SCIFINDER SCHOLAR

Researchers in the field of chemistry may be interested in the latest upgrade to SciFinder Scholar,


The above link provides installation instructions for Windows and Mac. SciFinder Scholar can only be downloaded, installed and used on campus (on UCD registered computers). It cannot be used on the public access machines in UCD Library. There is, however, a dedicated SciFinder Scholar standalone PC on Level 4 of the James Joyce Library which can be used while in the Library.

We hope you all enjoy the Christmas break!

National Digital Learning Repository - Workshop

The National Digital Learning Repository (NDLR) is a HEA funded pilot project between all Irish Universities, ITs etc. It is an online resource tool designed to support collaboration and sharing of teaching and learning resources within the Irish 3rd level education sector.

Richview Library is piloting the use of the NDLR to make images available in digital format. To this end, as a first step, 250 of its slides, copyrighted to the School of Architecture, have been added.

It is hoped to roll out this pilot to academic staff who will be invited to add their own images. The resulting and growing image databank will be available to all to add to, to share and use in teaching, learning and research activities.

The NDLR is managed in UCD by the Centre for Teaching & Learning (CTL). The CTL is running a workshop on the morning of Wed. 5th December (10am – 1pm), outlining its work, with a specific focus on images.

Anyone with an interest in this area is invited to attend.

Please contact Julia Barrett before Friday this week (30th) if you would like to attend. julia.barrett@ucd.ie Tel: + 353 (01) 716 2741

Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies

Library at Lunchtime: EndNote Sessions

EndNote is an application that helps researchers store and manage references, and makes creating bibliographies easy. UCD Library offers workshop training and demonstration sessions for groups, in addition to Endnote Lunchtime Sessions

REQUIREMENTS:

Introduction to EndNote: Good PC skills; some familiarity with using online databases

Advanced EndNote: These sessions are intended for regular users of EndNote, who can already enter and download references and use the Cite While You Write feature.

For advance bookings please Telephone 7167368, or Email: endnote@ucd.ie
Any places not booked will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis on the day.

A BRIEF WORKSHOP

Many of you will know that the Library has recently purchased the online version of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP).

The HCPP is a comprehensive collection of parliamentary papers in full text on British policy, covering Britain and its colonies from 1801 to the present. It is a primary source for historical records, and for multidisciplinary research.

The company selling this service will give a brief workshop on how to use, search for and locate information on this resource, on:

Monday 5th November, 2.00 - 3.30pm

In the Information Skills Room, Health Sciences Library

If you would like to attend this workshop, which will also be attended by some library staff, please let Ros Pan know:

rosalind.pan@ucd.ie

Environmental maps at your fingertips

ENVision, “Environmental maps at your fingertips” is a service from the Environmental Protection Agency.

ENVision gives access to a variety of environmental maps for the Republic of Ireland, including Corine land cover mapping, soils, river catchments, mapping associated with the Water Framework Directive (e.g. groundwater risk assessment) etc.

All environmental data is overlain onto aerial and topographical mapping; administrative boundaries (e.g. townlands) can be included.

Links to this service are also available from the Library’s maps’ page

UCD Library is pleased to announce the purchase of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, covering the 19th and 20th Centuries. This is a primary source for multi-disciplinary research and covers policy not only related to Britain, but also to its colonies and worldwide. The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are available in full text and have a detailed subject index.

This resource is available from the A-Z listing of library databases: Off-campus access will be available shortly.

IRCSET INVITATION

The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) invites submissions from the research community, and other interested parties, regarding a proposed IRCSET policy on:

Open Access to Publications.

IRCSET intends to put in place a policy whereby researchers will be required to make their publications available on an open access basis - where these result in whole or in part from IRCSET funded research - as soon as possible after publication. The requirement will be that these should be made openly accessible within a period of 6 months at the latest following initial publication. Find out more.

Make bibliographies easier with introductory sessions in Endnote

Endnote is an application that helps researchers store and manage references. UCD Library is offering introduction to Endnote sessions as follows: Find out More

Economic Intelligence Unit Country Profile

The Economist Intelligence Unit Country Profiles provide background and the historical context of current economic and political events in a country. The following countries are covered by Development Studies Library subscription: Argentina, Bangladesh, DRC Congo, China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan,Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

UCD Library is currently trialling three products:

ARTStor
Image MD
Primal Pictures


More information on these three products is available from the Library Databases on Trial Page.

