book chapters, and journal articles. You can test yourself to check your knowledge.
Ben Yagoda says that teaching students to write well may be too ambitious a goal. Instead he aims to improve your writing by eliminating those common errors such as spelling mistakes, poorly chosen words, and train-wreck punctuation. In his book How to Not Write Bad you’ll find lots of helpful advice.
Motivational books are not usually found in university libraries, but one that seems appropriate is How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Academic Writing. Psychologist Paul Silvia discusses specious barriers to writing (can't find the time... need to do more research first... need a better computer... or just waiting for inspiration), and offers motivational tools and practical suggestions for overcoming them.
Do you need to access films and other audiovisual material from the Library collections? Come to the Audiovisual Library and join a 10 minutes tour!
Lost? It does not have to be this way. We are offering tours through the General Library during the first two weeks of Semester 1.
The 13th of November 1850 is the day Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born. To commemorate the 162nd anniversary of his birthday, the Guardian compiled an annotated online gallery of photographs offering momentary glimpses of the Scottish writer's life.
The UNESCO Memory of the World National Committee of New Zealand announced two new inscriptions to the New Zealand documentary heritage register.
The merger of Penguin Books and German-owned Random House has received much media attention in October. In a recent Guardian article, Oliver Wainwright muses about the beauty of Penguin Books.
Come and hear from Associate Professor Alex Holcombe, from the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney, about Open Access and the academic community. His seminar is entitled “Our Scholarship System is Broken. Can Open Access Fix It?”
Would you like some support with your first essay assignments?
"What is wrong with New Zealand novels" is the core question of a research paper written by Pia White, Client Services Librarian at the Architecture Library.
Papers Past contains more than two million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. Latest additions to Papers Past include the New Zealand Herald (1863-1884).
Hika Lite is a te reo Māori learning application for mobile phones, released in partnership with Vodafone NZ for Māori Language Week. It is available as free download for both iPhone and Android mobile.
The Centre for Pacific Studies invites you to "Tuto'atasi - reflecting on 50 years of Samoan independence".
The fiftieth anniversary of Samoan independence is celebrated on 1 June 2012. To mark this occasion the Library is displaying some of our extensive collection of Samoan publications.
The Library now gives access to over 800 short films from the news reel series The March of Time.
The Documentary Edge Festival presents 72 films from New Zealand and around the world from 26 April until 13 May 2012. The special section Arab Spring is in the spotlight of this year's festival.
In less than two weeks New Zealand's largest literary festival will turn Auckland again into a vibrant meeting point for acclaimed writers, readers and thinkers.
Reading ejournals instead of print journals certainly saves a lot of trees, but what about other environmental effects?
From 16th March 2012 the monthly student Internet data allowance will double to 400MBs for undergraduates and to 800MBs for postgrad students.
The Chicago Manual of Style Online is a tremendously useful guide to citations and writing style. An interesting, amusing, and occasionally helpful feature is the monthly Q&A section.
The Arts Information Services team is offering 10 sessions of the undergraduate research skills workshop to Arts students. Book on the Library website under Library workshops, or ask a librarian at the Enquiry Desk in the Genral Library for assistance.
The 19th Century Masterfile now includes more than 6,000 links to the Royal Society Journals.
In July 2011 Google Scholar introduced with Google Scholar Citations a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time. This service has now been made available to everyone.
The following tips may be useful to all researchers interested in Open Access publishing.
OAIster is a union catalogue of millions of digital resources. The freely available and easy to search database can be accessed from this WorldCat web page.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is the port of call for all researchers, authors, publishers, librarians, and readers interested in free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Open Access stands for toll-free online access to scientific and scholarly literature with the aim of ensuring maximum dissemination and rapid availability of research.
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fifth year, is taking place from 24 to 30 October 2011. The Library is hosting three events for University of Auckland staff and postgraduates.
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fifth year, is taking place from 24 to 30 October 2011. The Library is hosting three events for University of Auckland staff and postgraduates.
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was a department of the CIA which monitored international news media for current events reporting. Using the FBIS Daily Reports database, we can search, retrieve, and download English language translations of media reports, speeches, and broadcasts.
Users of Index New Zealand are asked to provide feedback on additional search limit options.
Participate in the survey - and go in the draw to win a $50 voucher by submitting your feedback!
Alexander Street Press produces academic collections of video and primary source materials in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Please register for a free trial.
Informit is a large collection of databases covering many different subjects and disciplines. The focus is on Australian publications, but there is a large amount of material relating to New Zealand and Pacific studies.
