Search Like an Expert

A successful search strategy involves more than searching for terms on Internet search engines such as Google. The answer to successful web searching is not so much a better search engine, but a strategy that involves different tools and probably a different mindset. Whenever you search, think first about what you hope to achieve. Are you looking for a fact? A brief introduction to a subject? Deep background? You will need different strategies for each

UQ eSpace Users - Frequently Asked Questions

A FAQ on how to use the UQ eSpace repository

Mining Rich Seams of Information

A successful search strategy involves more than searching for terms on Internet search engines such as Google. The answer to successful web searching is not so much a better search engine, but a strategy that involves different tools and probably a different mindset. Whenever you search, think first about what you hope to achieve. Are you looking for a fact? A brief introduction to a subject? Deep background? You will need different strategies for each

Migrating eprints.org data to a Fez repository

This document records the process of migrating eprints.org data to a Fez repository. Fez is a Web-based digital repository and workflow management system based on Fedora (http://www.fedora.info/). At the time of migration, the University of Queensland Library was using EPrints 2.2.1 [pepper] for its ePrintsUQ repository. Once we began to develop Fez, we did not upgrade to later versions of eprints.org software since we knew we would be migrating data from ePrintsUQ to the Fez-based UQ eSpace. Since this document records our experiences of migration from an earlier version of eprints.org, anyone seeking to migrate eprints.org data into a Fez repository might encounter some small differences. Moving UQ publication data from an eprints.org repository into a Fez repository (hereafter called UQ eSpace (http://espace.uq.edu.au/) was part of a plan to integrate metadata (and, in some cases, full texts) about all UQ research outputs, including theses, images, multimedia and datasets, in a single repository. This tied in with the plan to identify and capture the research output of a single institution, the main task of the eScholarshipUQ testbed for the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories project (http://www.apsr.edu.au/). The migration could not occur at UQ until the functionality in Fez was at least equal to that of the existing ePrintsUQ repository. Accordingly, as Fez development occurred throughout 2006, a list of eprints.org functionality not currently supported in Fez was created so that programming of such development could be planned for and implemented

Yearbooks RIP

The author looks at the decision by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to terminate many print publications, such as state and territory yearbooks, now that their strategy is to go 'all-electronic'

The Web Library: Building A World Class Personal Library With Free Web Resources By Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo (review)

A review of this book which states that librarians should stop paying for some resources and start using materials freely available online

The Holy Grail Goes Digital

The article looks at the growth of digital replica editions of newspapers such as News Corporation's "The Australian"