Postgraduate Study Rooms in the James Joyce Library

Due to essential maintenance work in the James Joyce Library on Monday 2nd July, the individual postgradudate study rooms will not be given out until Tuesday 3rd July. Please note that a sign-up sheet will be available from 8.30am and keys will be distributed when the desk opens at 9.30am.

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Source OECD

There will be a demonstration of the Source OECD database on Wednesday, 11th July, from 9.30 - 11.30 a.m. in Theatre N, Newman Building, UCD. This will be given by David Baker from Source OECD.Source OECD provides full text of their books, periodicals, statistics, working papers and reference works. Of particular interest are the interactive statistics database which allows the creation of customised tables.

Source OECD is available to UCD Library as part of the IReL package at:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/

Science Commons and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) have recently announced the the release of new online tools to help authors exercise choice in retaining critical rights in their scholarly articles, including the rights to reuse their scholarly articles and to post them in online repositories.

More information is available at:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/07-0517SC.html