• Nature podcast: Every week Nature publishes a free audio show highlighting content from the week's edition of Nature e.g. interviews with the people behind the science. Nature is a weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. Access the Library's subscription to Nature.

In addition to discovering US patents, Google Patents is now searching the European Patent Office as well. A new feature of this search engine is the Prior Art Finder, a great tool that allows to determine the novelty of a patent.

The Prior Art Finder identifies key phrases from the text of the patent, combines them into a search query, and displays relevant results from Google Patents, Google Scholar, Google Books, and the rest of the web.

The Library has access to Chinese Academic Journals as a trial until December 2012.

Chinese Academic Journals contains several subject-based Chinese journal collections. UQ has access to full-text articles in: Literature/History/Philosophy, Economics/Politics/Law, and, Education/Social Science. These broad subject areas are further broken down into more specific collections.

Find it hard to keep up with latest Google search enhancements that may improve your information discovery? Try these links:

SpringerMaterials based on the Landolt-Börnstein New Series is the world's largest resource for materials data: compiled, written and quality-checked by experts. With SpringerMaterials you can:

Based on the usage of millions of researchers from many different institutions around the world, the bX Journal Popularity Report provides a list of the most used 50,000 journals in a quarter.

On Monday 23rd April, 2012, a new International Standards Office (ISO) standard was authorised - ISO 26324:2012

DOI is an acronym for "digital object identifier".

The formal explanation from ISO is "specifies the syntax, description and resolution functional components of the digital object identifier system, and the general principles for the creation, registration and administration of DOI names.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics provides access to Census 2011 data. The Census of Population and Housing is a descriptive count of everyone who is in Australia on one night, and of their dwellings.

EndNote & EndNote Web for Engineering and Physical Sciences

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for 2011 has been released. Journal Citation Reports uses Web of Science citation data to evaluate and compare scholarly journals. The 2011 release features the largest-ever JCR with 10,677 journal listings in 232 disciplines; 2,552 publishers from 82 countries are represented. A total of 528 journals receive their first Journal Impact Factor in this latest JCR release.