Monday, February 13, 2012

Promoting your research






Do you have:
Digital datasets on local hard drives, USB sticks etc?
Physical datasets such as paper documents or lab samples?
Would you like:
Free, secure, sustainable digital data storage which you control?
Help promoting your research?

Contact Health Sciences Faculty Liaison Librarians , Belinda Norman or Kate Stanton to see if we can help raise your profile by making information about your research findable in Google, and in Research Data Australia (http://services.ands.org.au/home/orca/rda/ ), a national showcase of research. Following is some information on the project.


Seeding the Commons Project.

The federally funded Seeding the Commons project will help establish data management planning processes to support storage, identification, discovery and, where appropriate, sharing of primary research data. Partners include Research Portfolio, Library and ICT.

Project Activities:
· Description of research data collections for discovery on the web
· Creation of a data management planning tutorial
· Website providing research data management support
· Guidelines to support research data management

Project staff will work to deliver the following benefits:
· Information about researchers and projects will be findable in Google, increasing profile and collaboration opportunities.
· Increased impact through data citation.
· Reduced risk of data loss through data management storage and support.
· Establishment of ongoing research data management services.

We'd like to interview you, in order to describe your data collections for discovery on the web. For more information, Contact Health Sciences Faculty Liaison Librarian, Belinda Norman or Kate Stanton.
For further information please visit our promoting sydney research: seeding the commons

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Hot Off the Press!

Take a look at this new titles we recieved for this month.



Resilience and mental health : challenges across the lifespan / edited by Steven M. Southwick ... [et al.].


AIDS in Asia / edited by Yichen Lu, Max Essex.



Designing telehealth for an aging population : a human factors perspective / Neil Charness, George Demiris, Elizabeth Krupinski



Sex & disability : politics, identity and access / edited by Russell Shuttleworth and Teela

Monday, November 21, 2011

Latest Books

Take a look at this new titles we recieved for this month.


Quantitative MRI in cancer / edited by Thomas E. Yankeelov, David R. Pickens, Ronald R. Price.



Getting started in health research / David Bowers, Allan House, David Owens



Thursday, November 17, 2011

Opening Hours over the Break

The Health Sciences Library Opening Hours are changing

From the 19th November to the 4th March
Mon - Fri
9am - 5 pm

Sat & Sun
Closed

Please note that the University will shutdown from the 19th December to the 2nd of January.

For other University of Sydney Libraries opening hours please see http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Open Access: Learn. Share. Grow - Presentations are available to view

Presentations of the Open Access week event that we held on Friday 28 October are now available to view.

Open Access (OA) is an important global trend where researchers choose to provide free online access to their publications. To celebrate Open Access Week all research-active staff and students are invited to presentations by academic colleagues Simon Chapman, Martijn de Sterke, Alex Holcombe, Matt Todd and Goetz Richter who are harnessing the power of OA to extend their research influence and grow their citation rates. Learn about the benefits of OA for scholarly collaboration; the open science movement; the important of OA for disciplines striving for recognition; and combining social media and OA to increase exposure.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Trial access to the Book Citation Index

Book Citation Index via Web of Science
· Coverage of over 25,000 editorially selected books, starting with publication year 2005
· Comprehensive cited reference search
· Times Cited counts for books and book chapters
· Full bibliographies from books and book chapters
The trial ends on 5 December 2011.Please fill out the Database Evaluation Form – or contact the Library for further information.

Trial access to Alexander Street video collections

Access has been set up on the trials page until 2 December.

We have access to both the trial collections and the products to which we already subscribe. You can either cross-search them all, or use the “Go to” pick list to open a specific collection.

Trial collections:

• Art and Architecture in Video Online
• Business and Economics Video Online
• Psychology Video Online
• Science Video Online

Our subscriptions:

Counseling and Therapy in Video – has 319 titles
Ethnographic Video Online – has 556 titles
Opera in Video – has 147 titles

Please fill out the Database Evaluation Form – or contact the Library for further information.