To QUT Faculty of Business – Every best wish to you for a much-needed Christmas break and a wonderful 2009.

 A Christmas Tree from your Librarian

Zotero : The Next-Generation Research Tool

Zotero http://www.zotero.org/is a free, open source extension for the Firefox browser, that

enables users to collect, manage, and cite research from all types of sources from the

browser. It is partly a piece of reference management software, used to manage

bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. On many major research

websites such as digital libraries, Google Scholar , Google Books, Amazon.com, and

even Wikipedia, Zotero detects when a book, article, or other resource is being viewed and

with a mouse click finds and saves the full reference information to a local file. If the source

is an online article or web page, Zotero can optionally store a local copy of the source. Users

can then add notes, tags, and their own metadata through the in-browser interface. Selections

of the local reference library data can later be exported as formatted bibliographies.

The program is produced by the Center for History and New Media of George Mason

University and is currently available in public beta. It is open and extensible, allowing other

users to contribute citation styles and site translators, and more generally for others who are

building digital tools for researchers to expand the platform. The name is from Albanian

language “to master”.

It is aimed at replacing the more cumbersome traditional reference management software,

originally designed to meet the demands of offline research (e.g. Endnote)

(Zotero. (2007, November 27). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved November

30, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zotero&oldid=174184021)

 

 

 

 

 

Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature

http://www.tictocs.ac.uk 

Posted - by Roddy MacLeod regarding new Table of Contents service.

ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service.  It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 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, and in addition you can import article citations into RefWorks (where institutional or personal subscriptions allow).

 

      You select TOCs by ticking those of interest – thousands of TOCs, within a tick or two (hence the name ticTOCs).     

 

      ticTOCs has been funded under the JISC Users & Innovations programme, and has been developed by an international consortium consisting of the University of Liverpool Library (lead), Heriot-Watt University, CrossRef, ProQuest, Emerald, RefWorks, MIMAS, Cranfield University, Institute of Physics, SAGE Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Open J-Gate, and Intute.

 

For the full press release, please see: 

 

http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/scholarly-journals-new-free-service-makes-keeping-up-to-date-easy/ <http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/scholarly-journals-new-free-service-makes-keeping-up-to-date-easy/> 

 

New QUT ePrints interface

The move to the later release of EPrints software gave us the opportunity to progress our plans for merging the repository deposit process with the HERDC reporting process.   In the long-term, the will reduce some of the double-handling that  is currently taking place with regards to reporting of publication data.  However, it has impacted on the the deposit process and the search/browse functionality.

 

More information will be required for items nominated for inclusion in the HERDC.    For HERDC, the Office of Research needs to have Faculty/School/Institute/Centre affiliation information at the author level instead of the paper level.  This caused problems for the advanced search feature  (as the existing records will have this information in a different field)  

 

To address this, we have now created a new search feature called “Affiliation“.  This will gather together all records that include the specified affiliation (eg CARRS-Q).  Of course, it assumes that the relevant affiliation data w ill be entered by the depositor. You will find the Affiliation search in the left-hand margin of the new QUT ePrints home page.

 

 

 

You can  also  access this feature directly via this link:  http://eprints.qut.edu.au/cgi/affiliation_report/

 

The feature allows you to nominate an affiliation and limit the search to retrieve specific document types and/or date ranges.  It is quite slow (as it involves a lot of database checking) - but it does work.  Future plans  include offering a list of affiliations to select from when a name is entered in the deposit form and the ability to create an rss feed from reports.

 

This Affiliation search gathers together all the records that meet the search criteria specified.  If  a Faculty (School. Institute or Centre) wishes to have a link to all  their publications in QUT ePrints,  they can run andAffiliation search and then copy the URL from the address box.  Ideally,  they would then hide the full URL behind some text.

 

 eg:  CARRS-Q Publications in QUT ePrints

 

 

instead of:  http://eprints.qut.edu.au/cgi/affiliation_report/?divisions=carrs-q&divisions_merge=ALL&date=&_action_search=Generate+report

 

 

We welcome your feedback on this.   

 

HERDC Integration:  This is still a work in progress.    So far, we have implemented a system of genrating a semi- completed HERDC form from any records in QUT ePrints.  Anyone with a QUT staff username and password can generate the form.  It does  not  have to be the author or even the depositor.  The link to the form can be found at the bottom right of each record: