Get IT.GET IT: current awareness services Current awareness services help researchers keep track of developments in their fields of interest, providing news alerts that in some cases can be tailored to match particular interests. This `selective dissemination of information' is generally provided by library-based services. Formats vary from database reports viewed online to emailed summaries of recent journal articles and the option to order the full text of items cited. YSA readers based at universities have access through their academic libraries to sophisticated current awareness services. Databases such as Current Contents, WebSPIRS and InfoTrac allow your particular search strategy to be saved and re-run at a later date against the database's new content -- or another database's content. In some cases, alerts about that new content are emailed to you. Table of contents services -- or TOCs -- are a type of current awareness service offered by large journal publishers. Examples include IDEAL from the Academic Press, and `ingenta' -- a TOC and current awareness service giving access to a large database of journal article information. Importantly, the ingenta service now incorporates the CARL Uncover database and provides the alert service known as REVEAL (formerly provided by Uncover). Current Contents, as its name implies, started out simply as a TOC service in print form many years ago but is now a sophisticated research tool. The ACYS ACYS - Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies newsletter, Youth Field Xpress, also acts as a TOC service for Youth Studies Australia. While the YSA journal carries book reviews and notes on resources, the aim of YFX is to provide current news updates compiled by ACYS from a variety of sources. To subscribe, send a message to yfx-on@mail-list.com Another newsletter of interest to the youth field is the Queensland-based `Youth Sector Update' which serves the youth suicide prevention field. The education community is served by the EdNA News and Views alert service and the drug and alcohol field by the Australian Drug Foundation newsletter Drug Leads. HACjobs is a new weekly bulletin advertising job vacancies, consultancies and other opportunities for paid work in the health, social services and community field in Australia and New Zealand.Ausyouth's Youth Development Digest is an annotated bibliography series that complements their newsletter. The third such digest is due to appear in the first quarter of 2002. Web site-based alerts such as the Australian Institute of Family Studies' `aifs-alert' and the Government media release service are also useful for keeping track of changed online information. These and other services are described in detail along with instructions for signing up on the ACYS web site at www.acys.utas.edu.au/ncys/res/current.htm Online journals To keep track of content in online journals which are not available in hard copy, see the new ACYS web page at: http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/ncys/research/online-journals.htm Such journals include CYC (artificial intelligence) Cyc - A large knowledge-based system. Cyc is a very large, multi-contextual knowledge base and inference engine, the development of which started at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas during the early 1980s.-Online (child and youth care), the Indigenous Health Bulletin and the Auseinet online journal Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health. YSA's Abstracts column covers articles which are available in scholarly print journals. Directory of youth researchers This is a new online service providing a listing of Australian youth researchers' contact details, publications and research interests. Maintained by the Youth Research Centre at the University of Melbourne in cooperation with the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies at the University of Tasmania (body, education) University of Tasmania - ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/., the directory is available from: http://ythresearcher-db.utas.edu.au Local government resources A handy list of all Australian local government organisations and associations appears on the National Library of Australia's web site at www.nla.gov.au/oz/gov/local.html The Local Government Association of Queensland Inc. (www.lgaq.asn.au) is developing resources on issues around young people and public space. See the `Out Now' column for a review of their guide to skate facilities. Other LGAQ LGAQ - Local Government Association of Queensland resources include a manual and good practice guide on bikes and bands; an information package for councils on creating safe spaces; legislation covering police powers police powers n. from the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which reserves to the states the rights and powers "not delegated to the United States" which include protection of the welfare, safety, health and even morals of the public. Police powers include licensing, inspection, zoning, safety regulations (which cover a lot of territory), quarantines, and working conditions as well as law enforcement. and responsibilities; and cooperation with the YSPACE, the International Youth and Public Space Network (www.yspace.net). Youth Challenge Online www.humanrights.gov.au/youthchallenge/ The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has conducted Youth Challenge workshops across Australia as part of their education program for secondary students since 1998. The Youth Challenge online resources allow students to examine the links between human rights and responsibilities and learn about the relevance of human rights to everyday situations. There's also a set of videos for teachers, one about disability discrimination, human rights and responsibilities and the law in everyday life, the other about workplace sex and race discrimination and sexual harassment. Electronic information for the youth field Youth.Monitor@educ.utas.edu.au View this page online at: http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/ncys/ysa/nn/ |
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