Request your JJL thesis online!

Readers can now submit their James Joyce Library (JJL) theses requests online. Simply access the Theses Collection page and select the "Request a JJL thesis" option which appears at the top of the page. Links to this form are also available from a number of other relevant pages. Use the blog comment field below to suggest other pages we should link from. The launch of this form means that it is no longer necessary to call into the JJL to submit a theses request. Theses are normally available for consultation the following day (mon-thurs) at the Level 1 Information Desk. A good tip to remember, before completing the online form to consult the Library's catalogue to obtain full thesis details.
Cathal

Browse our Ebook titles

The shift to electronic texts is gathering pace. A large number of electronic books are available through UCD Libraries electronic resources webpage. Our titles cover a wide range of subjects, some are free collections, others are subscription packages for specific subject areas.

Take a look at our eBooks summary on the website at http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources
/e-lib/ebooks.htm

Pick up a leaflet in the Library or check our list at http://www.ucd.ie/library/about/printable_guides/index.html#find

Ask Library staff at any information point for more information

The remaining Advanced Endnote training sessions are now fully booked.
However, some places are available on the Introduction to Endnote sessions on the following dates (1pm - 2pm, in the Information Skills Room in the James Joyce Library):

19th July
25th July
26th July

All participants will need a valid staff/student card; if you do not have one please check with the Admissions Desk staff in the James Joyce Library.

If you are interested in attending any of these sessions, please email:

endnote@ucd.ie

Or telephone: 716 7149

The Library will be presenting further Endnote workshops in the Autumn.

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.

Cathal

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

64% of visitors to our Second Life branch say 'what an excellent idea'

From March to May this year we ran the first survey in our branch in Second Life (SL). While a very basic survey it indicates positive trends in relation to our SL involvement with most visitors having a very positive view of the project and intending to return to our SL branch. A major challenge is making people aware of our presence as most found us by serendipity or ‘other’! Not a new problem for Library services but one particularly challenging in SL. You can find out more about this brief survey by visiting our Second Life branch and collecting the survey notecard. A new survey is now running in the branch, please complete it if you can! Thanks to all of our respondents!

Cathal (SL: Gortadoo Ewing)

Managing Environmental Research Data

The UCD Urban Institute Ireland is running a seminar entitled Managing Environmental Research Data Seminar featuring Dr Shane Colgan (ERC Co-ordinator EPA) and Dr. Peter Mooney (ERC Research Fellow NUIM) on Monday 11th June 2007 14:00-16:00. For further details contact the Institute at uii.admin@ucd.ie

Summer Endnote Sessions

A number of lunchtime EndNote Introductory and Advanced sessions are planned during June and July this year.

Full details on dates, venue, time, bookings, contact etc are available at: http://www.ucd.ie/library/students/information_skills/endnote/training.html

UCD Library - Instant Messaging

May 2007 is already (with a few days to go) our busiest month for Instant Messaging (IM) at the level 1 desk in the James Joyce Library since we started IM in 2006. We have had 34 IMs so far this month alone (just beating November 2006 and March 2007). We have already had more IMs in the first few months of 2007 than we did in all of 2006. Thanks to all in Reader Services for their involvement in our IM pilot. Please remember that if you want to contact us using IM from a PC that does not have the MSN client installed and/or does not permit downloads you can use MSN's webmessenger service. For information about IM in UCD please click here.

Cathal

Major Educators conference in Second Life

On May 25th the first ever International Best Practices in Education Conference will take place in Second Life. Already 800 educators and researchers from all over the world have registered. Registration is free and all participants will received a free in-world goody bag. For more information and to register please see: http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/

UCD Library has been in Second Life since March 2007. You can visit us in Cybrary City.

