Reaxys will present a workshop at UQ Library.

The Library has recently subscribed to LexisNexis Practical Guidance, a research tool that offers modules in a range of practice areas. Use this resource to discover practice-related checklists, legislation, case law and commentary. As the name suggests, this resource also offers practioner guidance throughout.

UQ Library is trialling AccessEngineering until 5 March 2013. AccessEngineering provides:

Knovel provides access to essential reference works and databases from leading publishers and professional societies covering the fields of engineering, chemistry and the life sciences. The collection is continually expanding.

The online version of 'Register of Australian Mining' provides a comprehensive analysis of all mines, projects and prospects in Australia.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that Inspec, its database indexing science and engineering research, has reached 13 million records. Inspec adds approximately 700,000 new records each year, indexing scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics and information technology from 1896.

Scifinder now includes predicted as well as experimental data, giving you access to a huge range of data and spectra.

To date there are 3.7 billion predicted values (for 56.2 million substances) and 4.5 million experimental values (for 3.0 million substances) in the database.

For spectra there are over 100 million predicted spectra and 1.1 million experimental spectra.

Are you a new RHD or researcher? Not sure which databases to search in your area? Come to an advanced database workshop:

• Workshop: Finding research information: the next level (engineering & sciences)
• Date: Tuesday 16 October 2012, 9.30 - 11.00am
• Where: eZones, Level 2, Biological Sciences Library (Building 94)

Book online

The workshop will cover:

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.

This video animation from RMIT is aimed at first year undergraduate university students but also has applications for secondary school students.

It can be viewed via Youtube or Vimeo