Coming to JSTOR

JSTOR will introduce a new "faceted search" feature in early July. The faceted search will offer a number of different options to expand and refine search results. Faceted searching and search results will allow you to easily visualize how the returned articles are distributed among categories, or “facets." For instance, with faceted search you can see how many of your results are in each discipline, how many are book reviews or full-length articles, and how many articles contain images, among other options. You'll be able to modify your search results by choosing specific facets, and all search results pages will now incorporate the facets sidebar to make modifications easier.

Access to New Resources

As a result of the merger with Dept. of Natural Resources and Water, we can now offer you access to two new Informit Databases:

APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs: Full Text)

AIATSIS (Indigenous Studies Bibliography)

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. The database indexes 515 journal titles, with 223+ being comprehensively indexed. The scanned images of journal articles in Australian Public Affairs - Full Text are sourced mostly from these comprehensively indexed journals. Images are provided in PDF format.

Some of the titles which are available fulltext and may be of interest include:

Aboriginal history
Australian Aboriginal studies
Australian archaeology
Australian historical studies
Australasian j. of environmental management
Australian j. of public administration
Australian zoologist
Griffith review
J. of the Royal Historical Society of Qld
Policy
Quadrant
Queensland archaeological research

eResearch Archive

eRa is the gateway to to the Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries
archive of scientific and research publications

For the first time, the research output of QPIF is available to the wider online community. This output includes journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and theses. Where permission has been granted (or subscriptions permit), users viewing the eResearch Archive will be able to link directly to full text content online or download a copy free of charge.

eResearch Archive ensures the widest possible dissemination of QPIF staff research and contributes to the growing body of research literature that is now freely available online.

Publications have been submitted from a broad cross section of QPIF staff, covering areas such as Animal Science, Emerging Technologies, Fisheries, Plant Science, Horticulture and Forestry Science, Biosecurity and Industry Development.

Users can conduct a basic or advanced search or browse by subject

SuperSearch Training Session

There will be a session on using the library search tool "SuperSearch" in the Group Room on Level 14 of 160 Ann Street on Friday 17th April at 10:30 am

The session will last approximately one hour and will demonstrate the various features of this tool, the basics of searching and how to retrieve and export records into Refworks.

Please contact the library to book a place.

If you cannot attend the Friday session just contact the library staff to arrange an individual session at the time of your choice.

Library Training

This coming Friday morning (Friday 3rd April) the topic will be Introducing Scopus.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.

It's designed to find the information scientists need. It is quick and easy to use and comprehensive in scope. Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process.

It is updated daily and covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, including 1200 open-access journals, conference proceedings, trade publication and book series.

The session will showcase the features available and demonstrate how to set up a personal profile and how to export references into RefWorks folders.

Bookings are essential. Only 8 places available.
Contact the library to book a place for this session

Customary Medicinal Knowledgebase

CMKb is an online relational database for collating, disseminating, visualising and analysing initially public domain data on customary medicinal plants. The database stores information related to taxonomy, phytochemistry, biogeography, biological activities of customary medicinal plant species as well as images of individual species. Known bioactive molecules are characterized within the chemoinformatics module of CMKb, with functions available for molecular editing and visualization.

Enhancements to RefWorks

During the week of January 12th, 2009, RefWorks is scheduled to release another feature upgrade to the program.

Detailed information about the new features and enhancements for the January release is available at: http://info.csa.com/refworks/feature-release/january2009.shtml .

General New Features & Enhancements
Ability to Save Search Strategies in Advanced Search
File Attachment Searching
Improved Sorting of Japanese Characters

ARROW Discovery Service

The number of records in the ARROW Discovery Service has reached over 250,000. Each of these metadata records link to research outputs held in 26 university repositories across Australia and includes theses, preprints, postprints, journal articles, book chapters, music recordings and pictures.

Queensland Parliament Tabled Papers Database

In 2007 the Queensland Parliament developed a single repository database for all papers tabled in the Queensland Parliament, which is accessible on the Queensland Parliament's website. Over time, this database will be updated to include papers tabled in previous Parliaments.
Details of papers currently available:

52nd Parliament (10 October 2006 to date)

51st Parliament (23 January 2004 to 15 August 2006)
50th Parliament (20 March 2001 to 13 January 2004)
49th Parliament (part) (22 April 1999 to 23 January 2001)

There are a number of different types of papers tabled in the Legislative Assembly including Annual reports, Budget papers, Committee papers, Legislation (bills, expl. notes), Legislation (Subordinate), Miscellaneous papers, and Overseas Travel reports.

