PHL Discovery

1. Go to Google Scholar

2. 👉 Note - not every author will have a Google Scholar profile

3. Search for the author of interest. In this example, will use AB Smith

4. At the top of the page, will be User profiles for ab smith

5. The AB Smith you are interested in may be listed (in this example there are multiple AB Smith's so you can find the correct one by looking at their institution and field of research)

6. Click on the AB Smith of interest using the link directly under the User profiles text

7. On the subsequent page, click on the blue Follow button, check the New citations to this author box, and enter your email for alerts

8. You will notice there is also an option to be alerted to new articles by the author. This is an alternative to the Discovery approach discussed further below

9. Haven't found your author this way? An alternative approach 🔽

10. Search Google Scholar for an article by the author (by article title or DOI number - this is the one that starts with 10.)

11. If - when you find the article - the author's name is underlined, you can click it and follow steps 7-8 above

1. Ensure you are logged into Discovery

2. Go to Discovery Advanced Search

3. In the Query Builder, change Keyword to Author (and leave at Begins With). For example: berk

4. In the Query Builder, change the second Keyword field to Affiliation (and leave at Like). For example: deakin

5. Untick the bottom boxes Show full text available only and possibly Show peer reviewed only

6. Do the search and on the resulting page, change Sort by Relevance to Sort by Date (left hand side of page)

7. Click on the My Searches button under the search string

8. On the subsequent page select the Alerts frequency (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)

10. Note As this search is using the author's current affiliation, it will cease to work if they move to another organisation

1. Go to Google Scholar

2. Find article of interest by searching for it by title or DOI number (this is the one that starts with 10.)

3. Click on the Cited By link under the article

4. Click on Create alert (bottom left)

5. You can change the email involved at this stage if you like

6. 👉 As per Step 3, this will only work if the article has already been cited at least once

7. For articles that haven't yet been cited, there is a technical workaround available

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1. Open an Ovid database from either the Discovery Databases page or from the SharePoint Databases page

2. In the database, click on My Account (top middle) and either log in or create an account and be logged in

3. Create your search and once satisfied, click on Save All (on the left under the search lines)

4. On the resulting screen you can give your search a name, add any comments, set the frequency (weekly, monthly etc) and more

5. You will now receive a regular email with any new articles that match your search strategy. You will receive an email even if there are no matches

6. To edit / delete Ovid alerts, click on View Saved (top right-ish) whilst logged in and on the resulting page click on Autoalert (SDI) Searches tab

7. Select the alert and then either Delete (icon top middle) or edit (pencil icon to right of alert) An alert can be deleted by selecting the alert and clickOnce satisfied, click on Save All (on the left under the search lines)

8. 🔔 An Ovid account is also useful to save a search when you need to do something else and come back to it later. At Step 4 above, just change the Type dropdown to either Permanent or Temporary

1. Complete the short online Book borrower form

2. Search for print books

3. For the book you want, click on Place Hold (log in if you aren't already, using your credentials from Step 1)

4. The Library will put the book aside for you to be collected from the Library office in the Ngarnga Centre

5. Alternatively, if you would like the book sent to you via internal mail - at Step 3 click on the Show more options link & provide your delivery details in the Hold notes field

6. If the book in question is currently on loan, then you will be notified when it has been returned

7. If the book you want isn't part of the collection you can:

• See if it's available as an online book
• Request it on interlibrary loan. This isn't available for course texts
• Suggest it as a library purchase. This isn't available for course texts

1. Suggestions for a book purchase can be made by emailing the Library

2. It should be noted that the Library is in general moving away from print to online books

3. Books won't be purchased for course texts. See Course Texts section

4. Print books are sometimes purchased for departments. See Departmental Texts section

1. In many cases, it makes more sense for a print book to be located where it is most likely to be used rather than on the Library shelf

2. If a department is interested in a particular book, they should first see if it is already available online as this may be sufficient

3. If not currently available online, then the department should contact the Library to see if this can be purchased as online books have advantages (available to all staff & both from work and home)

3. If online isn't available and / or the department prefers a print version, then that is possible

4. In terms of funding, the requesting department should generally pay for the book. On occasion, the Library has sufficient funds for this purpose

5. Previously, many books were on extended loan to departments. This is gradually being replaced by permanent location in the department as this avoids certain problems (repeated overdue notices, issues when the departmental borrower leaves the organisation etc)

6. Departmental texts are generally still searchable - the record will say "Not for loan" but will list the department involved just in case anyone else might like to look at it

1. The Library doesn't have the space or budget to purchase books for study

2. Interlibrary loan is not a good option either as the lending library is often reluctant to lend at all or if it does it will only be for short periods as it wants to retain access for its own staff

3. The site Booko is useful as it will search many book sites at once to enable the cheapest purchase

4. Another useful one is Second Hand University Textbooks for Buy, Sell & Swap Australia Only

5. By using these sites, course texts can be bought, used fully during the study period, and then sold second hand aftwards. Potentially a tax deduction could be claimed also