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Alerting services to your email account

Monday, December 24th, 2007

For those who prefer to have alerts of search results or Table of Contents for specific journals sent to you by email, many database providers feature such a service.

The basic steps are:-
- registering with the database as an user
- doing a search on your topic OR
- a journal title search for Table of Contents (ToC)
- save as an email alert
- stipulate the frequency (daily, weekly or monthly)
- and the format (HTML or Text)

Then simply await for the alerts to be delivered to your email account.

For example, Web of Knowledge steps are available at: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/bio/useits/wok/wok_alert.html 

New Librarian Consultation Desk

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

If you are in the Library & would like to speak to a Librarian, there is now a more convenient procedure. Simply go to the information desk directly opposite the entrance, pick up the phone & dial ext. 63549 for the on-call Librarian. You will be attended to immediately.

For all other enquiries such as loans, please see the staff at the Information Desk.

New features in “My Record”

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

You can keep track of what you have been reading by turning on “Reading History”.

You can also track down what you have searched in the Library Catalogue by going into “Preferred Searches”.

For more details, read “help” in “My Record”.

Librarian in Engineering Learning Centre

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Physical sciences and engineering librarians are rostered on desk in Engineering Learning Centre (ELC) now at 12-1, every Tuesday and Thursday.  They work side by side with tutors and admin officers answering any information seeking related queries.

New online journal

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Journal of Biomaterials Applications

It is now available online only via the Library catalogue via Sage Premier at Highwire 

ISI Impact factor: 1.310
ISSN: 0885-3282
Issues/Year: 4
Language: ENGLISH
Journal Country/Territory: ENGLAND
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Publisher Address: 1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND
Subject Categories: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, MATERIALS SCIENCE - BIOMATERIALS
   

Requesting items from warehouse

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Please note that the problem with warehouse requests using Internet Explorer as a browser has still not been resolved.  Please use Netscape or Firefox.  Talk to your IT person if you don’t know how to install Netscape Browser or Firefox Browser.