JSTOR Demo on YouTube

JSTOR offers full text of early back issues of all of JSTOR’s scholarly journals in all disciplines, in some cases back to the 19th century. YouTube offers some "getting started" videos.

Christmas Holiday Closing

The Boole Library will close at 1.00pm on Friday 21st December 2007 and will reopen at 8.30am on Wednesday January 2nd 2008.

Also note, due to some building work, the Library will close earlier at 8.45pm on Friday 14th December and will be closed all day on Saturday 15th December 2007. Details of our opening hours can be found here.

Mathematics EBooks from Springer

You now have access to 1,200 full text Mathematics and Statistics electronic books from Springer

EBooks Mathematics and Statistics copyright years 2005-2008 – English language

We have purchased copyright years 2005 – 2008, English language, so these will show up as full text on the above link but note you will not have access to books copyright pre 2005 or foreign language.

All 1,200 full access titles will eventually appear on our catalogue.

You can read these books, chapter by chapter (via a PDF link), or alternatively, use any keyword in the search box on the home page, i.e. type 'Linear Algebra' and you will get the combined hits over all Springer journals and book chapters where this phrase is used, and then you can use any of the additional functionality on the right hand side of the page to refine your search.

BioOne Trial

BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.

BioOne provides integrated access to an information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Trial runs until 21st December 2007.

Computer E-books

Doing Computer Science? Then why not check out our range of full text electronic books. A full list of titles via Safari can be seen on our catalogue here.

Dissertations and Theses database

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
With more than 2.3 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. Graduate students customarily consult the database to make sure their proposed thesis or dissertation topics have not already been written about. Students, faculty, and other researchers search it for titles related to their scholarly interests. Of the millions of graduate works listed, we offer over 1.9 million in full text format.

Chemistry - SciFinder Scholar Training Materials

New SciFinder Scholar training materials are now available for downloading from the CAS web page on www.cas.org. These materials are designed to help you train new students and faculty to explore SciFinder.

The new Web page includes:
SciFinder Scholar Training Overview (PowerPoint; 3 MB)
Orientation Homework Questions (PDF; 100 KB)
Answer Key for Orientation Homework Questions (PDF; 240 KB)
You can access these new training materials from:—
the support page for academics:
http://www.cas.org/support/academic/index.html
or the support page for SciFinder Scholar:
http://www.cas.org/support/academic/sf/index.html

October Public Holiday

The Boole Library will be open for reading on Saturday 27th October from 10:00-12:45 and on Monday 29th October from 10:00-21:45. Full details of our opening hours can be seen here.

Library Orientation Workshops for Postgraduates

As part of the Postgraduate Induction there will be college specific workshops.

Library Orientation Workshops for Research Students:

Humanities: Monday, October 22nd at 11am
Business and Law: Wednesday, October 24th at 1pm
Science, Engineering and Food Science: Tuesday, October 23rd at 11am or
Thursday, October 25th at 11am
Medicine and Health: Friday, October 26th at 12pm

To book a place email r.bradfield@ucc.ie

New Trial

IOS Press
IOS Press publishes 90 international journals, ranging from computer science and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences. IOS Press services a variety of scientific and medical communities in all parts of the world. This database is available until 31st March 2008.

Have you reached your information overload?

ScienceDirect's TOP25 is a free service that allows you to quickly pinpoint the key new developments and trends in your field. The TOP25 provides lists of the most popular articles from over 2,000 scientific, technical and medical journals on ScienceDirect. It's a great tool to help take the stress out of research and quickly identify those hot, new developments everyone's reading about.

Web of Knowledge Training

There will be a training session in the Boole Library Seminar Room next Wednesday 19th September, from 10.00a.m.-12.30p.m. on Web of Knowledge. Places are limited so please contact c.clehane@ucc.ie to request a place by Friday 14th.

Web of Knowledge New Interface Training

Program:

Introduction to the New Web of Knowledge: How it was developed and why.
The New Interface: An exploration of the new design, what’s changed and what’s the same.
My personal space- how to create a profile and access your personal area.
Searching- examination of the new way of searching, all database, general and cited reference searching.
The results summary page- how the results now display.
The full record- new features on the full record.
Analysing and Refining- new ways to focus your search.
Looking for an author of interest? Using the Author Finder Tool and DAIS system.
Citation Report- examine citation trend and data such as average citation rate per item and per year for a set of results.
Saving your work- new look to your saved searches and new rules
Keep up to date- citation alerts and query alerts.
Exporting your results- changes in extracting data.
Your Endnote Web Library- how to manage your folders, search online, share your folders, import results from other sources and insert references into a paper using Cite While you Write.

Interested in a career in the oil and gas sector?

