The Springer Computer Science Reading Room offers you free access to books and journals in your area of interest.

Bimonthly, new content is added to the Reading Room highlighting a different subject area each month in:

New eBooks via Oxford Scholarship Online:

The digital hand. Volume I. How computers changed the work of American manufacturing, transportation, and retail industries / James W. Cortada
The digital hand. Volume II. How computers changed the work of American financial, telecommunications, media, and entertainment industries / James W. Cortada
The digital hand. Volume III. How computers changed the work of American public sector industries / James W. Cortada

Information technology policy: an international history / Richard Coopey (ed)

The labyrinths of information: challenging the wisdom of systems / Claudio Ciborra

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:

Did you know

• 12 of the “Hot Papers (last two years)” have authors from the University of Queensland
• 269 of the “Highly Cited Papers (last 10 years)” have authors associated with the University of Queensland
• Based on the number of citations in all fields covered, Australia ranks 9th out of 148 countries or territories

(Source: Essential Science Indicators, accessed 17 April 2008)

The University of Queensland Library now has Essential Science Indicators so you can also find out

• who are the most highly cited scientist in your field
• how UQ ranks internationally in your field
• and much more.

Contact Leith Woodall for assistance on using Essential Science Indicators.

Come to a library workshop and find out how to use:

• Endnote to create a personal database of references and to write bibliographies
• Databases in your subject area
• Citation indexes to locate the latest research material

If you think you need assistance with any of the above the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences & Engineering Library is running the following RAPID (Researchers and Postgraduate Information Discovery) courses which will cover all of these areas and more.

Book online into any of the following RAPID modules:

Module 1: To be completed online via Blackboard
Module 2: April 21, 2-3.30pm
Module 3: April 24, 2-3.30pm
Module 4: April 28, 2-3.30pm
Module 5: May 1, 2-3.30pm

Details of the course content for each module is located on the Library website.

The sessions will be held in the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library, Training Room. This course is highly recommended for all researchers especially new postgraduates.

For any queries please contact Leith Woodall or phone: 3346 3502

Publish, not Perish: The Art & Craft of Publishing in Scholarly Journals.
If you have the chance, check out this site from the libraries of the University of Colorado.
It describes the world of academic publishing, how to prepare your manuscript, how to find the most likely journals to target your paper to, it defines the “impact factor”,  gives you the details of the actual publishing process, the world of Open Access, & how to fit writing papers into your already busy schedule. A very useful resource for researchers just beginning to publish and for those who want to update their knowledge of the 21st century’s publishing world in academia.