One of the great health-related puzzles of our time has been answered. New Zealand researchers have published a cohort study in the eminent journal BMJ’s satirical December edition addressing the question that puzzles those who frequent doctors’ waiting rooms: Why are the available magazines always so old? And it seems…
Finding those elusive spatial datasets is now so easy!
Spatial Data Finder is a new online tool that makes it easy for QUT researchers to find and access information about spatial research datasets. Records published in Spatial Data Finder are also published in Research Data Australia (RDA), which is the national registry of research datasets. QUT Library has…
Strategic analysis at your fingertips
SciVal is a web-based strategic analysis tool that is based on Scopus data. SciVal makes it easier to analyse research performance at an individual, group or institutional level. It has three modules that offer quick, easy access to the research performance of 4600 research institutions and over 200…
Look out, behind you! It’s some Bad Science!
As we all know, evaluating your resources is an important part of the research process. However, all resources aren’t created equal so how do you know whether what you’ve found is good or bad on the spectrum of quality? Firstly you can attend a class in the QUT…
Get the inside track on publishing your work with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. QUT Library is excited to host a webinar presented by Jalyn Kelley, IEEE Client Services Manager, for HDR students, postdocs and researchers keen to…
Finding online video for your study
I like reading as much as the next librarian but sometimes words on a page (or a screen) just aren’t enough. At uni reading textbooks is the usual way most of us learn about a new topic because they give us a broader theoretical overview of subject information. The…
Read the newspaper at the library
You can find a range of major Australian newspapers in the newspaper reading area at each campus library. The Courier Mail and Sunday Mail, the Australian and Australian Financial Review are available at all libraries. Additionally Gardens Point library holds The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the West…
BlackWords and AustLit talk to QUT Grad Ellen van Neerven
QUT Creative Writing graduate Ellen van Neerven was recently interviewed by Dr Anita Heiss as part of the insightful series “In Conversation with BlackWords.” Ellen is an up-and-coming author who won the David Unaipon Award in 2013 which honored the unpublished manuscript of her novel Heat and Light.…