UQ St Lucia campus has many diverse species of native and exotic trees. This display provides interesting facts and information about some of the types of trees you may see around campus. Trees compliment the built environment and create a sense of place.

Dr Barry Dunne is a specialist trainer from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). He will be visiting UQ in late May to run a training session on the new web version of SciFinder. This session is designed for academics and researchers.

Details are:

When: Tuesday 26 May, 1.00pm - 3.00pm
Where: Level 5, Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences & Engineering Library

Afternoon tea will be provided. There is no need to register.

SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more - it is a great and very relevant database.

If you already use SciFinder come to the session and get your search queries answered. Remember Scifinder Scholar will be phased out in the very near future! Only the web version will be available.

If you haven’t used Scifinder come and see what the new web version can do for you.

Diversity Week (May 25th -29th) celebrates the backgrounds and cultures present at UQ and in the Australian community. A number of events are being presented at UQ to celebrate Diversity Week.

The Library catalogue now provides a link to the ‘Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program for the Mining Industry‘ handbooks. The twelve handbooks address the key issues affecting sustainable development in the mining and minerals industries.

EThOS is the electronic theses online service provided by the British Library.

The aim of EThOS is:

* To offer a ’single point of access’ where researchers the world over can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education
* To support Higher Education Institutions through the transition from print to e-theses
* To help UK Higher Education Institutions expand available content by digitising paper theses
* To demonstrate the quality of UK research and help attract students and research investment into UK HE

The service is in its early days and a lot of theses are not digitised as yet, but you can search across 250,000+ theses for free and order full text where a direct download link is not provided.

Dr Barry Dunne is a specialist trainer from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). He will be visiting UQ in late May to run a training session on the new web version of SciFinder. This session is designed for academics and researchers.

Details are:

When: Tuesday 26 May, 1.00pm - 3.00pm
Where: Level 5, Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences & Engineering Library

Afternoon tea will be provided. There is no need to register.

SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more - it is a great and very relevant database.

If you already use SciFinder come to the session and get your search queries answered. Remember Scifinder Scholar will be phased out in the very near future! Only the web version will be available.

If you haven’t used Scifinder come and see what the new web version can do for you.

The Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences & Engineering Library is running the one hour workshops below for researchers and postgraduates:

Lunchtime Database Workshops

Faster research through Alerts, TOC & RSS
Learn how to create and use alerts effectively; subscribe to journal ‘Table of Contents’; and receive alerts and other RSS feeds using iGoogle.
Thursday 14 May 2009, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Citation databases
Discover how to search for influential researchers in the Web of Science and Scopus
Thursday 28 May 2009, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Searching the chemistry databases
Find out about searching the chemistry databases – SciFinder and Reaxys
Thursday 11 June 2009, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Searching for patents
Learn about searching for patents in Derwent Innovations Index, Esp@cenet and Google Patents
Thursday 25 June 2009, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

EndNote workshops

EndNote Part 1
Learn about managing your references
Thursday 28 May 2009, 10-11.30am

EndNote Part 2
Cite while you write using EndNote and Word
Thursday 4 June 2009, 10-11.30am

All sessions will be held in the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences & Engineering Library. Bookings can be made online. Please contact us at: pse@library.uq.edu.au if you have any queries.

A display about opportunities for UQ students to study abroad is available from May 1st -20th in the DHPSE Library Foyer, building no.50. UQ Student Exchange allows students to develop new skills and broaden professional relationships. Pamphlets and brochures are available providing students with more information about international universities and study opportunities. More information is available at http://www.uq.edu.au/uqabroad/

ResearcherID provided by Thomson Reuters aims to eliminate author misidentification, and to increase recognition of work and collaboration among researchers.

You can set up your own ResearcherID at ReseracherID.com.

Find out more from the ResearcherID factsheet.