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About Belinda Weaver
Belinda Weaver, the creator of this site, is currently the Co-ordinator of ePrintsUQ, the ePrint Archive of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. She has worked in libraries for more than twenty-five years, first in Sydney (1976-1985) and then in London (1987-1995). She has worked at the University of Queensland Library as a librarian since January, 1996. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Graduate Certificate in Journalism from the University of Queensland. She is a Member of the Australian Institute of Management, where she is working towards a Diploma in Project Management.
Catch the Wave: find good information on the Internet fast, her book about finding high quality information sources online, is available now.
Brisbane buyers can get it from the
She maintains the Web log, journoz:updates for Australian journalists (ISSN 1448-2762). This blog has been running since late 2002 and the full archive of entries is searchable by date or by category. You can sign up to be notified of new entries. She writes Flick Knife, a very occasional web log about movies.
She contributed the chapter 'The computer as an essential tool' to Journalism: investigation and research, edited by Stephen Tanner, published by Pearson Education, 2003.
She has written a Web advice column for the Courier-Mail's e-Mail section since August, 2000.
Writings available online
(2004) Mining Rich Seams of Information.
(2003) 'Open the Pod Bay Doors, Please, HAL': Here Comes the Semantic Web. Online Currents 18(7):1-7.
(2003) Coming Ready or Not: RSS. Online Currents 18(10):3-8.
(2003) Pressing Matters - The Rise of e-Presses. Online Currents 18(6):4-7.
(2002) Customer Relationship Management: Your Biggest Brother? Online Currents 17(3):4-8.
(2002) Eprint Archives - Reaching Critical Mass? Online Currents 17(9):4-8.
(2002) Kinetica: Something for Everyone. Online Currents 17(7):7-11.
(2002) The Computer as an Essential Tool, in Tanner, Stephen, (ed). Journalism: Investigation and Research, Pearson Education.
(2002) The Holy Grail Goes Digital. Online Currents 17(2):13-16.
(2002) Yearbooks RIP. Online Currents 17(5):4-6.
(2001) The Fewer the Facts, the Stronger the Opinion. Ejournalist 1(1).
Presentations available online
(2004) New Stars In The Sky - How Open Access Is Transforming The Information Universe - paper presented to ALIA 2004 - Challenging Ideas, 21-24 September, 2004, Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland
(2003) Keeping up with search engines - workshop presentation to Information Online Conference, 21-23 January, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney. (A reworked version of this piece was published in the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals newsletter at http://www.scip.org/news/v1i33article1.asp.)
(2000) Making the most of the Web - paper presented to ALIA 2000: Capitalising on knowledge - the information profession in the 21st century, 24-26 October 2000, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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