“The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public. A key challenge of the project is to support the rapidly growing number of movements and archives who admit the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge.

Core functions and aims of the project for now and the future are to provide the identification of repositories, the indexing of full-text documents, the extraction of author relationships and personalization services.”

ScientificCommons.org.

This site produced by the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Spain is your link to world universities’ & other organisations’ Open Access files, ie similar to UQ’s own eSpace.

The aim of this Ranking is to support Open Access initiatives and therefore the free access to scientific publications in an electronic form and to other academic material. The web indicators are used here to measure the global visibility and impact of the scientific repositories.

The Library will be running a RefWorks training session on Wednesday 6 August, 12-1.30pm.

Bookings can be made online.

The session covers:

• Setting up a new reference library
• Inputting references manually
• Importing references electronically from databases
• Creating a list of references and using with Word to insert citations and create a bibliography

The staff at the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library are looking at creating more study space for our users. In order to do this we are moving a section of our journal collection from Level 4 down to Level 3. The space on Level 4 will be available for quiet individual study.

2007 data is now available on the Journal Citation Reports. The Journal Citation Reports are a major source of citation data on journals in the areas of science and social sciences. You can search the Journal Citation Reports by specific title or by subject category. To access the Journal Citation Reports go to the Library catalogue.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) has recently published its 5000th volume.

Since it was first established in 1973, LNCS has provided the computer science community with a continuous channel for cutting-edge developments in the field. Initially launched as a series focusing on theoretical computer science and research advances in Europe, LNCS has evolved into one of the world’s most authoritative computer science research forums, covering the latest results from all areas of computer science and information technology research, development, and education.

LNCS 5000 features an exciting theme authored by distinguished researchers.
Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis are recipients of the ACM Turing Award 2007 for original and continuing research in a software/hardware quality assurance process known as “Model Checking.” “25 years of Model Checking” is the anniversary volume.

Access to LNCS is available via the Library catalogue.

The AutoCAD 2008 tutor for engineering graphics / Alan J. Kalameja

C programming : a modern approach (2nd ed ) / K.N. King

Encyclopedia of e-collaboration / Ned Kock (ed)

Exergy : energy, environment, and sustainable development / Ibrahim Dincer and Marc A. Rosen

HCI remixed : essays on works that have influenced the HCI community / edited by Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald

How to write and illustrate scientific papers (2nd ed) / Björn Gustavii

Ingenium : five machines that changed the world / Mark Denny

Photonic crystals : molding the flow of light (2nd ed) / John D. Joannopoulos, et al

Python for Rookies : a first course in programming / Sarah Mount, James Shuttleworth and Russel Winder

Software solutions for engineers and scientists / Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton

• Do you know how to find and use relevant databases in your subject area?
• Do you know how use citation indexing to locate the latest research material in your field?
• Do you know how to use Endnote to create a personal database of references and create a bibliography for your publications?

The next sessions run for the School of ITEE are:
July 2008 Workshop
Module 1 Tuesday, 22 July 2008 - 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Module 2 Wednesday, 23 July 2008 - 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Module 3 Thursday, 24 July 2008 - 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Venue: eZone Level 2, Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences & Engineering Library

Sept / October 2008 Workshop
Module 1 Monday, 29 September 2008 - 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Module 2 Tuesday, 30 September 2008 - 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Module 3 Wednesday, 1 October 2008 - 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Venue: eZone Level 2, Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences & Engineering Library

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.

Book by contacting:
Loretta Atkinson
or phone: 3346 3504