Professor Carol Tenopir will visit The University of Queensland to present her report on the Journal Use and Reading Patterns Survey, conducted in 2012.

The Survey asked questions about the reading of scholarly articles from both print and electronic sources by academic staff and undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The University of Queensland was selected as one of two Australian universities to participate in the study. The results of the study will contribute to international research on the reading of scholarly journal articles.

Access the full-text of 14 journals from the International Water Association. Direct access is available for each journal from the catalogue with the access start date.

Just launched is the new open-access scientific journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Elementa aims to facilitate scientific solutions to the challenges presented by this era of accelerated human impact on natural systems. It is committed to the rapid publication of technically sound, peer-reviewed articles that address interactions between human and natural systems and behaviors (Elementa, Feb 2013). Submission will be accepted April 2013

F1000Research (launched 2013) is an original open-access publishing program for life scientists it offers:

• Immediate publication
• Transparent peer review (post-publication)
• Full data deposition and sharing

Other service on this platform includes:

F1000Posters an open access repository of conference posters and oral presentations from across biology and medicine. F10000 claims that by depositing you poster it will:

Retraction Watch is a blog which seeks to highlight the latest scientific retractions. The blog started in August 2010 by Ivan Oransky (executive editor of Reuters Heath and teachers medical journalism a New York University) and Adam Marcus (managing editor of Anaesthesiology News).

So why a blog on retractions?

On the 13th December the latest open-access journal eLife was official launched. A press release yesterday stated eLife, the open-access journal for outstanding advances in life sciences and biomedicine reveals a fresh approach to presenting and using scientific content on its new website.

eLife aims to provide a journal portal that invites visitors to

SAGE Open Engineering is a new Open Access peer-reviewed journal designed for the publication of high quality research in all areas of engineering. SAGE is a large international academic publisher of journals, books and electronic media in all subject areas. Access UQ Library's SAGE subscription journals.

The consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP) has negotiated that nearly all particle-physics articles will be immediately free on journal websites from 2014. This impacts researchers, meaning individual groups will not need to arrange open publication of their work. Peter Suber an advocate of open access stated "It is the most systematic attempt to convert all the journals in a given field to open access"(Nature|News, Sept 2012) To read further go to

Hindawi Publishing Corporation founded in 1997, was the first subscription publisher to convert its entire portfolio of journals to Open Access. Now in 2012, publishing over 400 open access journals. This interview with Ahmed Hindawi provides an insight into the development of open access journals. The interview is available on Richard Poynder blog Open and Shut.