Christmas / New Year opening hours for Kevin St Library are as follows: 
Additional ebook titles have been added to the MyiLibrary ebook collection.
Essential Molecular Biology: TA Brown
Renewable Energy Resources: J. Twidell
Wind Energy the Facts: European Wind Energy Association
Third Generation Photovoltaics: M. Green.
Applied Photovoltaics: S. Wenham
Textbook of sports medicine : M.Kjaer
Instant notes in Exercise and Sports Physiology: K. Birch
Olympic Textbook of Science in Sport: R. Maughan
To access click on the ebooks link on the DIT Library website, then click on MyILibrary or search for a specific title on the Library Catalogue.
l Entities of Biological Science is a free dictionary of molecular entities focused on 'small' chemical compounds. ChEBI release 63 is now available containing nearly 540,000 entries and it also contains advanced search options as well as a structure drawing tool.
PubChem is a free database of chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities. Those of you who use PubMED or Medline will notice it's linked with NIH PubMed/Entrez information. It offers the following:
The following ebook titles are now available. Access via the Library Catalogue (use Title search) or the Library Website (use the MyiLibrary collection).
Note: If you are working from a laptop or outside the network you will need your staff/student number and your Library Pin.
Ten free web resources to keep up-to-date with science scholarly journal contents include:
For more info see http://tinyurl.com/yllxg9k
Kevin Street Library Opening Hours for the October Public Holiday are:
Lenus is the Irish Health Repository which is an Open Access initiative. It has over 4,500 full-text resources encompassing clinical research, policy evaluation, statistics and official publications and is the only Irish resource of its kind.
The content includes 3 collections :
1. HSE (includes HSE publications categorised by broad subjects, theses, archive of former health board publications and minutes)
2. Other Irish health publications (includes DOHC publications and other Irish health organisations)
3. Research Articles (this is a work in progress with the intention of including up to date articles of interest to Irish health professionals).
This is a broad collection and it is not limited to the HSE; it is a national resource and contributions are most welcome.
Histology & Pathology
Immunology
Microbiology & Parasitology
Molecular & Cellular Biology
Neuroscience
Plant Biology
Intute services, etutorials and a full listing of their subject resources booklets are now available at the new look website.
pes of the disease could be on the market in the next five years. The research by US professor Albert Deisseroth should have major implications, not just for cancer treatment, but in vaccinating against influenzas and other infectious diseases. Prof Deisseroth explained that the response to cancer vaccines for the most common malignancies was limited because of defects in the immune system acquired over time. A way has been found to overcome this by giving a missing immune system protein at the time of vaccination. The new vaccine fuses the DNA of the missing protein with the target at which the vaccine is aimed, be it cancer cells or infectious viruses. The vaccine has overcome the defective response in older test subjects, prevented development of tumour formation and growth and stimulated an immune response against influenza. Michelle's McDonagh's full article is here.
nted it. Chemists have been trying to isolate it for years. But now an Irish scientist based at NUI Galway has been proven to have delivered it – it being a molecule containing no less than five nitrogen atoms. “It” also comes with a negative charge and a difficult name, pentazole anion (N5-). Pentazole is a nitrogen unit that many believe could form the basis of new, energy-intensive rocket fuels that could revolutionise space travel, hence the huge interest in this molecule. See Marina Murphy's article in full here
tion, but Google’s now so happy with the new version of its search engine that it has released the development version. Go see more at http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/google-new-version/version/
The new easy use Intute is now up and running. Intute's purpose is to help you find the best websites for study and research. Click on your topic and find search options, links and etutorials developed by a team of subject specialists. Click here to find links to their subject booklets.
actures. From sugar-like particles that serve as bone cement to rods strong enough to carry your weight, intensive efforts are under way to discover new materials that can substitute for damaged bone. Dr Daniel Boyd of Medic in Cork Institute of Technology collaborated with Dr Mark Towler of the Materials and Surface Science Institute in UL to develop a new kind of bone replacement. Full details here.
From Wednesday 17th June summer opening hours will apply in DIT Library Kevin St:
Everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web now, but imagine if you could tie those two forms of communication together and add a load of functionality on top of it. At its most fundamental form, that’s essentially what Google Wave is. Wave was born out of the idea that email and instant messaging, as successful as they still are, were both created a very long time ago. Or as Lars Rasumussen put it, “Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.” Still at developer stage see reviews, vids and content at
