Library staff would like to wish all students about to undertake end of semester exams the best of luck. We recognise you have put in a lot of study time.

When you are have finished your exams, you may like to spend some time reading for relaxation. Did you know that the UQ Library at Gatton has a Recreational Reading Collection? Who is your favourite author? The Recreational Reading Collection includes many of the latest releases.

Why don’t you drop into the Library before leaving and pick up something for the holidays?

Students who have DVDs and/or videos on semester loan are reminded that the due date for these items to be returned to the Library is the 17th June 2008. The Library would prefer to avoid imposing penalties on students for failing to remember to return these items.

Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of over 1,900 Oxford books.

UQ Library has recently increased its access to Oxford Scholarship Online and currently provides electronic access to books in the areas of Biology, Business and Management, and Psychology.

The scope and content of the Biology list can be described in general terms as “Ecology and Evolution”, in particular quality in the fields of evolutionary biology and epidemiology. As well as maintaining these strengths, the Biology area continues to expand in the fields of ecology, conservation biology, physiology, animal biology, marine biology and plant science.

To access Oxford Scholarship Online go to - http://library.uq.edu.au/record=e1000190

Postgraduate Students
Gatton Library has lockers available for use. These are situated in the postgraduate area on the lower level of the Library.

Eligible students can borrow a locker for a period of one month.

Please see the staff at the Circulations Desk if you are interested in using a locker.

Publish, not perish: the art & craft of publishing in scholarly journals.

The University of Colorado Libraries have designed an online research tutorial that focus on how to publish in academic journals.

It describes the world of academic publishing, how to to plan and write a paper, how to find the most likely journals to target, defines the “impact factor”, gives you the details of the actual publishing process, the world of Open Access, and how to fit writing papers into an already busy schedule.

This is a useful resource for researchers just beginning to publish and for those who want to update their knowledge of academic publishing.

All students are now permitted after-hours access to the lower level of the Gatton Library, The Centenary Learning Centre.

A roller door has been installed between the levels and students are able to get an after-hours swipe card for access to the lower level including the computer training rooms.

Students interested in after-hours access need make arrangements to get a swipe card at the Library Circulations Desk.

During Semester 1 2008, the Library will be offering document delivery to Undergraduate students, as part of a trial service.

Undergraduate students will be able to request up to a maximum of 15 items per semester through the document delivery service. This may include requests for books or articles that are related to your studies and which are not held at the University of Queensland Library. It may also include requests for journal articles held at Warehouse or at another UQ campus.

Supply time for these requests may vary depending on whether an item is supplied from the UQ collection, or from a non-UQ collection. Supply time for items requested from non-UQ collections will depend on factors such as the local processes of the supplying library and the time that an item will spend in transit from the supplying library to UQ.

Please note: before using this service you will need to go to the loans desk in your branch library and ask staff to enter a home library for you. Contact details are available at:
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/about/branches.html

For more information about the Document Delivery service, please go to:
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/docdeliv/about.html

As part of UQ Graduate Week Celebrations postgraduate students are invited to a presentation about the additional benefits, services and resources available for them at the UQ Library. The session will include tips and tricks for advanced information discovery and information regarding copyright.

When: Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Time: 10am - 10:30am
Presenter: Karen Seymour, Manager, UQ Gatton and Ipswich Libraries
Where: eZone 1, UQ Gatton Library

All Welcome

The UQ Gatton Library invites staff and students to a presentation about UQ eSpace, the University of Queensland’s institutional digital repository for publications, research, and teaching materials.

It provides free, searchable access to openly available UQ research, publications and teaching materials and manages their long-term archiving. This deposit collection of papers showcases UQ’s research output across a range of disciplines and is indexed by Google and Yahoo.

Date: 4th April 2008
Time: 10am - 11am
Where: eZone 1, UQ Gatton Library

Take your research to the world by depositing it in UQ eSpace http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/

All welcome

Help with creating long documents in Word is just a class away. We are offering an advanced class in Microsoft Word 2007 on 16 April. The class covers using Styles, creating headings in Outline view, inserting a Table of Contents, inserting cross references in a document and other issues with creating very long documents. Participants will need to be very confident users of Word. Bookings are essential for this class. For more information and to book in to the Gatton class follow this link http://askit.uq.edu.au/classes.

If you require further information or help with booking, please contact Ask I.T. at Gatton.