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.
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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.

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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