Cathal

Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland

“The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland holds a unique place in the study of the Irish economy and Irish society. Since its foundation in the autumn of 1847 the Society has analysed the major changes that have taken place in population, employment, legal and administrative systems and social services… No other single source provides such a comprehensive picture of social change over such a long period". - from "The Spirit of Earnest Inquiry" by Mary E. Daly,
1997

The proceedings of the Society are recorded in its annual journal which is now freely available online from the TCD Tara Archive:

www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/1080
http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/1080

Summer 2007 JJL opening hours announced!

The James Joyce Library's summer opening hours include a 13% increase in opening hours, a 37% increase in service hours and for the first time Saturday opening in July and August. For more details please see the library's website. These service developments are based on feedback received from academic staff and postgraduates. Thanks for all your comments and suggestions.

Cathal

Library Newsletter Questionnaire

Our newsletter, http://www.ucd.ie/library/news/pdf/libno14.pdf aims to inform you about the range of services and resources the Library offers, in addition to highlighting issues and developments in research and publishing. We would be grateful if you could take a couple of minutes to fill in this online survey about the newsletter, Your opinion will help us improve and enhance the Newsletter.

The survey, which will only take a couple of minutes, is here

Our apologies if you have already filled in our survey.

Ashwin Babu Kailasa is UCD Library’s new Endnote coordinator. He will be organising Endnote sessions during the Summer (and beyond). In the meantime, if you have any specific Endnote queries, please contact Ashwin at endnote@ucd.ie OR 01-716 7149.

World Bank Publications Online:

UCD Library now subscribes to World Bank Publications Online. This is available at:

http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html#worldbank_online

Keep those books all summer! And don't miss you chance for free copier credit and coffee!

Staff and postgraduates can now renew long loan books until the end of September (29.9.07)! You can renew online through UCD connect, through the My Account feature of the Library catalogue, on the phone (716.7639) or at library service desks. Please note that the usual terms and conditons about recalls etc apply. For more information please contact any library desk.

A brief reminder that UCD Library's Advanced Information Skills Group (AISG) is organising a focus group to gather feedback from PhD students who took part in our information skills sessions during the2006/2007 academic year. These sessions were provided as part of the Graduate Schools' Core Research Modules.The focus group will be held in room 130 in the James Joyce Library on Thursday 10th May from 14.30 - 15.30. Your feedback will help us to evaluate the effectiveness of our sessions and to plan for next year. All participants will receive €10 in photocopier credit as a token of our appreciation. Tea/Coffee will be provided. To register for this focus group please e-mail: Cathal.mccauley@ucd.ie Or mailto:OrJulia.barrett@ucd.ie before 13.00 on May 10th.

Thanks,

Cathal

Library newsletter

The latest issue of Library@UCD, the UCD Library Newsletter, is now available. This features information on the successful pedagogical collaboration between the School of Economics and the Library; handy tips on searching Academic Source Premier database – an excellent source of over 4,500 full text scholarly journals in a wide range of subjects; details on some of the beautiful maps available in Special Collections, etc.

Library@UCD is available at:

http://www.ucd.ie/library/news/index.html#newsletter_april

Find it@UCD

Ever been frustrated when trying to access the full-text of an article after finding a citation in a bibliographic database? Over the past month or so, the UCD Library has implemented a hyperlinking solution to bridge the gap between citations found in certain research databases and the full-text of the source articles.

This solution, called ArticleLinker, can now be found as a feature in many of the Library's e-resources. Just look for the blue "Find it@UCD" logo next to the citation records in your search results. Click on this logo, and if the Library subscribes to the full-text of the source article, you will be taken directly to the article. This works off-campus as well, as long as all databases involved are accessible off-campus.

Some of the databases now featuring this technology include:- the EBSCO databases (Academic Search Premier, Business Source premier, CINAHL)- the CSA databases (British Humanities Index, Psycinfo, GeoRef, ERIC...)- Web of Knowledge (Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews...)- OVID databases (including Biological Abstracts, Food Science & Technology Abstracts, INSPEC, Geobase...).

Further information is available at: http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/article_linker/index.html

We need your feedback- and will give you copier credit and coffee for it!!!

UCD Library's Advanced Information Skills Group (AISG) is
organising a focus group to gather feedback from PhD students
who took part in our information skills sessions during the
2006/2007 academic year. These sessions were provided as part of the
Graduate Schools' Core Research Modules.

