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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.
Fiona Ward has listed 105 references that record all available published, unpublished and digital material about the history of creative printmaking in New Zealand from 1930 to 2007.
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.
The Oxford English Dictionary has recently announced the launch of the OED Appeals, an online initiative to collaboratively trace the history of English words.
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?
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.
If you happen to find yourself in Paris, Lille, or Toulouse and want to converse with the locals, make your way to the Polyglot Club.
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 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?
Two scholarly journals have recently joined Project Muse: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and The Pushkin Review.
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 German Studies Review (GSR) joined Project Muse and is now accessible through this Library database.
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 provides access to a new collection which has been added to the Archives Unbound database.
The Library provides access to a new database published by Adam Matthew Digital.The First World War: personal experiences contains digitised primary source documents focusing on the lives and experiences of men and women during the First World War.
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.
Literature Online, a desk-top library that provides access to primary and secondary literature, added nearly 400 volumes with more than 1000 individual works from the Penguin Classics series to its collections.
DigiZeitschriften is an archive of journals published in Germany, including some English language material.
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!
This Guide is for artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations who are interested in applying to Creative New Zealand (previously known as Arts Council of New Zealand / Toi Aotearoa) for financial support from the ‘Contestable Funding’ programme. The Guide explains whether Contestable Funding is available to you and your proposed arts project and how to go about applying.
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 is a searchable full-text collection based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography Bibliotheca Americana, containing works about the Americas published from 1500 to the early 1900s.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online concentrates on American and British authors but also includes non-English literatures.
The Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature has recently joined Project MUSE and is now online.
YCGL is dedicated to the publication of theoretically informed research in literary studies with a comparative, intercultural, or interdisciplinary emphasis.
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.
Vaggioli, Felice. 2010. The Maori : a history of the earliest inhabitants of New Zealand. Translated by John Crockett. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.
Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday as the academy honoured one of the Spanish-speaking world's most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once ran for president in his tumultuous homeland.
The Corpus Christianorum is an important scholarly collection of the writings of Christian authors from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The texts are in Latin.
These treasures are far more accessible because now they have subject headings describing the works. It is now much easier to find within this collection the volumes which are commentaries on each book of the bible, and also writings concerning such topics as anger, penance, humility, chastity, riddles, Judaism, saints, cosmology.
The Journal of War and Cultural Studies has a broad but clearly-defined research field: the relationship between war and culture in the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first, primarily in Europe but not excluding other areas involved in conflict, although these will retain a focus on their relationship to Europe.
The latest release of Literature Online includes 24 new full-text journals and 40 new or revised biographies. Enhancements have also been made to the design and functionality of the Literature Online interface.
The MLA has published the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
Herta Muller is the Nobel laureate for literature for 2009.
The French intellectual, Claude Levi Strauss, has died at the age of 100.
Latin American Women Writers will now be available through the Library's website.
Complete the Library's Customer Satisfaction Survey before the 28th of August and go in the draw to win a 120GB Apple iPod Classic.
The winners of the new European Union Prize for Literature were announced by Commissioner Ján Figel.
Latin American Women Writers, South and Southeast Asian Literature, and Caribbean Literature are all part of the Alexander Street Literature Package which enables researchers to explore the literary heritage of diverse cultures from across the globe. The library currently has trial access to these databases which will run until August 1st.
The Persée portal provides free public access to the full text of entire collections of peer-reviewed journals, from the first issue published. The program has become the largest website dedicated to French academic journals in the fields of humanities and social sciences.
Electronic Enlightenment is a collection of letters from eighteenth century writers, thinkers, scientists and politicians and their families, friends, bankers, booksellers, patrons and publishers.
L’Année philologique now has interim records for volumes 1-19 (1924-1948), adding nearly 140,000 references to the online database.
Historic photographs of the Cuban Revolutionary Government have been digitised by Duke University's Special Collections Library and are accessible online.
Are you having difficulty finishing your dissertation? Are you feeling stuck after trying various approaches, or panicky about the entire enterprise? It is unlikely that your cognitive abilities are to blame. More likely, the culprits are anxiety, self-doubt, procrastination, perfectionism, and the thoughts, feelings, and behaviour that accompany these difficulties. This book was written for you.
Miller, A. Finish Your Dissertation Once and for All! Washington: APA, 2009
Do people from OECD countries have the same amount of time for leisure? Not according to the latest OECD report.
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 classical authors Shakespeare, Molière, Racine, Marivaux come in the top places of those dramatists whose plays appear on the French stage. Brecht is among them representing the early 20th century. France's Centre national du théâtre has produced a report showing who is in and who is out among the playwrights.
The Cervantes prize, the Spanish-language equivalent of the Nobel prize for literature, has been awarded to Catalan novelist Juan Marsé for a body of work focusing on the hardships of life in post-civil war Spain.
A panel of three internationally acclaimed authors and experienced literary judges named Filipino author Miguel Syjuco winner of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel Ilustrado, a fictional account of a young Filipino caught within a notorious scandal spanning over the Philippine history.
Brill's New Pauly is an encyclopedia of the ancient world and is now available on the Library's website.
The database Perdita Manuscripts is now available from the Library website. It contains full digital facsimiles of sixteenth and seventeenth century manuscripts.
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.
The clause “Regional languages are part of France’s heritage” will be included in Article 75 of the french constitution.
Cambridge Histories Online features over 250 volumes published since the 1960s, including such important works as The Cambridge Ancient History.
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.
Major new 18th century resource added to the Library's digital collections.