Academic Search Ultimate: new database trial available until end of June.

Academic Search Ultimate - Trial until 20th June 2020

Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. 

Academic Search Ultimate is the expanded version of Academic Search Complete ( database - currently available via TU Dublin Library database listing.

To access Academic Search Ultimate please use the A-Z database listing on the TU Dublin Library website and access it via the Academic Search Complete database link. It will be accessible in the menu list of EBSCO databases when searching any of the current EBSCO databases.

Access problems? Contact us at library.kst@tudublin.ie

New TU Dublin Library resource: access to Springer Nature

Springer Nature: Climate Change & Biodiversity Resources

Springer Nature works to support the United Nations' SDGs across their publishing and services and across disciplines. This includes publishing and sharing SDG focused research, bringing researchers and communities together and addressing economic, environmental and social impacts. Access  the curated key content resources, including interviews with experts in the field, the latest research, tools and resources.

 Access Springer key content here

HEA Survey for academics & researchers: Access to and Use of e-Journals and other publications in Ireland

SURVEY FOR ACADEMICS AND RESEARCHERS: Access to and Use of e-Journals and other publications in Ireland 

This survey seeks information about access to and use of e-Journals and other publications by academics, researchers and others in Ireland. It is being undertaken as part of a Strategic review of the Irish Research e-Library (IReL) by the Higher Education Authority in the context of increasing publisher costs and growing support for Open Science/ Open Access. 

IReL was set up in 2004 and expanded in 2006, and provides access (primarily for the university sector at present) to over 30,000 peer-reviewed on-line research publications, including full-text databases, index and abstracting services, e-books and journal articles from leading publishers. The Strategic review seeks to understand usage and to consider opportunities and challenges in accessing and using e-journals, in order to set out best practice in the provision of national research e-library services and propose strategic options for the future. The ambition is that IReL will grow to become a national research e-library, and the Strategic review will be an important step in translating this ambition into a realisable and sustainable strategy. 

This survey will take you about 10 minutes to complete. Opportunity is given at the end of the survey to provide any additional comments that you consider to be relevant. Your responses will be anonymised, and the data will be kept in a secure place. Your name will be known only if you volunteer to be interviewed. 

Access the survey at this link: Survey of Access to and Usage of e-Journals in Ireland

Please complete this survey by 10^th August. Early submissions are welcome.

Focus On: training help for Web of Science, Science Direct and Endnote resources

Need online help or training with Web of Science, Science Direct or Endnote while off campus?


Science Direct, Web of Science and Endnote have their own YouTube training channels which can provide you with help on different aspects of and functionality:

• Endnote (Clarivate) https://www.youtube.com/user/EndNoteTraining 
• Web of Science (Clarivate) https://www.youtube.com/user/WoSTraining
• Science Direct (Elsevier) https://www.youtube.com/user/sciencedirectvideo

Oa a general level see the DIT Library Services Youtube channel for  'how to' short  getting started vids https://www.youtube.com/user/ditlibrary.

There's also a new science database training playlist at  https://www.youtube.com/user/ditlibrary/playlists

Alternatively if you would prefer to have a short tutorial with a member of library staff just email us at kst.library@dit.ie

Note: remember to access the Web of Science and Science Direct databases via DIT Library to enable full text access.

Access to Library resources over the student break.

Need to access DIT Library e-resources for assignments or revision while you are away from Dublin over the student Easter break?

Try these tips:

• Access e-books, e-journals, e-dissertations and databases remotely by logging in with your DIT password or Library PIN; see Off Campus Access

• Use the Science and Engineering Subject Guides for more in-depth help and specific assignments resource links.

• The Library will close at 5pm on Thursday 29 March and will be closed from Friday 30 March to Monday 02 April inclusive for the Easter weekend. However usual semester opening hours apply at all other times over the student break.

• Link to the Exam Papers here. If you don't have the Student Intranet password for the exam papers contactus.

If you have any issues or queries email us at kst.library@dit.ie or v ia @KevinStLibrary

Web of Science and Endnote seminar Tuesday 20th March at 9.30am. All welcome

Using Web of Science for an undergrad assignment or postgrad literature review? Need help with Endnote?  DIT Library Services invites you to a Training Seminar from Clarivate Analytics on:

Web of Science: consists of several databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research. Web of Science Core Collection is our premier resource on the platform and includes over 20,000 peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals published worldwide (including Open Access journals)

Journal Citation Reports (JCR): offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. Over 11,000 titles from the Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index  in JCR.

Endnote Online:
EndNote is reference management software with features to

• Keep all your references and reference-related materials in a searchable personal library.
  
• Synchronize your references between up to three of your personal computers, an online library, and your iPad, through EndNote sync. (You must be the owner and user of all three computers.)
  
• Share your references with collaborators through EndNote sync.
  
• Use your references in word-processing documents to create formatted citations and bibliographies or independent reference lists.
  

Schedule:

1. 9.30am - 11.00am:  Web of Science & Journal Citation Reports
2. 11.00am - 11.30am: Break
3. 11.30am - 1.00pm: Endnote Online

Location: DIT Library Aungier Street Training Room

Book your place here or attend one or both sessions as time permits.

