Today’s web-based search engines perform well when searchers know what they are looking for, but fall short for learning, decision making, and other complex mental activities that take place over time.
In its March issue, Computer, the IEEE Computer Society’s flagship magazine, explores efforts by the research community and search engine companies to go beyond search, [...]
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25 Mar
Computer Magazine Devotes Special Issue to the Expanding Capabilities of Search
24 Mar
QUT Library : Find Images Online : Find Videos Online
QUT Library has updated the 2 sites below.
To access Find Images go to the QUT Library homepage and click Find or select the more… link in the Find section. Then choose Images.
To access Find Videos go to the QUT Library homepage and click Find or select the more… [...]
24 Mar
New in IEEE
New in IEEEXplore: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/databases/fullrecord.jsp?id=2790
2009 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 10-13 January 2009
Conference Proceedings
2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 15-19 December 2008
Conference Proceedings
24 Mar
EBL ebooks now available on iPhone and iPod Touch
EBL have recently announced that EBL titles can be downloaded to the Sony Reader, but EBL’s new reader is already accessible on an iPhone and iPod Touch?
Patrons can access EBL titles on their iPhone or iPod Touch through the normal webpages.
The image view in the reader will render the full book. Scrolling works [...]
24 Mar
American Statistical Association (ASA) Journal Collection
QUT Library now provides online access to the American Statistical Association (ASA) journals as listed below:
Journal of the American Statistical Association
American Statistician
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics
Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics
Technometrics
In addition access to the following ASA related journals has been available for some time.
The Journal of Educational [...]
22 Dec
ticTOCs Journal of Tables of Contents Service
ticTOCs, available at http://www.tictocs.ac.uk, is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, it’s easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 420 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s [...]
30 Oct
Video-Journal JoVE Indexed in PubMed
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is the first video journal for biological research accepted in PubMed.
JoVE publishes video demonstrations of biological techniques and methods, as applied in the laboratories of leading academic institutions, including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and others. Hundreds of peer-reviewed video-protocols demonstrating experimental techniques in Neuroscience, Cellular Biology, Developmental Biology, Immunology, Bioengineering, [...]
30 Oct
eBook feedback needed
Thank you very much for all that feedback but more is always welcome!
The library is looking for me to provide some feedback from the IT faculty on eBooks. I’d really appreciate some comments & thoughts on them as the client perspective is important.
eBooks are a significant investment & we see them as another medium by [...]
30 Oct
INSPEC : Now more than 10 million records
Inspec, the bibliographic database of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), which provides access to the world’s scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology and communications plus other related areas, has reached the 10 million records mark.
Inspec stores articles from more than 4,000 scientific and technical journals, and contains [...]
30 Oct
GreenFILE (via EBSCOhost)
GreenFILE is a free bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. The resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines [...]
