Training on Scopus database Mon 2nd & Tues 3rd February

Michaela Kurschildgen from Elsevier will be visiting DIT next week to deliver two training sessions on Scopus. DIT now has a subscription to Scopus until 30^th August 2015.

The training sessions will take place on Monday 2^nd February at 2.30pm, with a repeat session on Tuesday 3^rd February at 9.30am. Each session will last approximately 1 ½ hours.

Both sessions will be delivered in the Training Room in Aungier Street Library. The room accommodates 25 participants.

Please email ast.library@dit.ie before Friday if you’d like to book a place at the training.

Scopus is an excellent tool for researchers.  According to Elsevier:

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Scopus can be accessed on- and off-campus from the library's databases page. 

Westlaw UK - essential maintenance downtime

Saturday, 24 January 2015

Please be advised that Westlaw UK will not be available this Saturday, 24th January 2015 - this is to allow for essential maintenance to be undertaken.

The work is scheduled to begin at 3:30am (GMT) Saturday, 24 January 2015 and the maintenance will take several hours to complete, during which the Westlaw UK service will be unavailable. The full service will be restored as soon as possible.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause to all our users.

Researchers - DIT now has Scopus

Thanks to the Directorate of Research and Enterprise, DIT now has a subscription to Scopus until 30th August 2015. 

 Scopus is an excellent tool for researchers.  According to Elsevier:

 Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Scopus allows you to set up email alerts, so you’re alerted whenever an author publishes a new paper, or is cited by another author, when a new article on a particular topic is published, or  when a new paper cites a paper you’re interested in.

From a bibliometrics point of view, Scopus is an excellent complement to Web of Science, to which DIT also subscribes, since Scopus has better coverage of Social Science titles.

You can learn more about the bibliometric strengths and weaknesses of Scopus in the MyRi (Measuring your Research Impact) online tutorial - see especially sections 1.5 (The Main Bibliometrics Tools), and 2.2 (Main Citation Analysis Tools).

Scopus can be accessed on- and off-campus from the library's databases page.  Please Ask a Librarian if you have any questions about Scopus.

How do I upload my published articles to Arrow?

Following last week's post about the benefits of uploading your published research to Arrow, this week's post explains how to do it.
First, you'll need to register with Arrow. See our video guide to joining Arrow.
Next, watch our video for a step-by-step guide on how to submit an article to Arrow.
Remember, the vast majority of publishers will allow you to submit the Author's Final Version (also know as the Post-Print version, i.e. the post-refereeing version) of your article to Arrow as long as you provide the citation to the published version.
Any item you submit to Arrow will be kept in a holding area until library staff verify that the publisher's policy permits deposit of the article in Arrow.
Please contact Ask a Librarian if you have any questions about posting your research to  Arrow,

Looking for a New Year's Resolution? Try This Simple Step to Preserve your Publications and Help to Increase your Citations

Did you know that in the vast majority of cases, when you contract with a publisher to publish your article in a specific journal, the publisher then holds the copyright to the published article?

This means that you, the author, have no rights over the published article, and can only access it if you or your institution have a subscription to the journal. Furthermore, the publisher is under no obligation to preserve your article in the long term.

What can you do?

First, you should always keep the Author's Final Version of your article. This is the final version, following the review process, that you send to the publisher, i.e. the last version before the publisher's formatting etc. is applied.

Secondly, deposit the Author's Final Version in Arrow@DIT, DIT's Institutional Repository. Most publishers will allow you to "self-archive" the Author's Final Version in Arrow, as long as you provide the citation to the published version. Any item that you submit to Arrow is kept in a holding area until library staff have verified that the publisher's policy permits deposit of the Author's Final Version in Arrow.

Arrow is an archive of DIT's research, so uploading your publications to Arrow ensures their preservation.

There's also some evidence that depositing publications in institutional repositories can help to increase their citations - another reason to make sure that you've deposited your work in Arrow!