Anthropology
The Library now has trial access to a number of modules from Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a fully searchable archive of rare and important primary sources chosen by experts and sourced from the world’s leading libraries.
The Anglican newspaper Church and People is available to browse digitally through the John Kinder Theological Library’s Church Papers Online. Church and People was a monthly newspaper from 1946 to 1976 and covered church reports, editorials and articles.
Emeritus Professor of English Albert Wendt was appointed a member of the Order of New Zealand in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Celebrated writer Anita Desai was recently in New Zealand for the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. During her stay she visited the University of Auckland to spend time with the Master of Creative Writing students from the Department of English.
The Chinese Studies module is now available from Oxford Bibliographies Online, providing an authoritative guide to key works in the study of China across all disciplines.
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.
We have one copy of this book in the General Library. The call number is 301.0944 D96Y.
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.
The Library provides access to a new database, the British Academy Publications Online (BAPO). BAPO is a collection of academic monographs and edited volumes from the distinguished British Academy list, made available by Oxford University Press.
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?
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 Library has new subscriptions for a number of journals that are now available through the database JSTOR.
The Library has trial access to new modules for Oxford Bibliographies Online: Anthropology, Linguistics, Political Science, and Sociology. The trial runs until 17 June 2012.
Today marks the 138th anniversary of Howard Carter's (9 May 1874 - 2 March 1939) birthday. The name of the English artist, archaeologist and egyptologist is primarily associated with the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen...
The Library now gives access to over 800 short films from the news reel series The March of Time.
The president of the Archaeological Institute of America has recently argued against Open Access legislation in the From the President column.
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.
The Library has licensed a new Gale database. 19th Century UK Periodicals provides access to invaluable collections of digitised newspapers, magazines and journals, covering the period 1800 to 1900. Major content contributors are the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and other specialist libraries.
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.
Three new collections on Elsdon Best, student media and Antarctic research are now available at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre. The Library provides access to the website through this database connect page.
The American West is a new Library database published by Adam Matthew Digital. The database provides digital access to primary source materials from the Everett D. Graff collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
The Library now provides access to The Vogue Archive, containing the entire run of the U.S. edition of Vogue magazine, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Anthropology & Archaeology Online Journal Archive comprises the backfile collections of a number of influential and well established journals that have published topics of high impact in their fields.
The United States Department of State has recently released volume 19, Part 1 in the Foreign Relations of the United States series.
Volume 19 is part of a subseries that documents the most important issues in foreign policy under the Nixon and Ford presidencies. Volume 19, Part 1, Korea:1969-1972, edited by Daniel J. Lawlor and Erin R. Mahan, covers US foreign policy concerning Korea. The majority of the documents cover security issues
The Library is trialling the Ethnographic Video Online database until the 8th of April. This is a searchable video collection designed as a resource for the study of human culture and behaviour. The scope of the collection is international, and includes seminal works in documentary film, as well as in visual anthropology.
The French intellectual, Claude Levi Strauss, has died at the age of 100.
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.
Complete the Library's Customer Satisfaction Survey before the 28th of August and go in the draw to win a 120GB Apple iPod Classic.
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.
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.
So here it is. www.nzonscreen.com. Online access to full length doccumentaries (e.g. Patu!) and film. Sample episodes of titles such as Spot On, Hudson & Halls, Gloss, Billy T, E Tipu e Rea, etc. Some titles only display excerpts.
The United Nations has provided free online access to the Yearbook of the United Nations.
The second edition of the International Social Sciences Encyclopedia is available online in Gale Virtual Reference Library.
In the First Person is an online index to over 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English, offering keyword searching of more than 700,000 full-text pages from some 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.
RAL is a refereed series dedicated to the five subfields of Anthropology (Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Linguistics and Social Anthropology) with a regional focus on New Zealand, the Pacific, and Australasia.
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
Blackwell Reference Online is a searchable collection of online reference books from Blackwell Publishers,, comprising around 300 works in the humanities and social sciences, business and management.
Each individual title will be added to Voyager, the Library Catalogue, in the future.
The National Library of Australia has made available to the public a pilot search service for historic Australian newspaper articles. The Australian Newspapers Beta service allows access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program.
The beta site will be developed over the rest of the year. Feedback is welcome, and will contribute to the offical site due to be launched in 2009.
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.