Online Guides and Tutorials

Basic Guides

• Using Voyager, the Library Catalogue - on-line tutorial

• Off-Campus Access to Electronic Resources

Research Guides

• InfoQuest - The Online Guide to Finding Journal Articles.

• Primary, Review and Popular Journals, what are the differences?

• Interpreting References - A guide on how to distinguish between different types of publications, with notes on how to locate them in the library.

• Web of Knowledge and Alerts, how to create alerts for various ISI databases that the library subscribes to — especially Current Contents and Web of Science, the citation database.

• Guide to Finding Theses

• How to find statistical data

Essay/Report Writing Guides

• Referencing - a guide to reference styes recommended by University of Auckland Science Departments.

• The Confused Undergrads Guide to Getting Good Marks in Biology (Prepared for the School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland by Paul Barnett and Emma Marks)

• EndNote - Information on using EndNote (bibliography maker), helpsheets, tutorial times, online tutorial etc.

• Preparing Annotated Bibliographies: try the Writers Handbook or the Online Writing Lab.

• Preparing a Literature Review 

Database Guides

• For guides on database usage refer to the Chemistry Database list on Library website, click on the database name and then scroll to the bottom of the screen for downloadable database help sheets.

• Web of Knowledge and Alerts, how to create alerts for various ISI databases that the library subscribes to — especially Current Contents and Web of Science, the citation database.

File last updated : 16 February, 2009 .
Comments and suggestions to : Sonya Donoghue