The focus group will be held in room 130 in the James Joyce
Library on Thursday 10th May from 14.30 - 15.30
Your feedback will help us to evaluate the effectiveness of our
sessions and to plan for next year.


All participants will receive €10 in photocopier credit as a
token of our appreciation. Tea/Coffee will be provided.

To register for this focus group please e-mail:

Cathal.mccauley@ucd.ie

Or

Julia.barrett@ucd.ie


before 15.00 on Wednesday 2nd May.

Regards,

Cathal

Level 2 Group Study Rooms

Group Study Rooms on Level 2 of the James Joyce Library (Room 233 & Rooms A/B) will be open for general study purposes in the pre-examination period from:

Monday 30th April to Monday 14th May 2007

Students will not be able to make any bookings for the three group study rooms during this period.

The UCD Library Roadshow is coming to Blackrock!

Drop along and visit the UCD Library Roadshow on Tuesday the 17th April from 10-2pm in the main Entrance of the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business. Take 10 minutes to learn more about business related library services and have a chance to win one of three book tokens worth €100 and €50!

HIBERNIA:

HIBERNIA: Historic Ireland's Built Environment and Road Network Inventory Access, provides web-access to two earlier inventories: the Dublin Environmental Inventory and the Dublin Docklands Area Master Plan Inventory (both undertaken by the School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering, University College Dublin). The combined inventories include historical, geographical, and architectural information collected from 1993 to 1995 for 1,280 of Dublin’s buildings.

You may access HIBERNIA at:
www.ucd.ie/hibernia/

The HIBERNIA website is still under development by Sean Morrish in the School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering. Please send any feedback you may have on HIBERNIA to him at:
sean.morrish@ucd.ie

UCD Library blogs

A list and description of all current UCD library blogs is now available at:

www.ucd.ie/library/about/blogs/index.html

BioMed Central institutional membership renewed

The IReL deal with BMC has been renewed. This means that UCD researchers can continue to publish in any of the 170 Open Access journals published by BMC and the "author charges" will not fall to the individual to pay.

Please consult our information on the the website for further information - www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html

IReL subscriptions

Latest subscriptions available via IReL (the Irish Research Electronic
Library) include:

Taylor and Francis Journals (Informaworld): Access to the full text of over 1200 journals published by Taylor and Francis in biosciences, business, environmental sciences, humanities, pure and applied science and technology, social science, psychology and law. Timespan: 1997-

Westlaw IE: Irish legal materials database; contains Irish reported and unreported case law, consolidated/annotated legislation, and legal journals. Also offers a current awareness service providing updates on recent developments in Irish law.

Access these resources either via the Library’s list of databases:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/

Or by the relevant Subject Portal:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/subject_portals/

News and information about IReL is available at:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/irel/

It's good to talk: Library Instant Messaging Service!

Did you know that you can ask Library staff questions online 6 days a week for up to 9 hours a day? The UCD Library Reader Services pilot chat service enables windows messenger users to contact the Library online. For more information and details about the service click here. I will be speaking about this pilot at the forthcoming LIR seminar in TCD later this month.

UCD Library at IUISC 2007

We are constantly developing our services to meet the needs of our readers. This has led to us being very innovative in many areas of our service. Confirmation of this is the record numbers of UCD Library-based staff that will make presentations at the Irish Universities Information Colloquium (IUISC) being held in Athlone this week. Josh Clarke and Diarmuid Stokes are talking about our many initiatives in relation to cyber librarianship. John McDonough is presenting on the The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive Project. Claire Moran and Ros Pan are giving a paper about electronic resource management. Peter Hickey is speaking about collaborative learning environments. Best of luck to all of you! Click here for more details about the full programme of events.

Library Roadshow - Newman Building (near services desk) 10.00 - 14.00 Tuesday 6th March

Want to get up to speed with UCD Library online? The Library is running a service roadshow in the Newman building this Tuesday (6th March) between 10.00 and 14.00. Drop by and Library staff will show you how to best manage your library account and tell you all about the useful electronic resources available via UCD Connect. Enter the prize draw on the day to win a €100 One4all voucher and a runner up €50 voucher. For more information see www.ucd.ie/library or call 716-7627. Hope to see you there!

