LIBRARY WORKSHOPS FOR RESEARCHERS

Workshop: Source OECD and World Bank Information Resources

Topics to be covered will include:
Source OECD: how the vast output of the OECD is available from your desktop
EBooks – online versions of OECD books and reports
Flagship publications – OECD reputable and reliable sources
OECD data available by publication or through a new interface since December 2007 OECD.stat

World Bank: available on UCD campus
Ebooks – online versions of all their published output
Flagship publications e.g.World Bank Report freely available
Data World Development Indicators Online
Global Economic Monitor

Quick look at data availability via UCD website

Presenter: Sally Corcoran Development Studies Library
Venue: Information Skills Room Health Sciences Library Belfield (Building no. 16 on campus map
www.ucd.ie/maps/)
Date: Thursday 7 February
Time: 2.30 – 4.00pm
Booking: www.ucd.ie/library/researchbooking/
Further Information: Email Sally.Corcoran@ucd.ie

This workshop is one of a series being run by the Library to support researchers. All workshops include hands-on practice. Full details of workshops are available at www.ucd.ie/library/research

LIBRARY WORKSHOPS FOR RESEARCHERS

Workshop: Government Publications and European Documentation in the James Joyce Library, A useful and little known source for multidisciplinary research in the Human Sciences.

Topics to be covered will include:

· The main government publications in print. How to access them.
· A look at other semi-state bodies e.g. Central Statistics Office.
· Major databases, e.g. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers and Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
· The EUROPA site for the European Union.
· Other free sites relating to the European Union.
· Other international organisations.


Presenter: Monique Carroll, UCD Library
Venue: Information Skills Room, Health Sciences Library, Belfield (Building no. 16 on campus map, www.ucd.ie/maps/)
Date: Thursday 31st January
Time: 2.30 – 4.00pm
Booking: www.ucd.ie/library/researchbooking/
Further information: Contact Monique Carroll, UCD Library, (Monique.carroll@ucd.ie, Tel: 01 716 7521

This Workshop is one of a series being run by the Library to support researchers. All Workshops include hands-on practice. Full details of Workshops are available at www.ucd.ie/library/research

LIBRARY WORKSHOPS FOR RESEARCHERS

Workshop: Government Publications and European Documentation in the James Joyce Library A useful and little known source for multidisciplinary research in the Human Sciences.

Topics to be covered will include:

· The main government publications in print. How to access them.
· A look at other semi-state bodies e.g. Central Statistics Office.
· Major databases, e.g. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers and Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
· The EUROPA site for the European Union.
· Other free sites relating to the European Union.
· Other international organisations.

Presenter: Monique Carroll, UCD Library
Venue: Information Skills Room, Health Sciences Library, Belfield (Building no. 16 on campus map, www.ucd.ie/maps/)
Date: Thursday 31st January
Time: 2.30 – 4.00pm
Booking: www.ucd.ie/library/researchbooking/
Further information: Contact Monique Carroll, UCD Library, (Monique.carroll@ucd.ie, Tel: 01 716 7521

This Workshop is one of a series being run by the Library to support researchers. All Workshops include hands-on practice. Full details of Workshops are available at www.ucd.ie/library/research

LIBRARY WORKSHOPS FOR RESEARCHERS

'Finding evidence-based health and medical information'

This workshop will concentrate on sources of evidence-based health and medical information that are used for research. Evidence-Based Medicine can be defined as the results of scientific studies carried out in order to determine the effectiveness of certain interventions and initiatives in health care.

Topics to be covered will include:
· Introduction to evidence based research in health care and medicine
· A look at major evidence based providers such as The Cochrane Library and PubMed
· An overview of other subject specific resources such as the Joanna Briggs Institute and PEDro

Presenter: Susan Hussein, UCD Library
Venue: Information Skills Room, Health Sciences Library, Belfield (Building no. 16 on campus map, www.ucd.ie/maps/)
Date: Thursday 24 January
Time: 2.30 – 4.00pm
Booking: www.ucd.ie/library/researchbooking/
Further information: Contact Susan Hussein, UCD Library, (mailto:Julia.barrett@ucd.ie; 01-716 6574)

This Workshop is one of a series being run by the Library to support researchers. All Workshops include hands-on practice. Full details of Workshops are available at www.ucd.ie/library/research

RSS FEEDS

A handy way of keeping up-to-date in your field of research is to use RSS feeds. RSS (short for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a format that allows for the syndication, or sharing, of Web content. Its use enables you to aggregate and rapidly scan information gathered from blogs, databases, news, current event Web sites and other Web sites that update content frequently.

Josh Clark, one of the Liaison Librarians in the College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, has created an RSS tutorial which shows the basic steps to creating an account with a Web-based RSS feed reader, and how to subscribe to a sample RSS feed.

Links to further information are included at the end of the presentation.

The RSS tutorial is linked from the researchers' page:

LIBRARY WORKSHOPS FOR RESEARCHERS

2007-2008

Hello All,

A Happy New Year to you!

The Library resumes its Library Workshops for Researchers series on Thursday 17th January with “Business Information Resources”.

Workshops will then be run on a weekly basis up to March 6th (Thursdays, 2.30 – 4pm, in the Information Skills Room, Health Sciences Library). Topics will cover:
- Finding evidence-based health and medical information (24th January)
- Government Publications and the E.U. Documentation Collection within UCD Library (31st January)
- World Bank & Source OECD (7th February)
- Bamboozled by Google? (14th February)
- Electronic newspapers (21st February)
- Finding images (28th February)
- UCD as Gateway – to other libraries and collections (6th March)

Full details of each of these Workshops will be circulated in due course.

Booking is available online at:
www.ucd.ie/library/researchbooking/
best regards,
Julia