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This new blog has been set up by the QUT Library Liaison Team to support the Business Faculty & keep you informed

New Books in Library

  Back to the Stacks… check for new titles in the library by going to http://www.library.qut.edu.au/resources/newtitles.jsp

Here is a taster…  Indecent disclosure : gilding the corporate lily / Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean. Commerce without conscience

TechWatch : ITS/Library afternoon of Technology talks

  Techwatch is an ITS/Library co-production bringing you an afternoon of  technology talks. Special guest stars will be:Lance De Vine shows us how to get foxy with Firefox browser & its dazzling array of extensions/plugins to play with Bradley Beddoes will astound us with a tell-all expose of his PDP adventures and John Hayes from the School of Urban Development will give a  talk on GPS gadgetry and the “walking maps”.It’s the final Techwatch for the year before we wallow in the summer holiday.Summer TechwatchV714 – level 7 of GP LibraryFriday 2nd November from 3-4pm 

360 Search: Federated Search Service on trial in Library

  

QUT Library has started a two month trial of 360 Search. 360 Search allows you to search across multiple databases simultaneously and offers a more intuitive interface. You may choose to search across all databases at once or simply limit their search to a group of subject-specific databases. The search results are also clustered allowing clients to easily narrow their search by topic, date, journal, author, database etc. As this is a trial we are limited to searching across 20 of our major databases as listed below. ABI/INFORM Global Academic Research LibraryAcademic Search Premier  AGIS Plus Text Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Australian Public Affairs Full Text Blackwell-Synergy  Business Source Premier CINAHL with Full Text Compendex ERIC Health & Medical Complete  IEEE Xplore Online LegalTrac    ProQuest Education Journals PsycARTICLES PsycINFO ScienceDirect Wiley InterScience JournalsFeedback on this product is welcome via an online poll and feedback form available for students and staff (the online poll will appear if your Internet access is activated). 

Firefox Add-on : add Endnote Spark to your Web Browser

  Most of us are aware of Firefox as a popular alternative, standards-compliant Web browser.  Firefox is also open-source.  A direct advantage to using this open-source browser is that there is an active community of developers who are constantly offering improvements.  Instead of making us wait for a new version of the browser, Firefox uses “Add-ons” to promote constant innovation.There is a very useful Firefox extension to Endnote <addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3131> that allows you to seamlessly download a webpage citation from the Internet (Firefox Brower) to Endnote.To add-on Firefox – Endnote Add-on, go to Tools/Add-ons, in a new window click on Get Extensions. In the Search box of the Firefox Add-ons web-page type Endnote and download Endnote Add-on. Once you’ve installed it in FireFox, search the Internet, open web-page of your interest, go to Tools/Endnote, select Endnote Current Browser Text Export, then follow the prompts to download seamlessly the citation (or entire text) for the web-cite into Endnote software. If you are using a computer that does not have Endnote software installed on it, follow the same pathway and save the citation to e.g. your USB. To import the citation/citations you have saved into Endnote: open Endnote/File/Import, for the Import Data File select the file you have saved, and for Import Option select Reference Manager (RIS), click Import.The citation will appear in your Endnote Library.    

TVNEWs via Informit Search – video downloads of news stories

This is a new addition to the QUT database collection.   Current affairs programmes  and documentaries easily viewed from desktop or on larger screen for teaching purposes.  Informit Media TVNews is a revolutionary online database bringing TV news and current affairs from Australian free to air networks directly to your desktop. TVNews enables you to search, browse, track and be alerted to television events/items and programs. This provides an index and synopsis of all major news, current affairs and documentaries on channels ABC, ABC 2, SBS, 7, 9 and 10.  Have a look at http://database.library.qut.edu.au/databases/fullrecord.jsp?id=5370

Capacity Building for Research Workshop 2nd Nov

The next Capacity Building for Research Workshop is arranged for the 2nd November, 10:00- 12:00 and will be held in the Library Rm 711.   The Faculty of Business has some money for reimbursing individuals who miss out on hours of work,  please enquire for further details. If you would like to attend this workshop please get in touch via email. If there are specific themes you wish covered, that feedback would be very constructive in developing our research support. At present the content includes

• Citation Workshop – journal impact statements
• In depth clinic for specific resources – e.g.use of new or complex databases, developing search strategies 
• Endnote troubleshooting / managing your libraries

Regards

Janet

consortium that permanently archives a URL

I’ve not heard of this before – a consortium that permanently archives a URL & it’s content so that linkrot doesn’t set in & a citation can be permanently accessed. http://www.webcitation.org/archive

There’s a good wikipedia blurb (fond as I am of this tome of reference) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebCite

Emma Nelms

Librarian to the Faculty of Information Technology & Information Literacy Advisory Team Convenor I Queensland University of Technology I CRICOS No 00213J

Viewswire Trial

 QUT is now active for a trial to ViewsWire Asia Pacific, Industry Briefings, and Risk Ratings Review. The trial will run for the month of October.

Contact your Liaison Librarian for the log on username, password.

ViewsWire delivers daily decision support for doing business in fastchanging

world markets. Every day the ViewsWire highlights more

than 250 important economic, political and market developments

around the world and provides concise analytical briefings on their

implications for business. You get the country intelligence you

want, when and where you want it—all you need is a PC or laptop

with an Internet connection.

Comprehensive coverage across the globe

Country-based navigation makes it easy to locate the exact

information you need. Within each country there are five main

channels covering the following categories:

Politics

Economy

Business

Finance

Regulations

What countries and regions are covered?

Americas

Africa and the Middle East

Asia and Australasia