Library launches Intranet site for staff

The Library recently launched its Internet site for staff. The site provides information about library services that are relevant to staff including: library contacts, copyright, art collection and adding items to the collection.  There is a link on the main Internet page under Services or click here.

Research Training

Research Ambassadors have an ongoing program of workshops for students, check out the schedule on their Libguide

SciFinder Enhancement

SciFinder now includes experimental procedures from Springer journals through an agreement between Springer and CAS.

Latest Taylor and Francis Aquatic Bulletin

For the latest Taylor and Francis  Aquatic Bulletin of new books and journals, read here

Research Adviser Initiative

CAUDIT launches a cloud technology service to connect research students and academics with services, projects and initiatives to support their research.  More info 

Library information for staff

The new library intranet site is now live at http://intranet.vu.edu.au/library/ The site contains content intended specifically for staff, a lot of which is not (or will no longer be) available on the WWW site.  Content includes contact details, copyright information and forms for example requesting to get items added to Reserve, eReserve and video streaming.

Engineers Without Borders Open Access Forum.

A round-table forum on the EWB Institute's Open Journal Project is being held on 13th June. The invitation has gone out to Information Managers, librarians and interested members of the Open Access Community.

Date: Thursday 13 June, 2013

Time: 1.30 to 3.30pm // (Optional: 12.30pm for lunch at a nearby cafe)

Where: Engineers Without Borders Australia, 99 Howard St, North Melbourne (near the Vic Markets - 57 Tram)

Who: This is an open forum for people interested in Open Access publishing, with particular input requested from librarians, database and information managers

Cost: Nil

RSVP: Rebecca Parker, Swinburne University of Technology - Phone: +61 3 9214 4806 / Email: rparker@swin.edu.au

New online videos

Kanopy, the library's streaming vendor has acquired more online science and computing videos. You can view their catalogue here.  Please send any requests to me.

Science and IT videos available for streaming.

An online video collection in Science and IT is available for preview. Let me know if you want any of the collection.  Click here to preview.

Research meets the real world – now comes the hard part

"So you’re just recovering from the last ERA (Excellence for Research Australia) assessment? Dust yourself off, Excellence in Innovation for Australia (EIA) is heading our way.  Santina Bertone, Associate Dean (Research) at Swinburne University of Technology, discusses the 'new paradigm' for measuring research and its implications for both funding and future research. Read the full article.

2013 Insync Survey dates announced

12-23 August 2013 is the period set for the next Insync Survey.

The library runs this client satisfaction survey every 2 years. It is designed to capture staff and student feedback about library services, facilities and resources. The results of the survey help identify any gaps and improve services. More information will be communicated closer to the dates.

New tool to help organise data.

Digital Science, part of Macmillan Publishing has developed a new tool to help organise research data. Projects has been designed for scientific research data in particular. It is available for Macs only at this stage. More information