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, designing and implementing systems that meet information seekers’ broader requirements.
According to the guest editors, today’s search engines are augmenting our memories, presumably freeing us to focus more mental effort on interpreting and using information to learn and make decisions. The easier access to information becomes, the greater our expectations for ubiquitous access in all kinds of situations.
Read the March issue of Computer: http://libcat.qut.edu.au/search~S7?/tComputer/tcomputer/1%2C418%2C478%2CB/frameset&FF=tcomputer&2%2C%2C2
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… link in the Find section. Then choose Video.
Is it legal to use them in lecture slides, teaching materials, assignments etc? Many of the resources available for free on the web are NOT copyright free so please check the terms of use for restrictions.
A source of images that is readily marked with copyright rights information is available at Creative Commons.
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
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 by using two fingers. EBL areplanning to offer a scaled down view more suitable for mobile access later this year.
And news just in… downloading EBL ebooks to the iPhone/iPod Touch is soon to follow. Adobe have just announced a partnership with Stanza Reader, the reader application designed for the iPhone that will allow iPhone users to download EBL ebooks.
For more information see http://blog.eblib.com/?p=125 and http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/lexcycle-announces-support-adobe-ebooks/story.aspx?guid={783FD2BD-46D6-4C7D-A568-7000F854CE5B}&dist=msr_1
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 and Behavioral Statistics: Available via Sage Premier and numerous ProQuest databases
Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research : Currently freely available online. New journal in 2009.
Journal of Statistics Education : Freely available online.
Journal of Statistical Software : Freely available online.
Statistical analysis and data mining : Online via Wiley InterScience
Statistical Surveys : Freely available online.
Link to an individual journal via a Journal Title search of the QUT Library Catalogue.
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 being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.
Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs).
ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular feedreaders such as Google Reader and Bloglines.
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, Microbiology and Plant Biology are available, free of charge, on the JoVE website, www.jove.com.
For example, video-articles published in the 17th issue include:
Screening for Amyloid Aggregation by Semi-Denaturing Detergent-Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
Randal Halfmann and Susan Lindquist
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT
In vitro Labeling of Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mayumi Yamada, Phillip Yang
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University
Single Cell Electroporation in vivo within the Intact Developing Brain
D. Sesath Hewapathirane and Kurt Haas
Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia
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 which to provide information. Be aware that if requested I will always buy a print copy of any eBook.
Over the past year we’ve been using an EBL rental scheme – adding many new eBooks to the catalogue which we borrow on your behalf when they are requested, and after a certain number of requests they are automatically purchased. This greatly enlarges our collection available but does come at a price.
So do you use eBooks?
Do you find them functional & useful?
Do you prefer print or electronic access?
Have you had any issues or challenges in their use?
What do you like about eBooks?
Any thoughts, suggestions, comments, questions & ideas would be valuable feedback. If you prefer to remain anonymous, please let me know.
Remember you can search for eBooks specifically here: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/books.jsp or via the catalogue.
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 conference proceedings as well as books, reports and dissertations.
To access Inspec via the Engineering Village platform go to the QUT Library homepage and select databases. In the Choose a database to search section enter inspec and click the Search database descriptions box. On the next page click the database name hyperlink to connect to the database. Or you may click the More details link to bring up a full one page description for this database. QUT also provides access to the Inspec Archive which together with the main database provides access to over 873,000 abstract records beginning back in 1898.
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 such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
To access GreenFILE go to the QUT Library homepage and select databases. In the “Choose a database to search” section enter greenfile and click the Find databases button.
On the next page click the database name hyperlink to connect to the database. Or you may click the More details link to bring up a full one page description for this database.
