Peer Review is a vitally important part of any scholarly work as it helps to maintain research quality. This year’s theme for PRW is “Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research.”  Peer review shapes how researchers and the general public view individual studies and scientific research as…

QUT Library’s Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) and the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity (OREI) are once again offering training sessions for Higher Degree Research (HDR) students and Early Career Researchers on Authorship, Peer Review and Publication.  Session 1:  Authorship, Peer Review and Publication: Presubmission Mon 12…

Coming soon!  Two workshops on accessing and using Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) datasets, tools and resources. QUT Library is funding 1 x two hour workshop and 1 x two hour information session aimed at current and future users of ABS data.  Both sessions are applicable for HDR…

This year, SAGE is offering eleven cash prizes for the top research outputs produced and published by a Higher Degree Research (HDR) student (conditions apply). There will be five prizes of $400 awarded: one each to the top published paper in each of the five Faculties and $400…

Important information below about the latest version of EndNote. EndNote version 20.3  now available. EndNote version 20.3  for Windows and macOS is available to install using ITassist on QUT machines, or download to your own device from here, and will be available in labs shortly. 20.3 works pretty…

HDR students will have an opportunity to have their say to inform research skills training for HDRs. The HDR Students Research Skills Survey will be open from to July 4  to July 15 Providing quick multiple choice, as well as optional free text answers,…

Guest post from Liaison Librarian, Graham Dawson Paperpile is a modern, full-featured, intuitive, easy to use, cloud-hosted personal bibliographic reference management system. Born in the Google ecosystem, Paperpile seamlessly syncs with Google Drive and integrates with Google Docs. You need a Google account to use Paperpile. Sign up…

The 23 Scholarly Communication Things Pressbook, developed by QUT Library, launches today!  This resource is for anyone with an interest in learning more about the scholarly communication process and is intended as a doorway to the scholarly publishing lifecycle, rather than as a how-to guide. This resource is…

From 14-18 February, QUT Library will be celebrating the role research data plays in improving the lives of people around the world by adopting the international theme of ‘Data is for everyone’.  The purpose of Love Data Week is to raise awareness and build a community to engage…

Did you know there’s a whole list of academic book publishers who allow authors to add their chapter to their own institutional repository, effectively making their work open access? There are conditions and in some cases exclusions and embargoes, but this option is worth investigating if you…