UCC has free access to the upstream oil industry on-line publication, OilVoice, via username and password available from Q+1. Email: librarysciencefloor@ucc.ie or tel. 2284


OilVoice is a valuable source of upstream oil industry reference, featuring a global selection of oil company profiles in one location, alongside continually updated industry news, statistical data and focused regional information. OilVoice provides a ‘one-stop’ industry overview for anyone interested in a career in the oil and gas sector. UCC access to OilVoice is sponsored by Tullow Oil.

Open For Business Again

The SEFS collections are now available on our newly refurbished floor Q+1. A new addition to our floor is the Dewey range 000-099, which contains the Computer Science books and journals. The Q+1 floor now contains the following Dewey Ranges
000-099
500-599
600-699


Our telephone number and email remain the same
Tel: 2284 Outside of UCC +353 (0)21 4902284
Email: librarysciencefloor@ucc.ie

We still have some rearranging of stock to do, so there may be some noise/disruption for the next few weeks. We look forward to welcoming you back and thank you for your patience over the past few months.

Boole Closed on Monday August 6th

UCC Libraries will be closed on Monday August 6th 2007 as it is a Public Holiday. You can check opening hours here.

Sciences Closure

The SEFS library on Q-1 will be closed from Monday July 30th to Tuesday August 7th. This is to allow stock and materials currently on Q-1 to be moved to Q+1.

The Science, Engineering, and Food Science collections will reopen in their new permanent and refurbished floor Q+1 on Tuesday August 7th 2007. The floor will house the Dewey numbers 500 - 699, as well as 000-099 (Computer Science and Generalities). We look forward to welcoming you back to our new space.

Site of the Day -Scirus

As an alternative to Google Scholar why not try searching Scirus http://www.scirus.com/. Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 415 million science-specific Web pages.
Search engines are all different in the Web sites they cover, and the way they classify these Web sites. Scirus, the search engine for science, focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content. Read more information here.

Tip of the Day

JSTOR is a fantastic archival database providing full text back as far as the 19th century. If you would prefer a high quality PDF of your article rather than the scanned image that JSTOR provides , just click on the Download link at the bottom of each reference on your results page.
Article Information /Page of First Match /Print/ Download /Save Citation

IReL Pick of the Day

We now have so many new electronic resources via IReL that you may be unaware of some of them. An excellent collection of online dictionaries and encyclopedias is Oxford Reference Online.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection includes over 1 million entries across 25 subject areas - everything from architecture to zoology. It offers the very best in quick reference information together with authoritative, in-depth articles by world-famous authors. It also offers excellent functionality, and a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations and timelines.

Summer Opening Hours

Please note that from July 1st to September 30th the Library closes at 4.30pm Mon-Fri, and at 12.45pm on Saturdays. Full details are posted here.

New UCC Library Extension

The new postgraduate extension to the original 1983 Boole Library is nearly completed. In 3 weeks we will be moving to our new floor Q+1, which is currently undergoing refurbishment. More photos of the new extension can be found here.

All photos by Richard Bradfield

You can view an aerial view here.

SEFS on the Move

The Science, Engineering, and Food Science floor, known also as Q+2, closed on the 1st June 2007. Over the June Bank Holiday weekend an army of workers transferred (temporarily) all the material down to the Basement area Q-1 of the Boole. Q+2 is the first floor to be refurbished and will be the new home to Law and the Social Sciences. Until August you will find all your SEFS material and the Q+2 staff located on Q-1. A Reading Room is available and certain book stock (500-574) is on open-access. The remaining books and all the journals are in a closed access compact shelving area, and are by request only. Staff will be delighted to assist you, so please do not hesitate to ask at their new Information Desk, or use their usual phone number 2284. You can also email librarysciencefloor@ucc.ie. We will move in August to our new permanent home on Q+1, which will also have been refurbished.

Information Literacy

Our Information Literacy pages have been updated and can be viewed here. Some useful information on doing a literature review and Searching the Internet are included.

New Trial

Science of Synthesis Trial.
Science of Synthesis is one of the most in-depth authoritative information sources available on synthetic methodology and contains information on 18 000 generally applicable experimental procedures, which include 180 000 reactions and 800 000 structures. This electronic product for Science of Synthesis provides a direct path through the mass of primary literature to the pertinent data on a comprehensive range of organic reactions. This database is available until 30th September 2007.

New Trial

E-Books from ScienceDirect.
Trial access to over 500 eBooks on ScienceDirect has now been entitled and can be accessed online via Science Direct. This trial is available until the 1st September 2007.A Complete title list is available for your review. In addition, links to the full text on ScienceDirect have been included.Pricing/Licensing Options : Fact Sheet

New Blog for UCC

This is the new blog created for the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science in the University College Cork.