Each year as part of International Museum Day (18 May), Museum & Gallery Services Queensland (M&GSQ) coordinates Museums Alight!, an annual week-long celebration that will “shine a light” on the collection items, contemporary art exhibitions, historical venues and stories of museums and galleries in every region of Queensland.
This year’s International Museum Day theme is Museums and Tourism, focusing on what brings local visitors and passing travelers to see Queensland’s museums and galleries.

M&GSQ has linked participating cultural institutions to Google Maps, including location, contact details, opening hours, images of the institution and a link to their profile on the M&GSQ website. The website also features galleries of institutions around Queensland discussing the question ‘What attracts tourists to your venue?’

Find out more about M&GSQ and their work with museums and tourism in Queensland for this year’s Museums Alight! at http://www.magsq.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=458.

The TED website, http://www.ted.com makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from theirarchive are now available, with more added each week.

Use the Search to search for talks on a theme, or browse the list of themes or speakers for a presentation that suits your needs. There are no licensing restrictions: videos can be shown in lectures or posted to Blackboard for students to view.

ABC TV launched iView, a FREE Internet TV service.

ABC iView is an internet broadcasting service which allows for browsing and viewing of a selection of programs from the ABC.

It offers high fidelity, full-screen video for high speed internet users (ADSL2/1.1Mbps connection speeds).

Accessing content via this service may affect the user’s internet service provider download limits.

Check it out at http://www.abc.net.au/iview/ !!!

Do you want to find historical images, articles, cartoons or maps printed in Australian newspapers?

On 25 July 2008, in collaboration with the State and Territory libraries, the National Library of Australia launched the Australian Newspapers Beta service which makes available out-of-copyright digitised Australian newspapers.

This exciting new online service enables the full-text searching of newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s.

The first Australian newspaper, the Sydney Gazette published in Sydney in 1803, is included in the service. The Australian Newspapers Beta service already contains over 90,000 newspaper pages from 1803 onwards, with more pages being added daily. The National Library of Australia welcomes your feedback on the service, and will continue development of the service over the next few months.

Discover the wealth of Australian Newspapers online at the Australian Newspapers Beta service !

This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator, developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator shows the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996.

SCImago is a research group from the University of Granada, Extremadura, Carlos III (Madrid) and Alcalá de Henares, dedicated to information analysis, representation and retrieval by means of visualisation techniques.

To access SCImago go to http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php

This is an OPEN ACCESS resource and it is best used in conjunction with Scopus, a database UQ library has access to.