DIT Library now in Google Scholar's Library Links

DIT Library now participates in Google Scholar’s Library Links. This links the databases and electronic journals to which we subscribe with Google Scholar. This means that you can now link with a single click to the full text of articles that you’ve found by doing a search in Google Scholar, once those articles are available via DIT Library’s subscriptions.

To locate full text electronic content available through DIT Library, you can use Google Scholar Library Links. To do this you will need to:

-Go to http://scholar.google.com/
-Click on Scholar Preferences
-Type DIT in the Library Links section and click Find Library
-Tick the box next to Dublin Institute of Technology – Find @ DIT
-Click Save Preferences

The Find @ DIT link next to an article citation in Google Scholar will bring you directly to the full text if the article is available via DIT Library's subscriptions.

For more information see Google Scholar’s Library Links page and Understanding a Search Result.

Student Survey

Be in with a chance to win 100 Euro!

Fill in a short survey at https://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/933ag3375e and you could win €100.

Survey responses will be accepted until Friday 16th May.

There is also a direct link to the survey on the DIT Library Website at http://www.dit.ie/DIT/library/index.html

Check out Researcher ID.com from ISI Web of Science

What is ResearcherID.com?
ResearcherID is a service from ISI Web of Science whereby researchers are invited to join the Researcher Registry and receive a unique researcher ID number. Once registered users can:

• Update their profile information.
• Build a publication list using Web of Science search services or uploading a file.
• Select to make profile public or private.
• Use new tools in the interactive Labs environment to understand their personal metrics.
• Use the Citings Articles Network which graphically depicts who is citing their articles using an interactive world map.
• The Collaboration Network displays their collaboration associates also using an interactive world map.
• The Badge is a "roll over" tool which can be placed on any web page to provide a summary of ones’ profile and recent publications.

Whether registered or not, users can search the Researcher Registry to view profiles and find potential collaborators.

For more details and to register with Researcher.id login to Web of Science from the Library A-Z Listing of databases at www.dit.ie/library

Index to Theses – Full text online theses on the way.

Index to Theses has now launched an important enhancement to its web-based service that identifies and links to the full text availability of theses online (ETD - Electronic Theses and Dissertations).

For the majority of entries, where an ETD is not yet available, the new Index will describe alternative routes for obtaining the full text of theses including specific reference to the British Library’s British Theses Service.

Index to Theses has identified some 3000 full text doctoral ETDs to date and this figure is estimated to be growing at around 100 per month. This growth is expected to increase significantly to represent an important percentage of the 1500 theses processed by Index to Theses each month.

Digitisation of theses covered by Index to Theses in the past will also yield full-text links and records will be regularly updated throughout the subscription year, reflecting current ETD availability. With some 517,000 entries - and growing at an annual rate of 18,000 - Index to Theses remains the most comprehensive listing of theses accepted for higher degrees by British and Irish universities.

Access via the library A-Z listing of databases at www.dit.ie/library

The European Information Association

The European Information Association (EIA) is an international body of information specialists whose aim is to develop, co-ordinate and improve access to EU information.
Their website is at http://www.eia.org.uk, the information is easily digested and you can set yourself up to get weekly email reminders of their news roundups.

This week, for example, the news update covers:

- moves to allow use of mobile phones in-flight

- growth of .eu

- calls for an EU-wide missing child alert

- a European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training

- the 'Education and Training 2010' work programme

Multi-cultural Ireland

• AIB customers made almost 6000 payments to Poland in 2003. By 2005 this had risen to around 60,000 payments.



• Contrary to many expectations, 2006 data from the CSO indicates that the majority of non-nationals are working in managerial, professional and skilled jobs.



• Non-nationals accounted for 13% of ROI population in 2007.
  

Read all about it in the new Mintel report on Multi-cultural Ireland. Access Mintel Irish Reports via the A-Z list of databases on the library website at http://www.dit.ie/library

Database Trial - track grant opportunities.

DIT Library Services has arranged a free trial of the COS Research Support Suite of databases. The trial will be an opportunity to view a product which aims to provide a comprehensive approach to managing the business of research. The following databases are included:

• COS Funding Opportunities: ( tracks grant opportunities and applications in all disciplines)
• COS Scholar Universe: (Information about more than 1.3 million scholars and organizations worldwide)

The trial will last from 1st April to 30th April 2008

Easter 2008 - Aungier St Library Opening Hours

March 17th: St Patrick's Day CLOSED

March 18th & 19th: 9.30am to 5.15 pm

March 20th: 9.30 am to 1.00 pm

The Library is closed from Friday March 21st to Tuesday March 25th inclusive.

March 26th to March 28th: 9.30am to 9.30pm

Saturday March 29th: 10.00am to 5.00pm

Database Trials

Free trials have been set up to two new Gale databases as follows:

Academic OneFile
A cross-disciplinary database of peer-reviewed, full-text journals with daily updates. Could be of interest to both Arts and Business researchers.

Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
Every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003.

These trials will be active until 21st March 2008. Please ask at the library desk for login and password details.

Events for Library Ireland Week

• 3rd-9th - Fomacs Centre Film Presentations:‘The Memory Box’, ‘The Richness of Change’& ‘Undocumented in Ireland: Our Stories’.
• Tue 4th - Staff Room, Kevin St. 6:45pm Classical Chinese poetry & Traditional Chinese music performances.
• Wed 5th & Thur 6th - Kevin St. Library 7.15pm Sufi poetry by Nuzhat Abbas, Sean Nós singing by Antaine ó Faracháin and Poetry readings by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Aosdána)