Safari Tech Books is an online database of IT books designed to serve reference needs in the areas of information technology, desktop applications and business.

Some recent additions to the database:
802.11 wireless networks: the definitive guide / Matthew Gast
Fundamentals of WiMax / Jeffrey G. Andrews
Wireless communication systems: advanced techniques for signal reception / Xiaodong Wang
J2EE design patterns / William Crawford and Jonathan Kaplan
J2ME in a nutshell / Kim Topley
Computer networks / Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Learning Python / Mark Lutz
Python in a nutshell / Alex Martelli
Unix network programming / W. Richard Stevens
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 complete makeover kit / Geetesh Bajaj and Echo Swinford
Soul of the corporation: how to manage the identity of your company / Hamid Bouchikhi and John R. Kimberley
Peachpit Learning Series Microsoft Windows Vista / Larry Magid and Dwight Silverman

If you have any suggestions for titles to be added to Safari please contact Loretta Atkinson.

The Library has been recently notified that DiscoveryGate has been sold. This affects access to the Beilstein and Gmelin databases. Access to these databases in 2008 is by using the Crossfire Commander software. Web access may return in 2009.

There are currently configuration problems with accessing the Crossfire Commander software. The software will be available as a download from the Library website as soon as the problem is resolved.

If these changes to Beilstein/Gmelin causes immediate problems for you please let us know. Contact Phil Yorke-Barber or Jan Sullivan on 3346 3502.

ITEE RAPID (Researchers and Postgraduates Information Discovery) course

1. Introduction to information searching (18 March, 10am-12noon)
2. Citation indexes and specialised information sources (19 March, 10am-12noon)
3. Using Endnote software to manage your references (20 March, 10am-12noon)
Sessions will be held in the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library,Training Room.

Book by contacting: Loretta Atkinson - or phone: 3346 3504

The Library has received a 15 day trial to the ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Center providing access to more than 28,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 6200 systems. Feedback in evaluating this resource is welcomed.

The IMMAGE database is now available via the Web replacing the networked CD-ROM database. IMMAGE contains abstracts and citations of scientific and engineering literature for the international minerals industry and is produced by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). IMMAGE covers material published from 1979 to the present and contains over 100,000 records, with two to three thousand references being added each year.

IMMAGE coverage:Technical research, development and operating practices for metalliferous and industrial minerals are covered in the fields of:

• Economic Geology
• Mining Technology
• Mineral Processing
• Extractive Metallurgy

Feedback on using the new IMMAGE database is welcomed.