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Dear Staff Member,
You are invited to attend the research support workshop Managing Research Data
Presented by:

Paula Callan : eResearch Access Coordinator, Library
Lance De Vine :  IT Specialist – Research Support, High Performance Computing

Benefits to researchers
Most research data is now ‘born digital’ which means it is vulnerable, yet researchers are obliged to retain the data for up [...]

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Articles of interest

‘ERA results a rank tool for students’ (The Australian)
The article makes the point that, in the future, each University’s quality ranking for specific disciplines (based on ERA) will influence student enrolments.
Current status indicators gives no indication of the strength of any specific discipline within the University. Many students have enrolled at a prestigious university only [...]

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The Australian Research Council (ARC) has recently announced that Scopus will provide citation information for the full Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative in 2010.
QUT Library is now considering a subscription to Scopus for 2010 as we currently do not have access.  
For more about ERA go to http://www.arc.gov.au/era/default.htm

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Win a $50 Merlo or Beadles Voucher!
The Library would like to hear some positive stories about your QUT ePrint experience.  This feedback will help us encourage others in the QUT research community to see that self archiving their publications in QUT ePrints has many benefits.
 To enter the competition, simply send us a few phrases or [...]

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Dear Academic Staff Member,
This is a reminder to submit Course Materials Database (CMD) requests for Summer Semester and Semester 1, 2010.
Please note the upcoming submission dates for Summer Semester and Semester 1, 2010 units:
Summer Semester units:
 New CMD requests – to be submitted now
 Self activate single documents – to be completed now
Semester 1, 2010 [...]

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This is a generic research support seminar that will outline how to manage your research data.
When: Thursday 10 December 2009, 10:30am – 11:30am
Where: R614 (Library, KG Campus)
Presented by:
Paula Callan : eResearch Access Coordinator, Library.
Lance De Vine : IT Specialist, Research Support, High Performance Computing.
This workshop will discuss the main issues that should be the focus [...]

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New EBSCOHost mobile interface

EBSCOHost are excited to announce that the anticipated new interface for mobile users, EBSCOhost Mobile, is here! The new EBSCOhost application is tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices, and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality, right in the palm of your hand!
To get started on using your mobile device to access [...]

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Dear staff member,
You’re invited to attend the research support seminar “Using the online survey tool Key Survey, for research”.  Key Survey is easy to use software that delivers all the features you need to conduct sophisticated online surveys.
Presented by:
• Ray Duplock – Survey methodology essentials for research
• Bernadette Savage – Online surveys and qualitative analysis
• [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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