PSE Library News

GeoRef access

uqgpossi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:12:50 +0000

Attention all earth scientists! The library now has GeoRef available via the Engineering Village platform, which already provides access to GeoBase. Save time by searching for specifically geological material in only one database. Until the end of 2008, GeoRef is also available via CSA Illumina.

GeoRef covers world literature in geology and geosciences; US geology is covered from 1693 whilst the rest of the world is covered from 1933 onwards. Geosciences Australia material is available from November 2003. Material covered includes journals, books, dissertations, maps, reports, and most U.S. Geological Survey publications.

Changes in the library

uqlatki2 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:06:19 +0000

Next time you visit the Library you may notice that some changes have occurred on Level 2.

The reference collection has been placed along the back wall of the Recently Received Books and Journals / Quiet Reading Area.

The chairs that were previously located in this area have been sent off to be re-covered - don’t despair, we expect them back in the near future!

Please come in and take a look.

EndNote - Bibliographies made easy!

uqpyorkb — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:44:45 +0000

EndNote workshops will be held in the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library:

Monday 8 September, 10am -12noon – Part 1
Monday 15 September, 10am – 12noon – Part 2

Set up an EndNote library and import references from databases such as the Web of Science, EI Compendex, Inspec, GeoRef, MathSciNet, SciFinderScholar, or the datbases you use.
Use EndNote with MS Word to write papers and create bibliographies in the bibliographic style you use.

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

NTIS Technical Reports Newsletter

uqpyorkb — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:21:06 +0000

The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) provides access to U.S. Government technical content from 1964. Access to the NTIS database is available from Engineering Village. NTIS has recently produced a free NTIS Technical Reports Newsletter. The Newsletter highlights recently indexed and abstracted titles in particular categories – this first issue is about Going Green. Future editions will feature various NTIS content categories as well as showcase the relevancy of past U.S. Government technical reports to the current issues of our times. To subscribe send an email with your name and email address to ntrnews@ntis.gov.

Scientific Commons - Open Access Repository

uqdkeste — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:44:47 +0000

“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.

Ranking Web of World Repositories

uqdkeste — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:34:06 +0000

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.

RefWorks Training - an easy way to create and manage references

uqpyorkb — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:14:33 +0000

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

Creating study space

uqlatki2 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:09:36 +0000

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.

Journal Citation Reports

uqlatki2 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:28:59 +0000

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)

uqlatki2 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:47:23 +0000

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.