If you have any problems KEEPING TRACK of all the information resources you are collecting for projects/ assignments/ research papers, you might want to try using a software package designed for this purpose.

Come and try either REFWORKS or ENDNOTE at one of the following training sessions:

ENDNOTE EXPRESS:

When: August 5, 2008, 10:00 am to 12:00noon
Where: St Lucia - Graduate Economics & Business Library, eZone

When: September 25, 2008, 10:00 am to 12:00noon
Where: St Lucia - Graduate Economics & Business Library, eZone

REFWORKS TRAINING:

When: August 7, 2008, 10:00 am to 12:00noon
Where: St Lucia - Graduate Economics & Business Library, eZone

Please book your preferred session by going to https://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/index.phtml and selecting either ENDNOTE EXPRESS or REFWORKS TRAINING.

See you there!

The Library has purchased a site-license for the QUOSA software:
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/quosa/

Advantages of QUOSA:
• Downloads multiple PDFs – FAST
• Organizes PDFs into folder trees with links back to EndNote or RefWorks
• Deep searches inside PDFs as every word of the article (not just in the title and abstract) is indexed.

QUOSA can be used when searching PubMed, Ovid Medline, Scopus and the Web of Knowledge databases. QUOSA is integrated with EndNote and RefWorks.

Download the software from http://www.quosa.com/downloads.php
and choose the subscriber version. (Suggestion - do NOT enable startup accelerator )

To learn how to use QUOSA efficiently you can:

Enjoy!

The UQ Office of Research has purchased access to the bibliometric database – Essential Science Indicators.

This database can be used to benchmark research impact by measuring published output and citation rates. Both researchers and research administrators will find the Indicators of interest. It allows to benchmark individual papers, subject categories or institutions against “international average” or an institution or a group of institutions. Also, it allows to place one’s performance within percentiles of publications in the same subject category. The information available in the ESI can be used in management reports, grant applications or CVs.

The ESI is updated every two months and is available from your desktop. (http://library.uq.edu.au/record=e1001810)

Subject categories include Business, Economics, Social Sciences and more.

Thomson representatives (the publishers of ESI) will be at UQ on Thursday 15th May at 9.30 am to demonstrate Essential Science Indicators. The demonstration will be held in the Library conference room (Duhig building, level 1).

Please come and join us!

Unfortunately, the Endnote session scheduled on 26/3/08 has had to be cancelled due to lack of enrolments.

The course planned for 13/5/08 is still on at this stage; if you are interested in learning how to use Endnote for Business, Economics and Tourism projects and assignments, you can book into that class by emailing Jennifer Creese.

Other UQ Library branches are running Endnote classes throughout the semester; you can find out session times and book at https://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/index.phtml.

If none of the class times suit you but you still want to learn how to use Endnote, come along to the Graduate Economics & Business Library and the librarians there can give you a quick session in how to use this software.

Interested in learning about digitising your research for future access?

A seminar will be held Friday 16 November 2007, 9.00am to 12:30pm
at the Library Conference Room, Level 1 Duhig Building.

Morning tea and lunch are included.

Learn about metadata standards; preservation & sustainability; tools, services & software; copyright & licencing issues; housing & access; outsourcing & commercial options and sources of advice and expertise.

Speakers are Andrew Long, Manager, Preservation Standards, National Library of Australia
& Belinda Weaver, Manager, UQ eSpace digitial repository.

RSVP: espace@library.uq.edu.au or tel 07-336 58281

Please find attached a flyer outlining events happening in the Library during Research Week. The library will be conducting a variety of training sessions on topics such as Theses, Advanced Word, Copyright, Web of Science and eSpace in addition to the Scopus demonstrations and the Open Access Seminar which are already outlined below. We hope you enjoy the week!

Forum to be held on Monday 17 September 2007 12.30pm to 5pm
Seminar Room, Level 4, Sustainable Minerals Institute, Sir James Foots Building
The University of Queensland St Lucia campus

Download the program

Program
1.15 – 1.20pm Introduction and Welcome - Professor David Siddle, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), UQ
1:20 – 1:50pm Open Access – Changes in Scholarly Communication, international trends and UQ’s response – Keith Webster, University Librarian and Director of Learning Services, UQ
1:50 – 2:30pm Open access policies, digital repositories and licensing – Anthony Austin and Kylie Pappalardo, QUT
2:30 – 3:00 Panel discussion – experiences of academic publishing and open access Professor Michael Pender, Professor Max Lu, Professor David Adams
3:00 – 3.30 Afternoon Tea
3:30– 3:45 Open Access and the early career researcher – Professor Alan Lawson, UQ
3:45 – 4.20 Open Access and UQeSpace Ms Belinda Weaver, UQ
4:20 – 4.45 Questions
4:45 – 5.00 Summing up and conclusions

The Graduate Business and Economics Library will be running an EndNote workshop on 20 September from 10 am to 12 noon.

EndNote software is used to manage references and create bibliographies for assignments, theses and articles.

During this session you will learn how to:
• set up your own EndNote “library” - a database of all your readings
• input records from databases or the Library catalogue - journal articles, books, conference papers and more
• use EndNote with your word processor to write papers, reading lists and bibliographies.

To book in for a session, please email Jennifer Creese: j.creese@library.uq.edu.au.

Virtual tours of the Graduate Economics and Business Library and the Social Sciences and Humanities Library are available online.

Let your mouse do the walking and find out:

* about the library’s facilities
* how to book lockable desks, single study and group study rooms
* what quarto books are
* which Business and Economics theses are available for loan.