2008 ACCESS Christmas Lunch

2008 ACCESS Christmas Lunch

Where: Zen Bar

Park Level
Post Office Square
215 Adelaide St
Brisbane

Time: 12pm

Date: Thursday 27th November

RSVP: 24th November with meal selection, desserts do not need to be pre-ordered

Nominations for President & Secretary

Melissa Porritt has decided to step down as President for the ACCESS Group after 3 years of service. Thank you Melissa!

The group would like to invite any nominations for President or Secretary.

Please contact Loretta Atkinson if you are interested.

AaeE Newletter - August 2008

The Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AaeE) August newsletter is now available.

Find the newsletter here.

ACCESS Group Meeting - October

The next ACCESS meeting will be held on Wednesday 1 October, 12pm-2pm. Melissa Porritt has kindly offered to host the meeting at Sinclair Knight Mertz.

Street address:
32 Cordelia Street
South Brisbane QLD 4101

Those attending the meeting are asked to meet on the ground floor.

Melissa will be showing the group around her new premises and we will be discussing the future of the ACCESS Group. Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to Loretta Atkinson if you would like to attend by the 29 September. Also please let me know if there is anything you would like to discuss at the meeting.

2008 Year of the Engineering Team

The Engineering Team Task Force have put together an online Blog to help facilitate communications between the members of Engineers Australia and the Engineering Team Task Force on matters relating to the Year of the Engineering Team.

Visit the section of the Engineers Australia website dedicated to the Year of the Engineering Team to see the latest updates, copies of the Engineers Australia magazine articles, and activities happening in divisions.

ScientificCommons

The ScientificCommons.org project makes it possible to access the largely distributed sources with their vast amount of scientific publications via just one common interface.

ScientificCommons identifies authors from all archives and makes their social and professional relationships transparent and visible to anyone across disciplinary, institutional and technological boundaries.

Currently ScientificCommons has indexed about 13 million scientific publications and successfully extracted 6 million authors' names out of this data.

http://en.scientificcommons.org/

NLA Online Newspaper Archive

Bronwyn Hicks has alerted us to the Australian National Library's digital scanning project. The online search facility will allow users to access 16 newspapers dating from 1803 to 1954.

Currently at testing stage, the NLA has made the site available for the public:
http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home

For more information:
http://www.misaustralia.com/viewer.aspx?EDP://20080730000030085242&section=technology

AaeE 2008

The Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) and CQUniversity are pleased to invite you to Yeppoon for AAEE’s 19th Annual Conference.

The central theme for this year's conference is ' to industry and beyond', focusing on:
Beyond University
Beyond Australasia
Beyond the Present

This includes the focus on social responsibility and developing engineering graduates for a global workplace.

What is engineering? What do the various stakeholders want from an engineering graduate? How is the engineering workplace changing? What pressures will engineering graduates face at work now and in the future? What are the internal and external pressures experienced in engineering education?

This conference invites participants to reflect on and develop responses to these questions.

Conference Aim
The purpose of this conference is to:

Share ideas and experiences;
Identify and promote best practice
Develop networking opportunities
Foster active participation in presentations and workshops
Foster student involvement in their education

http://www.events.rockhamptoninfo.com.au/

Looking for Standards?

Standards are official publications used in all areas of industry and trade. They consist of specifications or recommendations on issues such as quality, safety, performance and construction requirements, codes of practice, methods of testing, symbols and terminology.

http://www.saiglobal.com/

Search by organisation:

American Society for Testing of Materials (ASTM)
http://www.astm.org/

American National Standards Insitute (ANSI)
http://www.ansi.org/

British Standards Institution (BSI)
http://www.bsi.org.uk/

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
http://www.iec.ch/

International Standardization Organization (ISO)
http://www.iso.ch/

Additional Internet site for Standards:

Techstreet – one of the most comprehensive standards searching site on the Internet. Provides access to standards from over 350 standards organisations.
http://www.techstreet.com/

American Society for Engineering Education

ELD is the Engineering Libraries Division of ASEE. The division consists of librarians and information professionals concerned with the support of engineering education. We are involved in the provision of library services and the development of innovative approaches to networking information services. Our role within ASEE is to promote the role of the library as an integral part of engineering education. ELD serves as a forum for engineers who believe that information access lies at the heart of engineering education.

http://eld.lib.ucdavis.edu/

Edna (Education Network Australia)

Links to the ACCESS Group (Queensland) website and blog are now available on the Edna website. Edna provides a free service for communication and collaboration between members of the Australian education and training community.
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go

Engineering Librarian Groups

You may want to check out sites of other interest groups:

E-group for Engineering College Librarians
http://krmulla.blogspot.com/2008/03/engg-lib-forum-e-group-for-engineering.html

EngLib for the Scitech Librarian
http://englib.info/

Science and Engineering Academic Librarians
http://www.carl-acrl.org/ig/seals/

Ontario Engineering Librarians’ Interest Group
http://library.queensu.ca/blog/englib/

If you know of any others - post them on the blog!

