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So what is RFID?

RFID stands for radio-frequency identification. This technology combines computer power and radio waves, as in the e-tag we are all familiar with. The device in your vehicle contains a microchip with coded numbers. These numbers are read by the radio waves of the overhead scanner when you drive past and your account is updated.

This subject guide offers an introduction to the topic RFID through online links, e-journals and library resources.

Web Links

• RFID Technology Video – 6min You Tube film clip introducing RFID technology.
• RFID Journal
• RFID Association Australia
• RFID Expo – Workshop and expo coming to Australia in 2008.
• RFID Privacy Issues and News – Review of all the negative issues surrounding RFID.
• Search all RFID clips on You Tube

e-Journals & Articles

The LLC has a number of full text Online Resources that include journals, magazines and newspaper articles.

Construct your own searches using the Online Databases

• Infotrac: General One-File – Search full text articles from a large range of journals, both International and Australian.
• EBSCOhost Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre – Search full text Australasian newspapers, newswires, images and reference books.

Browse the related magazines

• Harvard Business Review – also available on shelf 658.005 HAR
• MIT Sloan Management Review – also available on shelf 658.005 MIT
• MHD Supply Chain Solutions 658.78805 MHD
• Supply Chain Review – also available on shelf 658.705 SUP

Sample some of the articles.

• Chopra, S and Sodhi, M 2007 ' In search of RFIDs sweet spot', MIT Sloan Management Review, 3 March 2007, accessed 19 December 2007
  
• Grossman, L 2007 ' Tag, you're it', Time, Vol 170 Issue 18, 29 October 2007, accessed 19 December 2007
  
• Butters, A 2006 ' Radio frequency identification: an introduction for library professionals', Australasian Public Libraries and Information Professionals, 19.4 December 2006, accessed 19 December 2007
  
• Other titles such as Time, The Bulletin, BRW, Management Today, Australian Personal Computer, Computerworld occasionally run articles on new technologies such as RFID. It is best to search for articles in these magazines using the LLC online databases (see above).

Check the Shelves

• Albrecht, K 2005 Spychips: how major corporations and government plan to track your every move with RFID, Nelson Current, Nashville, Tennessee.
  323.4482 ALB
• Kumar, S 2007 Connective technologies in the supply chain, Auerbach, New York.
  621.384 CON

The following more general titles have a page or two describing RFID in very simple, brief terms:

• Van Weele, A 2005 Purchasing & supply chain management: analysis, strategy, planning and practice, 4th edn, Thomson Learning, South Melbourne.
  658.72 VAN
• Emmett, S 2005 Excellence in warehouse management: how to minimise costs and maximise volume, John Wiley & Son, Chichester, West Sussex.
  658.785 EMM

Australian Standards Online

Australian Standards can only be accessed on campus.

View and download all standards results relating to RFID.