New Fracking video available.

 Fractured Country: An Unconventional Invasion, an online  video on the impact of fracking is now available via the library catalogue.

VU hosts the 19th International Association of Packaging Research Institutes

The Engineered Packaging and Distribution Research Group, VU is organising the 19th IAPI conference 15-18 June, 2014.  See the website for more information and program details.

Have you thought about recording a video abstract for your paper?

Wiley's marketing team analysed articles with video abstracts and found that those with video abstracts had substantially more downloads.  Read more  . . .

How to increase media coverage of your research outputs

Publicist, Ben Norman provides 10 tips for increasing news worthiness of your publications in a recent Wiley blog.  Read more . . .

New director for arXiv

A timely reminder of the value of arXiv.  Cornell University Library has announced the appointment of Dr. Chris Myers as interim scientific director of arXiv. arXiv repository was one of the world's first university repository offering open access to all of the papers deposited in it. arXiv was started in 1991 with 71 papers submitted. In 2014 it receives between seven and over eight thousand submissions per month. arXiv covers mathematics, computer science, nonlinear science, quantitative biology and statistics.

Crowdfunding for research

In the latest blog from Wiley Exchanges, Denny Luan is interviewed about the creation of Experiment a platform for facilitating funding for science research.  Read more . . . 

Need a refresher in using SciFinder?

Victoria University Library is holding a training session for chemistry database SciFinder at Footscray Park Library on Wednesday 28 May.

A representative for SciFinder, the database from the Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society, will conduct the training session. SciFinder provides access to a collection of chemistry and related science information and includes a search for substances, reactions, and patent and journal references.

If you would like to attend, please contact Gail James on 9919 2665.

When: Wednesday 28 May at 4pm

Where: Footscray Park Library, room P307 (training room on 3^rd level)

Session details:

Reference search

•                 Research topics example

Substance search

•                 Chemical name example 

•                 Exact structure and substructure example

Reaction search

•                 Drawing reaction tool

•                 Reaction example

Brief overview of new SciFinder Features/Enhancements