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During Semester 1 2008, the Library will be offering document delivery to Undergraduate students, as part of a trial service.

Undergraduate students will be able to request up to a maximum of 15 items per semester through the document delivery service. This may include requests for books or articles that are related to your studies and which are not held at the University of Queensland Library. It may also include requests for journal articles held at Warehouse or at another UQ campus.

Supply time for these requests may vary depending on whether an item is supplied from the UQ collection, or from a non-UQ collection. Supply time for items requested from non-UQ collections will depend on factors such as the local processes of the supplying library and the time that an item will spend in transit from the supplying library to UQ.

For more information about the Document Delivery service, please go to:
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/docdeliv/about.html

The Library has purchased the Nature journal archives. The full text is now available back to volume 1 issue 1, 1869. The Library also has Science back to 1880 which is also volume 1. The Web of Science database indexes these journals back to 1900.

The UQ Library ran a competition before Christmas asking students to put a video on YouTube which was about student experiences in the Library.

The UQ Library is pleased to announce Ben Jones as the winner of the First Annual UQ Library Video Contest. Ben’s video Chronicles of Library Man
provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the UQ Library. Second prize has been awarded to a team entry submitted by Phil Helliwell and Scott Veitch.

Nicky Foxlee has been appointed Manager of the PAH Library. Congratulations to Nicky and we wish her well!
We are having a morning tea to farewell Nicky on Monday 25th February. Please come and join us in this celebration.

Date: Monday 25th February
Time: 10 am - 11am
Place: Dentistry Library, Turbot Street

Please RSVP to deni@library.uq.edu.au to assist us with catering

There are two new journal ranking tools freely available on the internet.

SCImago Journal & Country Rank — Data from Scopus (13,200 journals)

Eigenfactor — Data from Thomson (8,000 journals)

The SJR indicator (from SCImago Journal & Country Rank) and the Eigenfactor take the ISI Impact Factor one step further. They incorporated a PageRank algorithm from Google to weight the citing journals. The ISI Impact Factor counts the number of cites to papers in a journal but does not distinguish if the citing paper is published in a prestigious journal or a not so highly ranked journal. The SJR indicator and the Eigenfactor take into account the ranking of the citing journal.

Further reading:
Free journal-ranking tool enters citation market

Impact factors and Scimago JR compared

Eigenfactor: Measuring the value and prestige of scholarly journals

An Advanced Word Course has been organized for Tuesday 12th February 10am - 1pm in the Ken Adkins Learning Centre next to the Dentistry Library.

Attendees will learn of the most important features of Word which assist in the creation and maintenance of lengthy formal documents.

This class is recommended to Word users with at least an intermediate level of experience who are creating a very long document such as a thesis.

Class Content:

At the end of this session, you will be able to:

* use styles to format your document consistently
* use the Outline view to create headings
* create an automatic table of contents
* insert cross-references to items in the document
* understand the issues involved with creating a long document as a single file or as many separate files
* convert your document to PDF

Duration: 3 hours
Prerequisite:Class attendees must be currently-enrolled students of The University of Queensland and very confident users of Microsoft Word.

If you would like to attend - please email Sue Curlewis s.curlewis@library.uq.edu.au

Nicky Foxlee has moved to manage the PAH Library. We wish her well after many fantastic years in the Dentistry Library. Sue Curlewis from the Biological Sciences Library will be joining Mary and Thelma in the Dentistry Library until the end of March when the new Manager of the Dentistry Library will be appointed.