1 hour advanced workshops on specific topics or specific databases.

Bookings are not required for these classes.

For classes on EndNote: See the UQ Library EndNote Training page.

Keeping Current
Tracking the latest research on your topic

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Use a number of tools to identify and access current information and recent publications
• Understand what alerting services are, why they are used, and how to use them
• Search and retrieve full text articles using the SwetsWise Database
• Use the SwetsWise alerting service function to create table of contents alerts for specific journal titles and SDI (keyword) alerts on a subject or topic

eJournals & Alerting Services
Find out how to access electronic journals from your office or home. Learn how to set up alerting services to help you track the latest research in your field.

By the end of this session participants will be able to:

• Find electronic journals through a search on the library catalogue
• Interpret the catalogue record to find out which years are available and how many concurrent users are allowed
• Find usernames or passwords if required
• Connect to the e-journals from office or home computers
• Download fulltext of articles

Finding Psychological and Educational Tests for Your Research Assignments

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Locate and access psychological and educational tests using Library gateways
• Locate reviews of psychological and educational tests using Library gateways
• Locate details of publishers of psychological and educational tests using Library gateways
• Understand terminology and citations used in printed references books on testing
• Locating tests and test information through databases such as Psycinfo

Finding Newspaper Articles for Your Research Assignments- Quick Help Session

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Locate and access newspapers using Library gateways
• Search and retrieve articles from Factiva
• Retrieve full text newspaper articles from Australia New Zealand Reference Centre (ANZRC)
• Access PressDisplay database
• Retrieve online news broadcasts such as archived sources such as ABC & BBC News

Online books - Finding eBooks for Your Research Assignments- Quick Help Session
How to locate eBooks in the UQ Library

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Locate, identify and access online books in the library catalogue
• Search through, print and copy from the text of online books
• Locate, access and search a number of different online book databases

Finding Manuscripts and Other Primary Material for Your Research Assignments

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Determine when it is appropriate to use primary materials, and undertand the differences between primary and secondary materials
• Search for archival/manuscript material in Fryer using the library catalogue
• Locate, access and search local and national databases of archival/manuscript material (eg RAAM, Mitchell Library) and pictorial material (eg Picture Australia)
• Understand the way in which archival/manuscript material is organised
• Interpret archival/manuscript finding aids and listings

Finding Theses
How to locate Theses submitted at UQ and elsewhere

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Locate and access theses submitted at UQ using the Library catalogue
• Locate and access other Australian theses using Australian Digital Theses (ADT), Kinetica and the Union List of Higher Degree Theses
• Search the Proquest Digital Dissertations database to locate and access international theses
• Search the Index to Theses database to locate and access British theses

Finding Who is Citing Whom in the socieal Sciences and the Humanities
Discover how to use the Web of Knowledge

Statistics and Data - Quick Help Session
On Life, Death and Taxes: simple ways to find Australian Statistics on nearly everything

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Identify various library guides and gateways to statistical resources
• Search and browse the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website to find Australian statistics
• Construct a basic search for international data on the World Development Indicators database
• Identify the appropriate library contacts for further help with statistical data in their area

Australian Company Information - Everybody's business
Finding business and company information online

By the end of the session, participants will be able to

• Search and retrieve company information from Connect4 and Aspect Financial databases
• Search and retrieve articles about companies using Business databases such as ABI/Inform
• Use the Library as a gateway to identify websites that provide company information