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.

Endnote X1 is now available for download from the Library’s website for University of Queensland staff and students. This new version is compatible with Vista. Endnote X1 will allow you to: customise your fonts and author names; create subsets of groups of references within your library; search within your library using the “quick search” feature without going to a new screen; confirm any changes you have made to your references before saving; and if you have an Endnote Web subscription, you can move easily between your Endnote Web and Endnote X1 libraries and transfer references. Find out more about the new features on Endnote X1 by visiting: Endnote X1 New Features.

The Dentistry Library has re-opened. The electrical upgrade took slightly longer than expected - 2 weeks instead of 1 week. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. Students, if you have a problem with your borrowing record due to difficulties in returning items, please either drop in and speak with Dentistry Library staff or email us on deni@library.uq.edu.au. If all is well, have a great holiday break and we will see you refreshed in the new year. Staff, ADA(Qld) members and Community borrowers, if we do not see you during December, Merry Christmas from Dentistry Library staff.

Scopus is now available from the UQ Library! Using Scopus researchers cans:

Scopus is available from the Library catalogue.

The Dentistry Library will be closed during the second semester break. This is because of major electrical work being undertaken during the period. The Library will be closed from Saturday 22nd September and will re-open Monday 1st October. Library staff will be re-located to other branches during this period. All staff and students will need to borrow the books and other materials they will require during the closed period, prior to closing on Friday 5.00pm.

All books that fall due for return during the closed period, Saturday 22nd September to Saturday 29th September will be due on 1st October. If there are any changes and staff are able to open the Library on Friday 28th September, we will do so. This will mean the Library will also be open on Saturday 29th September. We will keep you informed, so Watch This Space!!!

Have you experienced text scrambling when using Endnote with MSWord? Your text in MSWord will scramble if you have the “Field Codes” feature enabled in your MSWord program. To re-set this feature: Open MS Word; Select the Tools menu; select Options at the bottom of the list; select the View tab and open the View screen; find the field codes feature and un-tick it; select OK at the bottom of the screen to confirm the change. Voila!