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School of Applied Sciences1. The schoolThe Faculty of Science is made up of six schools and several faculty centres, some of which are cross-faculty, offering a diverse range of disciplines in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Ten departments from other faculties, primarily the Faculty of Medicine, contribute to science teaching at all levels. There are approximately 3600 students in the Faculty of Science, including over 304 postgraduates, and an academic staff of 295 The faculty conducts undergraduate and postgraduate studies on the Clayton, Gippsland and Peninsula campuses in Australia and at Monash Malaysia. The schools within the faculty are: Applied Sciences and Engineering; Biological Sciences; Chemistry; Geosciences; Mathematical Sciences; and Physics. The School of Applied Sciences and Engineering operates on the Gippsland and Peninsula campuses and offers studies in applied biology, applied chemistry, mathematics and modelling, and resource and environmental management. Amendment history The School of Applied Sciences operates across the Gippsland and Peninsula campuses and offers courses in applied biology, applied chemistry, mathematics and modelling, wine technology and resource and environmental management. The school offers postgraduate studies on the Gippsland campus only. Computing studies towards the science degree are taught by the Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology. Teaching of science units other than Psychology ceased on the Berwick campus at the end of 2000. At the Clayton and Caulfield campuses, science teaching and research is done by the departments of the Science Faculty – Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, Mathematical Sciences, and Materials Science & Physics. The School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine operates across all campuses. The School of Applied Sciences has four sections – Applied Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Peninsula Applied Sciences and the Centre for Environmental Science. Research interests of the school include chemical education, organic chemistry, coal science, biomechanics, plant-animal interactions, science education, environmental science, plant pathology, soil microbiology, food and industrial microbiology, biochemistry of disease, waterways management, biophysical testing of athletes, biodegradation, chemistry of liquid fuels, air quality, computers in mathematical education, number theory, mathematics of games, astronomy, mathematical biology, mathematics education, statistical inference, decision theory and statistical analysis. More information about:
2. General policy statementThe Collection Development Policy covers printed books and journals, electronic resources, multimedia and any other formats acquired for the Library's collection. The Policy is regularly monitored to ensure that the selection and acquisition of new resources supports the teaching and research needs of the faculties and their departments. While every effort is made to meet known information needs some gaps in the collection may develop which need attention, and suggestions to address them are welcome. This may be done through liaison with library staff or, for individual titles, using the recommendation form at lib.monash.edu.au/forms/acquisition-request.doc To ensure that the library provides collection materials to support new courses and subjects, completion of a Library Impact Statement lib.monash.edu.au/forms/impact.doc is required. When establishing new research directions staff are encouraged to liaise with the library about the provision of supporting information resources. All titles listed as prescribed or recommended reading for teaching subjects are acquired as high priority and in multiple copies depending on student enrolment numbers. This is particularly necessary for undergraduate students, who need access to adequate resources on their home campus. Electronic versions of these texts are also provided where possible, so that access is more readily available regardless of location and number of copies held. The inter-campus loan and photocopy services for undergraduates further support the needs of those students. However, the library cannot acquire every item that could conceivably be needed by Monash staff or students. The reciprocal borrowing scheme enables Monash library users to borrow from other university libraries. Post-graduates and staff may also use the document delivery service to obtain books and articles from other libraries in Australia and overseas. 3. The library's collectiona. LocationThe majority of the material purchased by the school to support its teaching in the areas of chemistry, biological sciences and mathematics is located on the Gippsland campus, with smaller collections on the Peninsula and Berwick campuses. Material acquired by the school in the area of wine technology is located at the Peninsula Library. Material of interest to students and staff in the School of Applied Sciences is purchased for the Caulfield and Clayton campuses by the Departments of Biological Science, Chemical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, and Materials Science & Physics within the Faculty of Science. The Faculty of Medicine also purchases material in the areas of biochemistry and microbiology. The Department of Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) also purchases material in the area of history and philosophy of science. Significant resources in the area of environment and ecology are acquired for the School of Geography and Environmental Science (Faculty of Arts), and these are housed in the Matheson Library on the Clayton campus. The departments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences also purchase material in this area. There is a collection of relevant older material on the Caulfield campus, which was formerly the location of the Water Studies Centre. Material purchased via other departments of the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Medicine is generally located at the Hargrave-Andrew Library on the Clayton campus. Items received via the Department of Environmental Science and the Department of Philosophy are in the Matheson library, Clayton campus. b. LanguageGenerally only material in the English language is acquired. c. Classification used.The library’s collection relevant to the School of Applied Sciences is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification. The exception is any resources in the mathematics area received after about 1982 on the Clayton campus. These are classified using the Monash/M.O.S. mathematics classification, a variant of the American Mathematical Society’s Mathematics Subject Classification scheme. d. FormatsNo format is excluded, although in practice the majority of the collection is monographs or serials, both print and electronic. Due to the nature of research in the biological and physical sciences, serial literature is seen as vital and so a high proportion of the library budget is spent on serials. e. Size of the collectionNumber of print serial titles received : The school subscribes to approximately 40 titles and these are located in the Gippsland Library. f. Significant electronic resourcesThe library is purchasing increased numbers of resources in electronic format, including networked or internet databases, fulltext resources, including suites of electronic journals, and CD-ROM databases that are only accessible within a particular Branch library. As a result, an increasing proportion of the budget for library material for the Faculty of Science is spent on these resources. These include Indexing and abstracting services
Fulltext databases / electronic journal suites
Subject gateways
75% of the library materials budget for the Faculty of Science is spent on serials, and 6.5% on electronic resources. g. Coverage of the collectionThe library resources acquired for the school cover in general all areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification in 333, natural resources, and the 500s, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biological science. The major collecting areas for the School of Applied Sciences are detailed below
The Gippsland collection supports the undergraduate curriculum in all areas which are taught on the campus. It is supplemented by an effective inter campus delivery system for materials held on the other campuses. The collection is estimated at 8,000 volumes. The Peninsula collection has strengths in wine technology and viticulture, but also supports general teaching in chemistry, physics, mathematics and natural resources. 4. Other significant Monash collections or resourcesREADS: READS (Regional Electronic Access and Delivery of Serials) is a web-based unmediated current awareness and ‘fast-track’ electronic document delivery service. It provides timely, cost-effective access to the combined journal holdings of the participating University Library collections in chemistry and physics. Participating libraries for the trial period are La Trobe University, Monash University and the University of Melbourne. Articles will be supplied from the collections of the Chemistry Library and Physics Research Library of the University of Melbourne, Borchardt Library of La Trobe University and the Hargrave-Andrew Library of Monash University. Approximately 400 journal titles are included in the pilot READS service. Collections Table(T = teaching level, R = research level)
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