AccessEngineering database improvements

AccessEngineering 2.0 features a number of customer-requested enhancements, including:                                                                   

• A new user interface offering a streamlined, easy-to-navigate design and superior functionality.
• The addition of a new subject category: Software Engineering.
• Multimedia resources including instructor ancillaries, PowerPoint presentations, videos, podcasts, and more.
• Articles from McGraw-Hill’s Engineering News-Record (ENR) covering Environment, Water, Power, and Infrastructure. New articles will be posted weekly, and approximately 500 articles will be archived and available immediately.
• An Image Bank of four-color images, which will be updated monthly.
• Full author biographies

The complete contents of the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Science and Technology, offering more than 50,000 terms

http://www.library.qut.edu.au/find/databases/fullrecord.jsp?id=5518

Have you discovered BONUS+

QUT Library has introduced BONUS+, a new service which allows you & your students to borrow books from selected Australian and New Zealand university libraries.

If you can’t find a book in the  QUT Library, simply search the  BONUS+ catalogue; request it online from one of the participating university libraries;  and have it delivered to your preferred QUT pickup location.

There is a link to search the from the QUT library catalogue or you can search the BONUS+ catalogue directly at https://bonus.newcastle.edu.au/. For more information, about placing a request and delivery times, refer to: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/services/delivery/bonusplus.jsp .

InfoScholar – info skills help for seasoned students

InfoScholar is an online information skills module (available via Blackboard) designed to help students develop advanced skills in finding and analysing information. Topics include:

• define your research topic
• design a search strategy
• carry out searches of information sources using a range of tools
• evaluate your search results
• identify methodologies, key sources and practitioners in your discipline area
• analyse and comment on work found
• identify avenues for further research
• understand the importance of citing the sources you use

It can be used in the students’ own time and can easily be adapted to suit a specific purpose. It is especially useful for research students or students in the later years of their degrees.

Academic staff: Link to InfoScholar from your Blackboard sites

Find InfoScholar here or do a Community search for “infoscholar” in Blackboard.

InfoScholar builds on PILOT which is aimed at students early in their academic life.

EBSCOhost Mobile

EBSCOhost have developed a new user interface that allows you to do your research on the move.  EBSCOhost Mobile is tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices, and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality, right in the palm of your hand! You will need to connect to EBSCOhost Mobile via a specific URL for mobile devices which you can find here.

For more information you can check out  this FAQ and learn about:

• the features of EBSCOhost Mobile
• which devices are supported

One Stop Searching!

QUT Library is evaluating a new search tool, which would allow you to search the library catalogue for books and articles at the same time, using one search screen (kind of like Google).

To try it out using the Dartmouth or Liverpool library catalogues, and to leave feedback about what you liked and didn’t like go to http://libguides.library.qut.edu.au/content.php?pid=69763