ALIA Education and Workforce Summit 2008

At the last ACCESS Group meeting, Jenny Hale spoke about the ALIA Education and Workforce Summit she attended at the State Library of Victoria on Friday 28 March 2008.

The link for the Education and Workforce summit is : http://www.alia.org.au/education/summit08/.

This page contains the original submissions plus the interim report.

Citeseer X

is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/

Bentham OPEN

BENTHAM OPEN provide access to peer-reviewed open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, technology, and medicine.

http://www.bentham.org/open/index.htm

• All articles are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication
• All articles are available for you to read, download, copy, distribute, deposit in digital repositories and use (with attribution) in any way you wish. No permission is required for distribution, copying or commercial use of published articles. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/)
• All submitted articles undergo a fast but rigorous peer-review procedure, followed by prompt submission of an article for publication
• Bentham Open offers affordable article processing fees, ranking amongst the lowest as compared to those of other open access journal publishers
• All articles are indexed by Google and Google Scholar which offers additional massive world wide web exposure.

RESCHEDULED: ACCESS Group Meeting - May

The ACCESS Group meeting scheduled for the 17 April has been postponed. The meeting will now be held on Tuesday 6 May, 12pm-2pm.

Bronwyn Hicks will be hosting the meeting at Brisbane City Council.

Bronwyn has suggested that we contribute a few dollars each (probably under $5) and she will organise for sandwiches and juice to be provided. Money will be collected on the day. We can have lunch / discussion at the start and following that look at the collection area.

Street address:
South TowerGreen Square
505 St Paul's Terrace
Fortitude Valley

Those attending the meeting are asked to meet in the Constance Street foyer. We will need to sign in at the Reception and be escorted to the meeting room.

Please RSVP to Loretta Atkinson if you would like to attend by the 2 May. Also please let me know if there is anything you would like to discuss at the meeting.

ACCESS Group Meeting - April

The next ACCESS Group meeting will be held on the 17 April, 12pm-2pm. Bronwyn Hicks has kindly offered to host the meeting at Brisbane City Council.

Bronwyn has suggested that we contribute a few dollars each (probably under $5) and she will organise for sandwiches and juice to be provided. We can have lunch / discussion at the start and following that look at the collection area.

Street address:
South Tower
Green Square
505 St Paul's Terrace
Fortitude Valley

Those attending the meeting are asked to meet in the Constance Street foyer. We will need to sign in at the Reception and be escorted to the meeting room.

Please RSVP to Loretta Atkinson if you would like to attend by the 14 April. Also please let me know if there is anything you would like to discuss at the meeting.

Engineering Education Futures Forum

At the last ACCESS meeting Jocelyne Poirier informed us of the Engineering Education Futures Forum. The Forum will start on the evening of the 25 March and will conclude on the 28 March.

The aim of the Forum is:
- to bring together a group of key national and international engineering education stakeholders to consider the nature of engineering and engineering education in the 2015-2020 window.
- to present a series of wide-ranging 'vision statements' from key participants to help conceive the goals, curricula structure and implementation strategies for future engineering education.
- to design innovative curricular pathways supported by appropriate pedagogies for next-generation engineering programs that help address future graduate attributes as well as bring engineering science and practice into effective partnership.

For more information:
http://www.carrickinstitute.edu.au/carrick/go/home/fellowships/pid/471

Scirus search engine - for scientific information

The free scientific search engine Scirus provides access to websites, journals and other document sources in science, technology and the medical disciplines. Scirus filters non-scientific information. Search results are presented under three tabs ‘Journal sources’ ‘Preferred Web sources’ and ‘Other Web sources’. The ‘Advanced Search’ page provides a list of the ‘Journal sources’ and ‘Preferred Web sources’ indexed by Scirus.

Scirus was developed by Elsevier and is linked from the Compendex and Inspec databases on the Engineering Village platform. A full review of Scirus is available from the online journal Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Winter 2007.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Users may browse by discipline or search by journal title.

http://www.doaj.org/

ACCESS Group Meeting - February

The ACCESS annual meeting is to be held on 21 February at SKM. Details are as follows:

Date: 21 February
Time: 12.30pm
Where: Sinclair Knight Merz, Level 8, 369 Ann Street

SKM will provide drinks but please bring along your lunch.

Please RSVP to me by the 19 February.