On November 22nd, The Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature was given to Herb Wharton.

As advertised in yesterday's The Australian, a call for applications has been announced for the 2013 Fryer Library award.

Each year the Fryer Library awards $10 000 and provides institutional support for a successful applicant to undertake research in Australian literature, history and culture, using the collections of the Fryer Library.

Following Julia Gillard's announcement of the establishment of a Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, the below resources might be of interest to students:

ScienceDirect has provided free access to the 2012 Nobel Laureates most-cited ground-breaking research published in Elsevier journals in recognition of these extraordinary scholars and their contributions to science i

Please be aware Westlaw AU will be taken off line this evening (Wednesday 24th October) for unscheduled maintenance. The outage will take place some time between 9pm & 11pm and last for 30 minutes.

Thomson Reuters apologises for the inconvenience.

The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum has launched a new online catalogue, which includes records of over 26 000 items from the Museum's ethnographic, photographic and lithic collections.

The catalogue is available to the public via a new website: www.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/ .

In The Conversation on the 26th September 2012, Alex O. Holcombe and Matthew Todd published an open letter to the Australian Research Council on why scientific data should be shared.

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.