Lowitja Institute: Australia's National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research

LIt. Search is designed to make finding research on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health as easy as clicking on a web link. LIt.search has been rigorously developed and tested to retrieve information from the PubMed database.

Health Sciences: Research Checklist

The Health Science Libraries have just made live a new page called Health Sciences: Research Checklist. This is with the aim to help support the UQ research experience. The page contains a skills audit checklist, information on Theses, Document Delivery, Referencing, Data Management, Metrics and Systematic Reviews. Please take the time to explore this page.

Open Access

The Scholarly Publishing and Digitisation Service contributes to research excellence at UQ. In partnership with the Library's Research Information Service, we provide advice and support in a range of areas including citation metrics, scholarly publishing, open access, digitisation, repositories and research data management.

The Australian Federal Government Strategic Research Priorities

The Strategic Research Priorities (SRPs) were announced by the Australian Government on 21 June 2013. These priorities may have an impact on future research grant applications and will come into affect on 1 July 2013. For further information please visit their website.

"Promoting population health and wellbeing" has been identified as one of five key areas of priority by the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC).

Training for Semester 2, 2013

We are trialing two live online Endnote sessions (via Adobe Connect Virtual Meeting Room) - they are on the 21 of August & 20 of November. These sessions will suit distance education students, busy professionals who find it hard to leave their office or staff who work part-time and might be having a day off. Please sign up by visiting the training page on the library web page.

New Resource of interest in the Library

The library has recently purchased copies of "The research funding toolkit" by Jacqueline Aldridge & Andrew M. Derrington. This might be of interest to anyone looking at grant applications and funding of research.

New Librarian for the School of Population Health.

As of January 2013, a new librarian has been appointed to the School of Population Health, Mr Scott Macintyre. Please feel free to contact him for any research or library queries.

New Resource Trials

Faculty of 1000

Faculty of 1000 is peer review service that comprehensively and systematically highlights and evaluates journal articles published in the biomedical sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of scientists and clinicians.

It is on trial to University of Queensland staff and students until 31st December 2012.

PsycTESTS

PsycTESTS provides descriptive summaries, full text, and citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching. It is a repository for the full text of psychological tests and measures as well as a source of structured information about tests of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work.

It is on trial to University of Queensland staff and students until 22nd August 2012.