ALIA West
July 2006
Walk-in access to Curtin Library's electronic journals
Library & Information Service
In an exciting new initiative, members of the public can now freely access electronic journal articles through selected Curtin Library's databases. This access is available in all library buildings at Bentley and other Curtin campuses. Walk-in users include community borrowers, alumni, reciprocal borrowers from other WA universities, and other visitors.
Walk-in users must first register with the Library in order to use library computers. Reciprocal borrowers, however, can login via the WA Universities e-Trust authentication. Alumni borrowers can either use walk-in access or if they wish to use the full services available to them (library borrowing reference services, document delivery services and remote access to the Proquest database) they must register with Alumni Relations and pay a fee to the library.
Databases that are accessible through this initiative include full text databases ProQuest, ScienceDirect , Project Muse and Wiley InterScience. Abstracting and indexing databases include Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) and IEEE Xplore. From the Library website, a separate A-Z list of databases has been created for onsite use, thus clients can view all accessible databases at a glance.
Walk-in users can access all Curtin, Edith Cowan, Murdoch and UWA web pages. In addition, once logged on, reciprocal borrowers can access their own institutions' databases by ezproxy. External websites, such as Google or hotmail, are not accessible.
Software and network printing available on library computers is now available to all walk-in and reciprocal library users.
Diana Blackwood
Sue Grey-Smith
Senior Librarians
Research Services
Curtin Library and Information Service
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