We have this available on trial until 15 August.
The Library currently has trial access to Bridgeman Education, a searchable database of over 300,000 images from the Bridgeman Art Library.
Arts Information Services has a NEW Facebook Page!
The current issues of 174 journals will be available on the JSTOR platform from January 2011.
Other new features include new content formats, multimedia files, journal-related news and information and new personalization features.
Five award-winning war photographers examine up-close the suffering and dignity of people affected by war in Our World At War. Accompanied by a second exhibition, Wars of Dignity in the Pacific, in which 22 images of warfare in the Pacific show how over centuries, behaviour and rituals developed to protect women, children and prisoners.
Opens on 11 November.
The time is now to celebrate the potential of our young Pacific people. If you have a creative streak, leadership attributes and are an inspiration to your community, apply for these awards.
New Zealand Post Book Awards finalists are on display in the General Library until September 10, 2010.
Many of the books are by members of the University faculty, including Prof. Dame Anne Salmond, Prof. Dame Judith Binney, Dr Francis Pound, Associate Prof. Len Bell, Alan Wright, Dr. Edward Hanfling, Dr. Deidre Brown and Dr. Selina Tusitala.
A joint venture between news website Scoop and AUT's Pacific Media Centre will see more Pacific news stories available online.
During Māori Expo 2009, Te Tumu Herenga o Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau (University of Auckland Library) participated ...
After seven years' work the first 100 years of the Journal of the Polynesian Society has now been been completely digitised.
Library Week 2009 - Escape, Explore, Discover - starts today.
Niustext is a new database featuring several South Pacific newspapers and other news sources.
We have Niustext available on a trial basis until 11 July.
During Pasifika Festival 2009, the University of Auckland Library participated with other Faculties and services in promoting course and career information at the University marquee. In addition the Library team ran a quiz and provided prizes for those willing to answer some questions on the Pacific
University of the South Pacific theses are now online. The digital collection includes theses from USP, and also from 20 other universities which have produced theses about Pacific topics.
The University of Auckland Library has launched LibrarySearch, the pilot version of a new search environment that simplifies and enhances access to the Library's resources, and which more closely matches current user expectations of web searching. University staff and students are invited to try out the new environment and give us feedback.
The Conch is Calling is an exhibition showcasing emergent Māori and Pacific Island artists. Cross-cultural influences are the central theme in this mixed media exhibition.
George Fraser Gallery 30 October-8 November
Artstation Gallery 29 October-5 November
The latest addition to the Germanica Pacifica series is Following a South Seas Dream: August Engelhardt and the Sonnenorden by Sven Mönter, a PhD candidate with the Anthropology and History Departments.
There will be Library tutorials for ANTHRO 100 on 17th and 19th September. This is to help you with the essay Assignment Two. The tutorial will cover keyword searching in Voyager and an introduction to databases.
Please book online for your regular tutorial time.
There is no 9 o'clock session (as the essay workshop is on at that time). If you would normally attend a 9 o'clock tutorial please book for one of the later ses
The FTV Collection of videos and DVDs is now all catalogued on Voyager. This is the place you should go to search for all videos and DVDs held at the Audiovisual Library. Please do not rely on information found in the FTV database anymore as it is not being updated.
The News Manual, a three-volume book published at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1991, has been relaunched as an online resource to help young people entering the profession and support mid-career journalists wanting to improve their skills.
Did you know that if you access Google Scholar through the Library website when off campus you get free access to full-text material to which the University Library subscribes?
And when on campus, students have access to the University's subscription resources found by Google Scholar at full speed and without traffic counting towards data caps. Try the Library website's Google Scholar page.
SEMINAR TOPIC: "THE CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPING PACIFIC APPROACHES TO EDUCATION RESEARCH"
Presenter Dr. Meaola Toloa
Woolf Fisher Research Centre
Faculty of Education
The University of Auckland
When Friday, 6th June, 2008 – 4.00 to 5.30pm
Where RM U101, EPSOM CAMPUS, Faculty of Education
Directions: Epsom Avenue - Gate 4
NEXT WEEKS Pacific Postgraduate Programme Seminar.
PACIFIC JURISPRUDENCE: THE CASE OF SAMOA
Presenter: Judge A’e’au Semi Epati
When: May 31, 2008 11.00am – 12.00noon
Where: Fale Pasifika, Centre of Pacific Studies, The University of Auckland
Users of Project MUSE articles and Tables of Contents in the recently-launched new format may have noticed an additional feature - "clickable" subject headings for each article, allowing fast and easy connections to related content in Project MUSE.