Asian 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 New Zealand Asia Institute, the Waseda Institute for New Zealand Studies, and the Japan Society for New Zealand Studies are hosting a conference to mark the sixtieth anniversary of New Zealand-Japan diplomatic and economic relations.
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?
The Library now has trial access to the North China Herald, a primary source periodical crucial to research in the history of the foreign presence in China during the so-called "treaty-century" (1842-1943).
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.
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now available in Project Muse. It offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities.
The Asian Languages Collection team offers workshops to all students who would like to learn about the Library databases that can help with research on China, Japan and Korea.
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.
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 Library has several new collections in the Archives Unbound database. Three of the new collections are especially relevant to Asian Studies and U.S. Foreign Policy.
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!
The Library has expanded its subscriptions to Brill Online and now provides access to three additional reference works which are relevant to a wide range of academic disciplines.
The Library currently has trial access to Bridgeman Education, a searchable database of over 300,000 images from the Bridgeman Art Library.
A selection of books by the prominent political commentator and activist Tariq Ali is on display in the General Library until Friday April 15, 2011.
The display coincides with Ali’s lecture series “Empire and its futures” to be delivered at the University of Auckland on 17th, 21st and 23rd March.
Arts Information Services has a NEW Facebook Page!
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, The University of Auckland Library presents a display of aspects of Emeritus Professor Nicholas Tarling’s academic achievements, including his contribution to the study of history, especially the history of Southeast Asia. He is the author of over 40 books on politics, history, education, student welfare and the arts. To mark his 80th birthday he will publish his second volume of memoirs Eighty years on.
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.
This display showcases the Asian Languages Collection housed on Level 3 of the General Library.
View the display on Level G of the General Library.
Visit Level 3 to explore the Asian Languages Collection. The Asian Languages Collection Librarians are available for assistance 8.50am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday.
The collection of British Foreign Office papers dealing with China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan is now complete for the period 1949-1980.
The Asian Languages Collection is now organized using the Library of Congress Classification scheme.
Do you know how to use this classification system to locate books in the Asian Languages Collection?
A 30-minute tutorial will be held as follows:
3:00 - 3:30 PM, Monday, 14 June 2010
3:00 - 3:30 PM, Monday, 21 June 2010
3:00 - 3:30 PM, Monday, 28 June 2010
Asian Languages Collection
Level 3, General Library
No booking required
A new online database addresses a crucial period in Chinese history, from the foundation of the People's Republic, in 1949, to the death of Mao, and the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976.
The Library is trialling the China Doctors Masters Dissertations Database (CDMD) until the 4th of December.
The Library is pleased to announce that Haiqing Lin has been appointed to the position of Asian Languages Librarian. Haiqing has been the Chinese Resources Librarian for the last three years and before that had extensive library experience in China with The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies.
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.
Work in progress: the Asian Languages team is improving access to the Asian Languages Collection by reclassifying some items.
The collections listed below will not be able to be used or borrowed between the given dates.
Chinese Reference Dec. 2 – Dec 9, 2008
Japanese Reference Dec. 15 – Dec. 23, 2008
There is full access to other sections of the Collection.
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.
Two new primary source collections, Foreign Office Files for China 1949-1953 and Foreign Office Files for Japan and the Far East 1930-1940 are now available in the Microtexts room.