Need help?
Faculty Librarians in each Faculty provide individual help and advice to postgraduate students.
Contact details of Faculty Librarians.
These services are in addition to the services available for undergraduate students. All students studying higher degrees are eligible.
Alerting services and RSS feeds
Borrowing
Document delivery
EndNote
Research and Information Skills
Referencing styles for academic publishing
Study facilities
Word and long documents
Many databases and electronic journals offer a free alerting service that will send results of a search or details of a new issue to your email address. More information on alerts.
Some electronic journals, news services and blogs use RSS feeds to distribute current information. With an RSS reader installed on your computer you can receive RSS feeds from a variety of sources. More information on RSS feeds, how to subscribe to the Curtin University Library Catalogue feeds, and more.
Postgraduate students can borrow 20 items for a loan period of one semester. You can apply at the Enquiries Desk to increase the loan limit. More information on Borrowing.
Document Delivery services are available to postgraduate students. More information on Document Delivery.
Postgraduate students may also find EndNote online tutorials and classes very helpful. More information about EndNote is available and bookings can be made for EndNote classes from Research and Information Skills classes.
In addition to the online Research and Information Skills tutorials and Research and Information Skills classes and tours available to all students, the Mastering Research Resources Seminar series and Researchers Special classes are specifically designed for postgraduate students.
If you are submitting an article to a journal, you will usually find details of the referencing style on the journal's website.
For example, the Oxford University Press journals each have a page of Information for Authors. The publishers Taylor and Francis have Instructions for Authors for each of its titles and Elsevier offer an Author's Gateway with a Guide for Authors for each journal title.
Remember too, that EndNote software contains many styles for individual journal titles which will allow you to easily produce a paper in the required format, and more styles can be found on the EndNote website.
In the Robertson Library the Postgraduate (CUPSA - Curtin University Postgraduate Students' Association) room (Room 412) is located on Level 4. Facilities in this room include comfortable seating, 2 computers, a whiteboard and a photocopier. More details about study facilities in the Robertson Library.
If you are writing a thesis we recommend that you learn how to use the Master Document function in Word. In addition to the online Help in Word there are many useful sites on the web that explain how to create Long Documents in Word.
One recommended site that explains how to use EndNote with Master Documents is from Southern Cross University : Using EndNote with Master Documents.
