Biological Sciences Library

Got a Question?

Justin Clark — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:31:13 +0000

Stuck? Confused? No idea what those numbers mean next to the books or need help finding current research into the muscular/skeletal movements of Polar Bears? Then take advantage of the Ask a Librarian service. That’s the little box on the front of the home page. Just type your question in and one of our ever ready staff will help you out. It’s safe, it’s fun and best of all it’s free!

Olympics: live at the library

Justin Clark — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:44:29 +0000

Planning on staying home during the Olympics because you’re worried that you might miss some of the action? There is now no need to miss all important lectures and tutorials as you can drop into the Biological Sciences Library and watch the action live on the big screen. That’s right the channel 7 Olympics telecast will be screening daily at the Biological Sciences Library. So why not drop in between classes and check out the action.

Late nights are back again!

Justin Clark — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:40:26 +0000

Due to the great success we had last semester with keeping the library open until midnight, and the fact that we might well face a student revolt if we didn’t, we will be continuing with the Midnight openings at the Biological Sciences Library for 2nd semester 2008.
So feel free to come in and make use of the libraries facilities until the wee hours.

A quick note, you cannot book a group room after 9:00pm so if a room is free simply wander in and grab it.

Library training sessions

sohojo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:23:04 +0000

In the first few weeks of the semester, the Biological Sciences Library will be holding training sessions to help with your study. These sessions will be held in eZone 2 (Level 2) of the Library and bookings are not required. The sessions are as follows -

Getting started in a UQ Library - July 23 (Wed) 1-2pm. Click here for class content

Finding Journal Articles for Assignments - July 28 (Mon) 1-2pm; July 30 (Wed) 12-1pm Click here for class content

More Effective Internet Searching - August 1 (Fri) 1-2pm Click here for class content

New library home page, what’s it all about?

Justin Clark — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:25:41 +0000

If you are scratching your head about the new library home page and are not sure how to find things in the library catalogue then we have designed a quick tutorial to help out. It should only take a couple of minutes and is designed to give a very brief overview of a couple of its features.

New home page tutorial

If this doesn’t relieve the confusion then feel free to ask staff at the information desk, email or call us or use the new ask a librarian service featured on the new home page.

Blog it!

Whitehorne Kelly — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:37:01 +0000

Welcome to the Biological Sciences Library blog!

The aim of this blog is to keep everyone up to date with new developments at the library. We’ll also be adding posts about other general UQ happenings. But we don’t like to blog alone! So please feel free to comment on any of our posts. Just keep it clean…..

This post will remain at the top of the blog so that you can provide us with general feedback about the library - what you like; what you don’t like; what confuses the heck out of you…! Entries on more specific topics can be found below (or under Recent Posts).

So, jump into the blog. The water’s fine and we hardly ever bite. Seriously.

*splash*

ETA: Due to a technical hitch, previous comments on this post went missing in the blogosphere. However, we have added previous suggestions (e.g. shade cover for the bike stand) to our modifications list.

Online tutorial on how to publish in scientific journals

Whitehorne Kelly — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:54:18 +0000

Ever wanted to find out more about the process for publishing in scientific journals? The University of Colorado have developed a tutorial called: “Publish, not Perish - The Art and Craft of Publishing in Scientific Journals” which will answer many of your questions.

The tutorial is available at: http://www.publishnotperish.org/intro/

It covers such information as:
* the role of publishing in an academic career
* the essential steps of planning and writing a scholarly paper
* developing a personal publication plan
* comparing and contrasting the different publishing models currently in use
* the types of articles you can write
* the pros and cons of collaborative authoring; and
* the tools and resources a scholarly writer needs to have on hand.

Library opening hours on ANZAC day - Friday 25th April

Whitehorne Kelly — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:35:08 +0000

The biol sciences library will be open from 12 noon -5 p.m. on Friday 25th April.

The following libraries will also be open from 12 noon - 5 p.m. :
Social Sciences and Humanities Library and the eZones in the Duhig Building
Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences & Engineering Library
Fryer Library
Herston Health Sciences Library

All other libraries will be CLOSED.

Biol sciences library opens to midnight!

Whitehorne Kelly — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:32:00 +0000

In response to requests from Library users, the Library will run a pilot of extended hours in one of its branches during 2008. The Biological Sciences Library will remain open until midnight Monday-Friday, as a pilot program during 2008, beginning on 3 March. The pilot will run during semesters 1 and 2 and will be evaluated at the end of the year to determine whether it is to continue. All Library users are welcome to take advantage of this new service.

The Library will operate as usual until 9pm Monday-Thursday and until 5pm on Friday, with Library staff available for assistance and advice. After these times, security will take over the building and remain on site until closing at midnight. Users will have access to all levels of the building and to computers, group rooms, printer/copiers and the autoloan machines to borrow from the BSL collection. There may be some restrictions on use of material from the High Use Collection and laptops will not be available for loan during the extended hours.

If you have any comments about our new opening hours we would love to hear from you!

Australian Veterinary Journal style now available for EndNote within library

Whitehorne Kelly — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:58:56 +0000

As you may know, there are additional output styles for EndNote available for download from the EndNote website:
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp

The Australian Veterinary Journal style has been there for a while. However, to make this easier for you, we’ve downloaded the AVJ style so it will now be available from within EndNote when you are using library computers.

If you have any EndNote queries, please contact your liaison librarian