World database on Protected Areas

Source: UNEP
"The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is compiled from multiple sources and is the most comprehensive global dataset on marine and terrestrial protected areas available. It is a joint venture of UNEP and IUCN, produced by UNEP-WCMC and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN-WCPA) working with governments and collaborating NGOs. Over the last 12 months UNEP-WCMC, supported by the Proteus Partnership, has been redeveloping the World Database on Protected Areas. Using the latest GIS, web and database technologies the WDPA has been extensively redesigned into a web-enabled spatial database platform with custom data editing, downloading and analysis facilities. Over the course of the next 16 months, the opportunities to interact with the new WDPA will be slowly unveiled."

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

The National Library of Australia, in collaboration with the Australian State and Territory libraries, has commenced a program to digitise out of copyright newspapers. The free online service will enable full-text searching of newspaper articles. This will include newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies. The Beta service now contains 150,000 newspaper pages from 1803 onwards. Additional pages are being added each week. The Courier-Mail has been digitised from June 1846 to December 1899 to date.

Nature.com databases and Gateways

Useful links supplied by Nature which includes a link to Nature Reports Climate Change

Assisted Migration and Rewilding

A list of list of links to useful journal and magazine articles maintained by the Torreya Guardians, a self-organized group of naturalists, botanists . ecologists and others with a deep concern for biodiversity protection.

BCIN

BCIN, the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network, is the Web's most complete bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property. A worldwide network of libraries and documentation centres contribute data on their combined holdings, including previously unavailable material from private sources, to the BCIN database.

Cited literature includes:
books, published and unpublished monographs and serials
conference proceedings
technical reports, journal articles, theses
audio-visual materials
software and machine-readable files

OpenSIGLE

OpenSIGLE combines the resources of major European information and document supply centres who have joined together in an association known as EAGLE : European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation.

It provides open access to SIGLE bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature (GL) produced in Europe. Examples of GL include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers and pre-prints, some official publications, and other types of grey literature. OpenSIGLE covers pure and applied science and technology, economics, other sciences and humanities.

Library SuperSearch

SuperSearch provides a single access point to databases, library catalogues and e-journals. You can search up to 10 resources simultaneously or link directly to an individual resource. SuperSearch then allows you to link to the fulltext if available.

Training will be available in the 1st and 2nd weeks of September. Keep an eye on the Library home page for details.

EBSCOhost 2.0

New look arrives on the EBSCOhost databases

EBSCOhost 2.0 is live and has introduced the following new features to the site.
• A new simpler basic searching screen
• The ability to preview an article or image by mouseover
• New result list
• New detail display
• New search history capability
• Enhanced personalization features
• New organization of limiters and expanders
• New search modes including SmartText
• URLs that can be bookmarked

International Standard. ISO 15270

Plastics : Guidelines for the recovery and recycling of plastic wastes.

This International Standard has been developed to assist all plastics industry stakeholders in the development of
• a sustainable global infrastructure for plastics recovery and recycling;
• a sustainable market for recovered plastics materials and their derived manufactured products.
For the reduction of plastics waste and in support of the objectives of sustainable development, top priority should be given on a product life-cycle basis to
• general reduction of material and energy resource use;
• specific optimization of the use of plastics raw materials.

NOTE: Unfortunately you can’t link directly to this; you need to type in the no. of the standard and click All to view document

World Legal Information Institute

WorldLII provides a single search facility for databases located on the following Legal Information Institutes: AustLII; BAILII; CanLII; HKLII; LII (Cornell); also provides links to over 15,000 law-related web sites in every country in the world. WorldLII's Websearch makes searchable the full text of as many of these sites as WorldLII's web-spider can reach.

Conservation GeoPortal

"The Conservation Geoportal is a collaborative effort by and for the conservation community to facilitate the discovery and publishing of geographic information systems (GIS) data and maps, to support conservation decisionmaking and education. It is primarily a data catalogue, intended to provide a comprehensive listing of GIS data sets and map services relevant to biodiversity conservation. The Conservation Geoportal does not actually store maps and data, but rather the descriptions and links to those resources, known as "metadata."

It includes the following capabilities:

Search for data and maps by keyword, category, geography, or time period
Save your search queries for future use
Use the built-in Map Viewer to display, manipulate, and combine live map services
Create, save, and email custom maps using data from various map services
Publish metadata for your maps and data so others can find them

The Conservation Geoportal is designed to make it quick and easy for conservation practitioners to find, and if possible, preview and download GIS data and maps. This is a free tool for all conservation practitioners and supporters to use and contribute content."