EndNote training

The application EndNote helps researchers manage and store references, and makes creating bibliographies easy.

During March and April UCD Library is offering introductory and advanced EndNote training at lunchtime. Full details are available from the EndNote pages on the Library's website

To make a booking contact Katherine McSharry at 7167149, or katherine.mcsharry@ucd.ie

Arrangements for St. Patrick's Day 2007

The James Joyce Library will be closed on Saturday 17th March. On Sunday 18th normal hours will apply (09.00 – 21.00 reading room only). On Monday 19th we will be open 09:00-17:00 (reading room only). Normal hours and service will resume on Tuesday 20th March.

Report on first Irish Conference about the potential of Second Life for educators

I attended the above event on Tueday (27th) evening. It was a perfect mix of usefulness and chaos that neatly sums up second life. Over 40 delegates from Ireland and around the world turned up. The image to the right shows them gathering. There was standing room only long before proceedings got underway as demand far exceeded the organisers expectations. The conference opened with a video of how second life (SL) is used in Harvard. While some delegates had technical problems at this point (this related primarily to them not having QuickTime on their PCs) most of us were able to enjoy this interesting example of how one of the Ivy League's finest is at the forefront of adopting SL. Streamed speech was used at this stage to address delegates. Following the video delegates were divided into two groups (students and educators) to discuss the potential benefits and pitfalls of using SL. This part of the conference was conducted using the text-based messaging which forms the bulk of SL communication. A bizarre upshot of this was that the streamed music usually playing in Dublin in SL was audible again. This incongruous sound track included the Corrs, Enya and Irish 'rebel' songs. The debate that took place to this was as diverse as it was interesting ranging from theoretical issues to practical concerns. For example one delegate explained that exam boards in his institution would not accept SL work for assessment purposes. Another informed the group that he was successful in having SL work accepted as part of a portfolio of work students prepared. A major focus of the debate was how SL related to existing Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). Moodle and Blackboard users reported that they have successfully integrated SL into both. After an enjoyable debate lasting about an hour most delegates retired to the Blarney Stone for a virtual drink. This is where things started to get a little peculiar. SL slowed dramatically as the number of 'drinkers' soared and eventually I left. Outside I bumped into two academics from a UK university that had attended the event. We were having a useful discussion (including trading presentations we have given about SL) until we were rudely by a large naked man giving away free cats. After bidding farewell to my two colleagues I simply flew off to Cybrary city. It’s all part of having a second life!

New Library Resources

Below is a listing of new library resources - you can access these via the A-Z list of library databases and also the relevant subject portals, both from the Library’s Website (http://www2.blogger.com/www.ucd.ie/library):

Derwent Innovations Index (via ISI Web of Knowledge) Derwent Innovations Index combines patent records from Derwent World Patents Index with patent citation information from Patents Citation Index. The merged data set comprises 14.3 million inventions from 41 worldwide patent-issuing authorities.
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html#derwent

Education Index
475 core international English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and monographic series covering all areas of education from preschool to postgraduate, since 1983. Contains full text.
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html#eduindex

General Science Index
190 popular and professional science journals published in the United States and Great Britain, and the Science section of The New York Times, since 1984. Contains full text.
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html#genscindex

Humanities Index
500 English-language periodicals in the areas of archaeology, classical studies, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature, and religion, since 1984. Contains full text.
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html#humanindex

Social Sciences Index
More than 500 English-language periodicals in the areas of anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies, since 1983.
Contains full text.
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html#socscindex

Wilson Business Index
527 key international English-language business periodicals including Business Week, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times including product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, reports of associations, societies and conferences, since 1982. Contains full text.
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html#wilsonbizindex


Applied Science & Technology Index
400 trade magazines, industry publications, and scholarly publications on the practical aspects of all areas of engineering, technology, and science, since 1983. Contains full text.
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html#asti


Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
Comprehensive indexing of over 291 key international English-language periodicals in the biological and agricultural sciences, since 1983.
Contains full text.
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html#bioagindex

Library Literature & Information Science
297 key journals (in English and other languages) in Library and Information Science on current library trends and developments, since 1984. With Full Text.
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/library_databases/index.html#llisindex

First Irish Conference about the potential of Second Life for educators

The 3-D world virtual world Second Life has over four million registered accounts and many univeristies around the world (including Harvard, Stanford, Edinburgh, and MIT) are already active there.

