KG Library books moved to Store

The Library Store has been completed and all low use KG books designated for Store have been moved there.
Books in Store are accessible by placing a Hold on them.
To allow for the building work during the Library refurbishment, books in the following Dewey ranges from KG have also been temporarily moved into the Store.

The Dewey ranges affected are;
200-299 Religion
400-499 Language
500-599 Science
810-899 Literature
900-999 Geography and History

While the books have already been physically moved into the Store, they have not yet had their location changed in the catalogue. This job will take time and will probably not be completed until the 19th of February.
What does this mean? If you need a book from Store and you cannot place a Hold on it because it has not yet had its location changed, you need to fill in a missing items form and Library staff will collect the book for you.
If you have any problems let me know and apologies for the inconvenience.

Shakespeare quartos archive opens access to Hamlet

The highly-anticipated Shakespeare Quartos Archive has officially launched today with a complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet.
For the first time, all 32 existing quarto copies of the play held by UK and US institutions are freely available online in one place
http://www.quartos.org

This is an initiative of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.

Controversy surrounds Hamlet as there were several different versions published before the theatres were closed in 1642. Now scholars can explore these different quarto versions side by side for the first time on the project website. It features high-quality reproductions and searchable full text of surviving copies of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in quarto in an interactive interface. Functions and tools – such as the ability to overlay images, compare them side-by-side, and mark and tag features with user annotations – facilitate scholarly research, performance studies, and new applications for learning and teaching.

Copyright

I recently attended a talk on copyright where the following publication was mentioned;
Copyright Guide for Research Students: What you need to know about copyright before depositing your electronic thesis in an online repository http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/files/Copyright%20Guide%20for%20Research%20Students.pdf
It provides a clear, succinct explanation of copyright law and the issues HDR students and their supervisors need to be aware of.

QUT Library Links within Google Scholar have now been restored.

Great news!
In Google Scholar preferences, the correct option “Queensland University of Technology – Get fulltext @ QUT” is now visible again (QUT Library Links appear automatically for staff & students in our IP range, when connecting from on-campus).

For those of you who don’t know what I am referring to, Google Scholar has automatic Links to QUT Library holdings from QUT IP addresses. For the last couple of months this has not been working and has been sorely missed.
If you are off campus and wish to set up Google Scholar to access this link just follow these steps from Google Scholar;

• Click on Scholar Preferences.
• Type Queensland University of Technology in the ‘Library Links’ section.
• Click Save preferences.
• Start searching with links to your library’s resources (you may need to authenticate yourself to access these resources).

You can select to link to any library you like.

BBC Monitoring Library – SHORT TERM TRIAL

BBC Monitoring Library is on short-term trial until 31^st July 2009.

Access via: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/databases/trials.jsp

 The BBC Monitoring Library provides intelligence from the BBC’s unparalleled network of more than 3,000 radio, television, press, internet and news agency sources in over 150 countries.  Articles are selected from traditional and new media worldwide, with over one hundred source languages being translated into English to provide a fully searchable digital current affairs resource.

 You will need to create a personal account to access “My BBCM”. My BBCM allows you to retrieve, store and manage searches, articles, set up your RSS-Feeds and change the look and feel of the website.

Publishing Opportunities Database on short-term trial until 31 December 2009

Publishing Opportunities Database provides the most extensive listing of opportunities for professors, post-doctorates and other students interested in presenting and publishing their research papers. Information from three distinct sources is combined and presented in a convenient, intuitive format:

   * Journal Call for Papers records index – open opportunities for regularly published journals, to which content is constantly being added

   * Conference Call for Papers – time-sensitive content, providing from 3,000 to 4,000 records at any given time, for an annual total of approximately 12,000 records

    * Special Issue Call for Papers – time sensitive content with from 500 to 800 records available at any given time, for an annual total of approximately 2,000 records

 

Publishing Opportunities Database records contain vital information about:

 

    * the publication or conference

    * the scope and topics on which manuscripts are sought

    * applicable deadlines for abstracts, manuscripts and final papers

    * manuscript formatting requirements

    * submission guidelines

    * publication frequency

    * contact details

 

Publishing Opportunities Database is updated twice each month and covers multidisciplinary subject areas.

 

A title list for this resource can be found here:

http://ebscohost.com/titleLists/pod-journals.xls

Publishing Opportunities Database via EBSCOhost is on short-term trial until 31 December 2009. Access via http://www.library.qut.edu.au/db/5494f

Need to use a dictionary?

Access the Macquarie Dictionary or the Oxford English Dictionary online though the library website or the following links;

Macquarie Dictionary and Thesaurus Online

Oxford English Dictionary Online

The Macquarie is Australian so covers Australian idiom.

The Oxford English Dictionary is the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language and includes etymologies, quotation dates and authors and tracks the changes in usage for words through history.

Social Software in UK Higher Education

This study examined the use of social software in the UK further and higher education sectors to collect evidence of the effective use of social software in enhancing student learning and engagement. In this study, data from 26 initiatives, where social software tools have been employed, has been collected, analysed and synthesised. The cases chosen give a spread of tools, subject areas, contexts (parttime, full-time or distance learning), levels of study, and institutions (higher and further education). A case study methodology was followed and both educators and students were interviewed to find out what they had done, how well it had worked, and what they had learned from the experiences.

The term ‘social software’ covers a range of software tools which allow users to interact and share data with other users, primarily via the web. Blogs, wikis, social networking websites, such as Facebook and Flickr, and social bookmarking sites, such as Delicious, are examples of some of the tools that are being used to share and collaborate in educational, social, and business contexts. The key aspect of asocial software tool is that it involves wider participation in the creation of information which is shared.

To find out more, read the report or look at the case studies, go to
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/projects/effective-use-of-social-software-in-education-finalreport.pdf
or
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/projects/socialsoftware08.aspx

Search all the National Library… and more

The National Library has just released a prototype version of its long awaited Discovery Service.  It provides a federated search across  all Australian institutional repositories and a number of other collections such as Picture Australia and a heap of journals, newspapers and websites that have been archived by Pandora..

 

 To explore visit http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/

Tiered journals

The tiered journals in the Humanities and Creative Arts sector identified for ERA are available here in an Excel spreadsheet.
http://www.arc.gov.au/era/journal_list.htm
This can be useful for you to identify journal worth publishing in for maximum research impact.