Do you understand terms like bibliometrics, webometrics and Eigenfactor metrics?

Increasingly metrics are being used as a measure of research impact or research influence of an individual scientist or group. The UQ Library has a web page that gives you all the details about the output and impact factors that are so important for the researcher to understand.

The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative assesses research quality within Australia’s higher education institutions using a range of indicators and other proxies to support the evaluation of research excellence. This will give government, industry, business and the wider community assurance of the excellence of research conducted. It will also provide a national stocktake, by research discipline areas, of research strength against international benchmarks.

One of the indicators used to evaluate Australian research is discipline-specific tiered outlet rankings. The full ERA 2010 Ranked Journal List is now available.

We hope you are enjoying week one of the semester! We have enjoyed seeing many of you in the library already. Remember it is better to spend a bit of time becoming familiar with our resources now rather than waiting until later in the semester when the stress of assignments is looming!

While you are familiarising yourself with the library you will notice that we have renovated over the summer break to accommodate more students. Downstairs we now have additional computer labs and group study rooms to compliment the e-zones. The study rooms include LCD screens and large desks to make group work even more enjoyable!

Your free Student Internet Access account includes a download quota allowance of 400MB per calendar month. Your allowance will be refreshed on the first day of every month and any unused portion from the previous month will be removed from your account.

UQ sites like the library website, myUQ and mySI-net are unmetred and accessing them won’t count against your quota. This also applies to sites that are part of the AARnet network. Whenever you access metered sites like Facebook using computers in the library and elsewhere on the Gatton Campus, it will count against your download quota. So it is important to remember to logout of your Internet Traffic, and before you log off the computer.

You can purchase extra download, if necessary, from the Post Office at UQ Gatton. You can also purchase extra download online.

It’s O (Orientation) Week and Library staff at Gatton Campus would like to wish you a warm welcome to Semester 1, 2010. It doesn’t matter if you are a new student or have studied here for some time, O Week is a good time to get answers to your questions.

The Library can help you with lots of things that can make studying easier. During O Week the Library is holding the following activities:

Library tours - Come along and see what resources are available.
Discovering the Library: Introduction to Library services and training including efficient information research techniques and use of computers.

Also held in the Library during O week will be the following activities:

Student ID Cards: An opportunity to get your Student ID Card

Full details of O Week are available online. Check the time of sessions online and use the event planner to plan your O Week experience.

We look forward to seeing you in the Library soon.

The UQ Library is running a competition for UQ students to create a short video that promotes the library to new students.

First prize $750; second prize $500; third prize: $250.

Videos should be informative and fun and pitched at new UQ undergraduate students who need help finding out about the UQ Library and why it will benefit them.

Videos must abide by the UQ Library Video Competition Terms and Conditions (please note: it is essential that students read and comply with the section Your Own Work and No Breach of the Law).

Entries close 14 February 2010.

Full details are available at Video Competition page.

Are you new to the University? Perhaps you’re returning to study after some time away from the lecture room -or perhaps you would simply like to pick up a few additional tips. Effective research skills will enhance the quality of your academic work.

The Library conducts training to assist students develop these research skills. The following program commences in early March.

Module 1: Friday 12 March - 10am - 1pm

This session discusses UQ resources, borrowing conditions, document delivery and accessing your library record. Then students are introduced to EndNote Bibliographic Software and stepped through setting up a new reference library, manual insertion of references, and searching and sorting your EndNote Library.

Module 2: Friday 19 March - 10am - 1pm

In Searching for Papers 1 learn how to select and search appropriate databases. In EndNote this week find out how to export references from databases, and use EndNote with Word 2007 to insert citations and create a bibliography.

Module 3: Friday 26 March - 10am - 1pm

In Searching for Papers 2 discover Web of Science, cited reference searching, Google Scholar, and alerting services. The final EndNote component looks at how to download PDFs of journal articles and use filters to import references from databases.

If you interested in these modules, please book online.

EndNote X3, for Windows and Macintosh, is now available for download by UQ staff and students.

Detailed information on the new features in version X3 is available from the UQ website.

The Find Full Text function should work much better in version X3, providing that you are working from a computer on campus.

Library computers will have EndNote X3 installed before the end of February, 2010.

Preparations are underway at the Gatton Library for the move of the School of Veterinary Science from the UQ St Lucia Campus to the UQ Gatton Campus in 2010.

Materials (books and journals) to support the School of Veterinary Science will commence being transferred from the Biological Sciences Library on 7 December. During the period 7 December to end of February 2010, the UQ Gatton Library will be open but staff and students will not have access to the collection. Anyone requiring a book or journal will need to ask for the material at the information desk. Library staff will then retrieve the item and it can be read, borrowed and photocopied.

Did you know the Gatton Recreational Reading area has magazines you can borrow? There are a variety of magazines available, including Marie Claire, Madison, Sport, Top Gear and Guitar. In addition, the Library has just commenced new subscriptions to Cleo and New Weekly.