The Library has made available a new electronic journal which should interest palaeontologists Palaeontologia electronica. It is a refereed journal sponsored by the Palaeontological Association, Paleontological Society and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. The publisher is Coquina Press, a non-profit organisation “whose sole purpose is to facilitate the dissemination of paleontological information through the publication of an open-access electronic journal”.

The library has just acquired access to the International Journal of Food Engineering produced by the Berkeley Electronic Press. The founding editor is Professor Xiao Dong Chen of Monash University. The IJFE covers the following areas :

• heat, mass transfer and fluid flow in food processing
• food properties, including thermal, chemical and mechanical properties
• food microstructure development and characterisation
• electronics and instrumentation in the food industry
• control and system engineering for the food industry
• application of artificial intelligence in food engineering research and in industry
• food biotechnology
• thermal processing
• non-thermal food processing
• separation and purification processes for food production
• food engineering education (course instruction, innovations in laboratory development, and classroom problems)
• plant design using conceptual design techniques
• mathematical modeling and software development for food processing purposes

The journal aims to publish high quality articles in engineering disciplines related to food processing and contains critical reviews, research articles, hypotheses (innovative, scientific views and systematic arguments on future directions of research or new interpretations of topics), shorter communications on significant continuing research results deserving rapid publication, critical thoughts and comments in the form of letters to the editor, and microstructure images with clear descriptions.

Two new Nature publications have recently been acquired:

• Nature Geoscience is a multi-disciplinary journal aimed at bringing together research across the entire spectrum of the Earth Sciences.
• Nature Materials covers research across all the materials sciences.

The Library also subscribes to:

• Nature Physics
• Nature Photonics
• Nature Nanotechnology
• Nature Biotechnology

A library catalogue keyword search for ‘nature’ and using the ‘Entire Collection’ drop down menu box to limit to ‘All Journals’ will display a complete list of Nature publications held by the UQ Library.

Many databases, online journals and websites are now providing RSS feeds for journal, table of contents (TOC), news alerts and updated search topic results. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based syndication format for distributing content on the Web.

To save RSS feeds you will need a feed reader. Feed readers can be web, desktop or email based. Web feeders include Google Reader or Bloglines; a popular desktop reader is Feedreader but there are numerous others. Email based feeds allow aggregators to send RSS feeds directly to your email account. An example of email feed is FeedBlitz. Here’s a brief overview of how to use RSS feeds with some science and engineering databases:

• Web of Science - Save your search alert - once saved you will see an RSS feed – XML icon. Copy and paste the URL into your RSS reader. You will need to register with the Web of Knowledge to save alerts or set up tables of contents.
• Compendex and Scopus - Click on the RSS icon once your search completed.
• IEEE Xplore - RSS feeds are available for recently posted journal, transaction, and magazine issues to Tables of Contents Alerts. Browse journals and magazines, select the RSS icon and copy and paste the URL into your RSS reader.

Please contact the Library if you would like any information on setting up RSS feeds to receive alerts.

The Library recently acquired access to the International Journal Of Mineral Resources Engineering. Mineral Resources Engineering primarily publishes papers on advances in research, development and practical applications in all aspects of mining science and mining engineering technology.

Access is now available to two exciting new online journal titles :

Nature nanotechnology
This title contains significant high quality papers in all areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology and covers research into the design, characterization and production of structures, devices and systems that involve the manipulation and control of materials and phenomena at atomic, molecular and macromolecular scales.

Nature photonics
Not only does this journal publish top quality research in optics, but it also looks at emerging applications, technology commercialisation and the business side of photonics.

The Library has recently subscribed to two new journals:

1. Recent Patents on Nanotechnology

2. Nanotechnology Law & Business

Access is also available via a title search on the Library Catalogue.

The Library now has electronic access to the International Journal of Robotics & Automation. The journal is available via ProQuest Science Journals from January 2006. The journal is published quarterly. There is a 3 month delay for online publication of a current issue. The PSE Library also holds hard copy of this journal from 1988.

The Library has recently subscribed to the International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems (IJEEPS). Online access is available from 01, Mar. 2004. IJEEPS publishes significant research and scholarship related to latest and up-and-coming developments in power systems - The Berkeley Electronic Press.

• Journal of Fluid Mechanics
• Restoration Ecology
• Synlett : accounts and rapid communications in synthetic organic chemistry

Online subscriptions and journal archives due in 2007.