Launched by Elsevier and Cell Press the project Article of the future is aiming to promote prototypes for the new online scientific article.

Key features of the prototypes:

* A hierarchical presentation of text and figures so that readers can elect to drill down through the layers of content based on their level of expertise and interest. This organizational structure is a significant departure from the linear-based organization of a traditional print-based article in incorporating the core text and supplemental material within a single unified structure.
* A graphical abstract allows readers to quickly gain an understanding of the main take-home message of the paper. The graphical abstract is intended to encourage browsing, promote interdisciplinary scholarship and help readers identify more quickly which papers are most relevant to their research interests.
* Research highlights provide a bulleted list of the key results of the article.
* Author-Affiliation highlighting makes it easy to see an author’s affiliations and all authors from the same affiliation.
* A figure that contains clickable areas so that it can be used as a navigation mechanism to directly access specific sub-sections of the results and figures.
* Integrated audio and video let authors present the context of their article via an interview or video presentation and allow animations to be displayed more effectively.
* The Experimental Procedures section contains alternate views allowing readers to see a summary or the full details necessary to replicate the experiment.
* A new approach to displaying figures allows the reader to identify quickly which figures they are interested in and then drill down through related supplemental figures. All supplemental figures are displayed individually and directly linked to the main figure to which they are related.
* Real-time reference analyses provide a rich environment to explore the content of the article via the list of citations.

Check it all out at http://beta.cell.com/ or have a look at the following examples.

Article Prototype 1:

Article Prototype 2:

Get to know the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library in O-Week! Library tours will be held on:

• Wednesday 22 July : 10am or 2pm
• Thursday 23 July : 10am or 2pm
• Friday 24 July : 10am or 2pm

Tours will start just inside the front entrance to the Library on Level 2. Every student who goes on a tour will receive a $2 voucher for credit on their student card for printing/copying. Tours take approximately 30 minutes. Please contact us if you have any queries.

An online version of the ‘Encyclopedia of global change : environmental change and human society’ is now available. The encyclopedia’s interdisciplinary approach covers a wide-range of general research categories: altered ecosystems, climate change, food and water supply, population, politics and global change, institutions and policies, biographies, and case studies.

Level 1 of the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library is currently undergoing some changes.

The area will be closed from Wednesday 8 July until Friday 24 July, so will be available again once Semester 2 starts.

EndNote workshops with an introduction to engineering and physical sciences databases will be held in the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library on:

Part 1: Thursday 10 September 2-4pm
Part 2: Thursday 17 September 2–4pm

The EndNote workshops will provide an introduction to engineering and physical sciences databases such as EI Engineering Village, IEEE Xplore and the Web of Science.

You should only book for these EndNote workshops if your research area is engineering or physical sciences. In these workshops you will:

• Set up an EndNote library and import references from databases such as the Web of Science, EI Engineering Village, MathSciNet, SciFinder or the databases you use.
• Use EndNote with Word to write papers and create bibliographies.

Bookings can be made online, please let us know if any queries.

The ZenWorks Applications Portal (ZAP) is currently being installed on library PCs. ZAP will replace Novell and will be used to manage applications on the desktop. Other changes you will notice are:

• Browser upgrades: Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 2
• Open Office 3 has replaced Star Office. Open Office is free and supports the latest document formats
• If you insert a USB or CD the autorun is disabled, you will need to open your files from ‘My Computer’.

Please contact the Library with any queries.

Industrial plants are both dangerous and difficult to gain access to. The virtual paper mill developed by Yale serves as a substitute for student field trips. The paper mill was built to accurately recreate scale & detail. Each machine and stage of the process is accurately modeled, throughout the build are clickable web links to a purpose-built website where additional information is presented in a more appropriate forms.