More metrics : help with getting started from Scopus and CiteScore

Access Scopus and CiteScore metrics via the DIT Library database list.

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Call for items LEVEL3, DIT online journal, June 2017

Level3, the DIT online journal, invites articles, reports, think pieces and book reviews for Issue Number 15, June 2017

• Potential authors are welcome to discuss a proposal with the editors:

anne.murphy@dit.ie

phil.hanlon@dit.ie

brendan.devlin@dit.ie

garrett.keenaghan@dit.ie

• Author guidelines are available on the journal website: www.level3.dit.ie
• Authors of full articles may opt for peer review or non-peer review
• Copy-editing and formatting support is provided to all authors
• Copyright remains with authors
• Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their own content
• Ethics of academic publishing apply: editors accept items at their discretion.

Items for Level3 are accepted at any time

The DEADLINE for final items for the June 2017 issue is 22 May.

Abbreviating Science Journal Titles

Some citation / reference styles require you to abbreviate the journal titles when you're adding them to a bibliography. A couple of useful tools to help find the correct science journal abbreviations are:

CASSI (Chemistry)
Web of Science Journals 

If on the other hand you want to find the full journal title from an abbreviation use All that JaS. This resource (Journal Abbreviation Sources) lists the full titles of abbreviated journal titles and conference proceedings

Education in Chemistry: new app and free issues for 2015

Education in Chemistry has launched its first app for mobile devices. The magazine is now available on iOS and Android and also in a web reader version. To celebrate the launch, all issues of the magazine will be free to download throughout 2015.

In addition to bimonthly issues of Education in Chemistry magazine, app readers will also have access to themed supplements on emerging topics in chemical education.

Education in Chemistry supports chemistry teachers across secondary, further and higher education, by providing  feature articles, news and opinion, demonstrations and reviews of the latest resources.

Subject Guides for Language Students

Need help finding a language e-magazine or newspaper database for an assignment? Try the  Languages Subject Guide which aims to help undergraduate students get started with the Library eResources. This includes a help-sheet and e-tutorial for the Nexis UK database as well as a full listing of other resources and guides from first year to final year. 

If you need assistance with finding e-newspapers or magazines for your subject please contact us at kst.library@dit.ie or @KevinStLibrary

Library FAQs: Top ten questions and answers

Here are the ten most common inquiries at the Kevin St library information desk for September 2014 (not in any particular order) with the quick-link answers. Hope they help.

1. How long is a textbook loan?
2. How do I extend / renew my book loan?
3. How do I use the Printing & Copying service?
4. How do I get Off Campus Access to eResources?
5. Where are the Exam Papers?
6. What are your Opening Hours?
7. Do you have any eBooks?
8. How do I find these Journals?
9. Where can I find info on my topic for a project? 
10. How do I find dissertation lists?

 Any other questions?  Just ask us: kst.library@dit.ie or @KevinStLibrary

New RSC chemical sciences repository

The new Chemical Sciences Repository is a non-commercial subject specific open access repository for chemistry papers, hosting Green and Gold Open Access(OA) papers. Launched by the RSC last month the Chemical Sciences Repository will host articles from across the chemical sciences and interdisciplinary work at the interface of chemistry.

The deposition of articles is the first phase of the Chemical Sciences Repository. It will be further developed to include data and theses, as well as other types of publications. For FAQs and more information on scope and subject coverage use this link.

Acromine: a new way to refine your search terms

Many popular search terms are acronyms or abbreviations in common use. Even in the biological and medical sciences, many acronyms have a variety of meanings.

 Europe PMC Labs' Acromine lets you disambiguate acronyms by suggesting alternative expansions for them.The disambiguation tool enriches your literature exploration by suggesting alternative meanings of acronyms in your search.  

Using the Acromine-powered search as you would any search engine.  If your search term is an acronym, you will see suggested expansions listed to the right.  If one of those corresponds to your intended meaning, clicking will make it (and similarly-spelled variants) your new search term.    

Abbreviating Journal titles

Some biomedical science students were asking this week about how to abbreviate journal titles correctly in a bibliography or list of references.

A couple of handy resources that 'translate' the full journal title into the most commonly used acronym / abbreviated version are:

1. Web of Science Listing 
2. BIOS
3. Science (acronyms only)

These links are on the DIT Library Subject Guides pages for both Nutrition and Biomedical science students. Any queries please contact us.

TicTOCs

Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature just became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/

ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.

Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs.

ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular feedreaders such as Google Reader and Bloglines. You select TOCs by ticking those of interest - thousands of TOCs, within a tick or two (hence the name ticTOCs).

Endocrinology open access journal

BMC Endocrine Disorders is an electronic journal published by Biomed Central (BMC). Research articles, case reports and reviews covering the latest research on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of endocrine disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology are available from 2001 onwards which are freely accessible online permanently. Articles are archived in internationally recognised free access repositories such as PubMed Central. Information is provided on the instructions for authors, and the peer-review process. http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcendocrdisord/