TASTER 2009……………

You are invited to attend Taster 2009,
an event hosted by the Division of Technology, Information and Learning Support (TILS).

Take a lunch break! Join us and sample the latest technology and services supporting teaching, learning and research at QUT.

Event details
Date: Tuesday 10 November 2009
Time: Drop in between 11:30am to 1:30pm
Venue: Gardens Point, level 5, C block, Law Library
RSVP: before 5 November 2009 to rsvp.tils@qut.edu.au

Sample menu

Manage, share and communicate your research data

§ Research data management

§ Live Evo demonstrations

§ Creating Effective Posters information session

Explore physical and virtual learning environments

§ New student learning spaces including touch screen technologies

§ Library refurbishments and new look learning spaces

§ QUT Blackboard and demonstrations of Elluminate

Support for student learning

§ Academic Skills Advisers

§ New information services – databases, twitter, subject guides

§ SafeAssign – text matching and citation checking tool

Discover smart tools for busy people

§ Outlook tune-up — five things to make your email run faster

§ Microsoft Live Meeting demonstrations

We look forward to seeing you there……..

Professor Arun Sharma invites you to… Profiling, Promoting and Evaluating QUT’s Research Publications

The Office of Research and the QUT ePrints team are offering an information session for researchers about the various collections of QUT research publications across QUT.

 The session will cover:

 Different publication collections (HERDC, Scholarly, Pre-QUT & QUT ePrints)

• Publications and your research performance profile
• Submission of your publications (when, where, by whom, which version, etc)
• Viewing and editing your research profile on RAD
• Your publications and ERA (Research Excellence for Australia), the national research evaluation framework
• Promoting your publications via QUT ePrints (and how this can increase your citation rate)

 Come to the session and learn how you can make sure that your research publications are never overlooked.

 The session is being offered at both Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove campuses for one hour at the following times.

 GARDENS POINT

DATE: Tuesday 13^th October from 2.30-3.30pm

LOCATION: V714 (top of library)

 KELVIN GROVE

DATE: Thursday 15^th October from 2-3pm

LOCATION: Q433 (IHBI Seminar Room)

  Spaces are limited so please RSVP for this event by email to researchdata@qut.edu.au 

eResearch Practices Survey

The Division of Technology, Information and Learning Support (TILS) and the Division of Research and Commercialisation are interested in learning more about your eResearch practices, skills and training needs. The survey will assist the Library and High Performance Computing (HPC) to plan for improved research support services, training and data management infrastructure needed for eResearch activities in 2010. QUT academics, postgraduate research students and research support staff are invited to complete the survey.

*NOTE: All survey respondants receive a coffee voucher for Bar Merlo (GP) or Beadles on the Quad (KG) upon completion of the survey.

The Survey closes midnight Sunday October 4th.

Personal details will be separated from the survey report and the remainder of the results. For more information, queries can be directed to Stephanie Bradbury. Phone 3138 4616 or email: s.bradbury@qut.edu.au

Datamonitor Case Studies

The Library has purchased an exciting resource called Datamonitor  Case Studies . These Industry Reports  are an essential every day teaching tool and provide a balance between theory and practice. There are 208 Industry Reports pertaining to advertising, marketing and public relations. They range from 2004-2009 and can be printed and downloaded.

 Have a look at a title search in the Library catalogue at Datamonitor Case Studies…..

ANDS Roadshow in September

ANDS – Australian National Data Service – is offering workshops in September -

• ANDS Services
• Research Data and the Code: the researcher perspective
• Research Data and the Code: the institutional perspective

For more information, see http://ands.org.au/events/roadshow.html

New Journal Subsciptions for 2010

Subscriptions to the following journals will commence in 2010 -

• International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing.  UK: InderScience.
• Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy.  Calif.: Berkeley Electronic Press.

Access to both journals will be online.

CARMA subscription renewed for 2009/10

CARMA – Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis’ video library has been renewed for the ensuing year.

Please Note – due to negligible use of the live Webcast programs (which is not in our time zone), access to the video library only has been renewed.

Remember you need to register as a CARMA user – please see details on our catalogue record.

Did you know

1. QUT eprints is back up to speed.  The slow performance of the last months is fixed.

2. The HERDC form can be generated from your eprint record.  Many of the fields have already been autocompleted.  Just print it off, complete the author details and with a copy of the research output it is ready for the ADR to sign.

3.  QUT ePrints has now 20,711research outputs  in the live repository.  9,833 are open access full text publications.  1,273 are fulltext but under a temporary embargo which when lifted will allow open access.

Here at QUT we have focussed on the “Green” route to open acess.  That is, authors are free to publish in any journal but should retain the right to disseminate an open access copy of the “accepted version” of the journal article and conference papers via QUT ePrints.   The ” Gold” route to open acees is also supported.  That is, the Library will pay the author-side fees for QUT authors who choose to publish in jouranls published by BioMedCentral and Public Library of Science.  The Library pays the publisher on the author’s behalf.

As the year rolls by deposit your new publication to ePrints, add the version that was accepted after peer review by the publishers, but does not have the publishers formatting and we will do the copyright checking for you.   If you self deposit, the record is enriched with the appropriate abstract, keywords, subject headings(FOR codes)  which are all indexed by Google and therefore increase your visibility as a researcher.

What is in it for you?

Citation, citation!!!

Include the DOI of the journal and ePrints will link to the published version.   However only subscribers to the journal will be able to read your article.   Include the author’s version and more eyes will read your work, cite the published version.  The ePrint record will link to both versions.   Everyone is happy.  Increased impact, greater citation counts for the researcher.    Also you will be well ahead when  ERA comes knocking in 2010.

Course Materials Database (CMD) for semester 2, 2009

In recent surveys QUT students have requested more academic staff add readings to the CMD. To access the CMD go to the QUT Library homepage, and in the Quicklinks section select CMD. The CMD main menu is also available under Learning Resources from your QUT Blackboard unit site. Use Self Activation of Multiple Items or alternatively use Self Activation of a Single Item to ensure they are available for Semester 2 2009. Further instructions on how to use the CMD are available at: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/teaching/cmd_for_staff.jsp

For more information on how to:
Reactivate documents: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/teaching/cmd_for_staff.jsp#reactivating
Submit new documents: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/teaching/cmd_for_staff.jsp#add
(New CMD requests – to be submitted by 26 June 2009 (if required for Week 1)

New Plagiarism Tools

This is a new plagiarism tutorial created by the Vaughan Memorial Library in Acadia in the US. This is being used to teach university students about the importance of referencing. If you think your students may benefit from using it you may link this to blackboard under their copyright conditions. Acadia librarians use these modules to teach basic research skills to students and to supplement one-on-one and in-class information literacy instruction.

Also, you or your students might find this plagiarism tracker tool useful. You simply paste in the text you feel may not be copied (or not sourced correctly), and the advanced option offers a timeline of current and past possibilities for copied text. Plus there’s a list of possible links from which the text may have been copied.