This evening the first Irish conference for educators about Second Life will be held at 19.00 (7pm). The conference discussion will focus on the potential for education in Second Life. It will include an introduction to second life with video demonstrations. It will be co-hosted in audio by a DCU academic and Trinity College key speaker.


In order to attend, simply go to www.secondlife.com and download second life (free). It then only takes a minute to create your account/avatar. (All free) It is advisable to login a while before the event next Tues (before 7pm) to familiarise yourself with the world and 'teleport' to Trinity College Dublin. It will take place in the main courtyard. Follow the signs or go to this address http://slurl.com/secondlife/dublin/147/104/25/

Help us to develop our services and you may win a €100 One4all voucher

The Reader Services Department of UCD Library is currently reviewing our existing services and planning for our future development. To help us to do this we would like to know your views. Please complete this short survey which is open from 19th February until 28th February 2007 and you could win a €100 One4all gift voucher!

Rare Books Group AGM

The AGM of the Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland will take place on Wednesday 28 February at 7.30pm, in Marsh's Library. It will be followed by a lecture from Dr Anthony Malcomson on The Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland 1740 -1840.

More information about the Rare Books Group is available on the LAI's website.

Open Access (OA) and scholarly communication & publishing

The Library has recently added some basic information about the Open Access movement in scholarly publishing to its website. This can be viewed at:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/about/open_access/

A listing of some of the major repositories and search tools for searching collections of both Open Access journals and repositories is provided at:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/e-lib/oasearch.html

A summary of publishers offering an Open Access publication route is provided at:
http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/e-lib/oapublish.html

We would welcome further suggestions for both search tools and OA publishing options which could be added to these listings.

The Minister of State for Overseas Aid, Conor Lenihan, is visiting Development Studies Library on the 28 Feb between 2.15 and 3.15. There will be an opportunity for researchers to meet him but as space is limited please email Sally.Corcoran@ucd.ie or drop in to Development Studies Library and put your name on the list. The meeting room will be Room 130 in the Library from 2.30 to 3.15.

Health Sciences Library Now Open!

The Health Sciences Library is now open for business.

1. Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 8.30am to 9.45pm with the Loans desk operating 9am to 9.30pm, and Saturday 9.30am-5pm, Loans desk closing 4.45pm.

2. Finding your way around:
The Library consists of 3 floors.
The Ground Floor houses the current journals as well as the Loans Desk and self issue machine, for your borrowing and library account queries, renewals, fines and returns.
The First Floor houses the:

Books

Journals

Official publications

Annual Reports

Lending Journals

Pamphlets

Theses

The new Health Sciences Library Information Desk and liaison librarians for your schools are also located on the First Floor and here you can find help with all your information, exam preparation and course work queries.
The Second Floor is a quiet study area. To facilitate you with your academic work, the Health Sciences library is also a wireless library.
Library staff will be on hand to help you find your way around and answer any questions you may have about using the library.
The Health Sciences Library team are looking forward to welcoming you to the new Library on Monday!

Library Services disruption alert

We will be having a full network outage on Wednesday 17th January from 5.30 pm till 8.30am on the day following. This will enable the wireless capacity across the James Joyce Library to be increased to address demand.There will be NO Network or Wireless access in the Library during that time The only service available at issue desks in our libraries will be basic loaning of stock, no other queries can be answered. The Library catalogue will NOT be available from any location on or off campus during this time. The Library website and other online resources will be accessible on campus apart from in JJL and off-campus

HSSRC

The HSSRC (Humanities and Social Science Research Centre) will be closed on Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th of January to facilitate a PC upgrade. There are PCs available on levels 3 and 4 of the Library.

Attention all PhD Students: join our mailing list

UCD Library has developed a range of services to assist Research Students. To keep informed about our activities, please send your email address to library.research@ucd.ie