It is alarming to realise that the Millennium celebrations took place nearly ten years ago. Partying like it’s 1999 and worrying about the Y2K bug seem as if they happened only yesterday while, admittedly, also appearing as ancient as bell-bottoms and the Mull of Kintyre. Anyone old enough to be reading this will probably remember when the Millennium was a distant prospect and the year 2000 was a suitable place in which to set futuristic fantasies – that’s right, silver suits, ray guns, food pills and beam me up.

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I have just installed EndNote X3 on my laptop and was very pleasantly surprised to find the whole process (including uninstalling EndNote X2) was very simple and quick! Thanks heaps to my Library colleagues Chris Good and Rob Hallam for crafting a nice little automatic script which runs as the 2nd phase of installing EndNote X3, and configures EndNote to access Massey University's full-text journal content.

The huge advantage that X3 has for off-campus users (or those availing themselves of the wireless network facilities on-campus) is that once a batch of references have been downloaded, a simple command lets EndNote X3 match up the citations with any full-text articles it can find. Much less need now to save the pdf (once located) and then drag and drop it into your EndNote Library - the "Find Full Text" command will do a substantial proportion of the retrieval and linking automatically.

More detailed information about the new features in EndNote X3 is on an earlier news item and Library staff will be updating handouts and training material in the near future. EndNote classes resume at the start of Semester One 2010.

As a researcher your most important asset is your name. Names form the primary link between published works and their creators and are the key aspect of almost all referencing systems. The presence of your name on an article or book allows you to claim credit for the work and to any subsequent citations of it. But how good a job does your name really do in identifying you among the thousands of scholars out there? Do you have the same name as other researchers? Have you worked at a number of different institutions or used more than one form of your name?

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The survey results are in - you told us that Library staff and services are great, but the facilities and equipment could do with improvements...

Thank you to the 2333 Massey University students and staff who completed the recent Library Client Satisfaction survey.

How does Massey compare to other university libraries?

Compared to 40 Australasian university libraries who have recently undertaken this survey, Massey University Library scored in the top 25%.

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Massey Research Online (MRO) is the University’s Institutional Repository of digital copies of published research such as theses, journal articles, conference papers, reports and other peer-reviewed documents. All items in the repository are “full-text” and are publicly available – that is, accessible to all Internet users. An open repository like MRO affords a major opportunity to place academic work in the public domain and to draw attention to it beyond the conventional commercial channels. It may be necessary for you to have a copy of the final version of the article as it was sent to the editor for publication – this is known as the Accepted Manuscript and all authors of articles should get into the habit of holding onto these precious documents.

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