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IEEE xplore digital library one of the world's largest collections of scholarly technical literature in engineering and technology, has now reached 3 million documents - IEEE Xplore has grown significantly in recent years.

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UK universities and other research institutions have posted a lot of academic, educational and research information in a range of systems similar to our own UQ eSpace repository. A search tool has now been developed to make this material more accessible. The tool runs a federated search across the more than 130 repositories included.

Grey literature is information produced by all levels of government, academia, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing. Much of this data is potentially useful for research, but identifying it and tracking it down can be tricky.

The Grey Literature Network Service was founded in 1992 to solve this problem. It provides an online search service for grey literature. It includes input from large national library bodies.

The British Universities Film & Video Council host and curate nine online databases of film, television and radio content dating from 1896 onwards. The Council have now provided a federated search to the more than 13 million records in these databases. It is also possible to search within one collection rather than across them all. Not all collections make material openly available.

Collections include:

The Introduction to Research Skills training session will be held this Friday. Participants will be introduced to the range of specialist resources available. There will also be the opportunity undertake searches for topic specific information.

Day: Friday 25 March 2011-03-22

Time: 10am - 12md

Where: Gatton Campus Library, eZone 1.

Feeling a little lost about using the Library. During the next couple of weeks you can attend a face to face class in "Getting Started in the Library" and then go on to a class on "Finding Journal Articles for Your Assignments". The dates and times are advertised on the Library's training calendar.