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