Introduction to Endnote

NB: Next available class is on Friday 16th January 2009 at 11.30am.

An Introduction to EndNote.

This training session will take place on Monday 15th December 2008, 2.30pm - 4.30pm in the Research Skills Teaching Room, Q-1, Boole Library basement. Please meet at the Library Security Desk, just inside barriers at entrance to Library at 2.25pm. Now Full

If you, or anyone you know, would like to attend this session please email r.bradfield@ucc.ie or phone 3971 as places are limited. There will be future sessions for anyone unable to attend on the 15th December.

EndNote Class Notes PDF

SPIE Digital Library - IReL

After a successful trial, IReL are now subscribing to SPIE Digital Library.

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 260,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually.

SPIE DL is hosted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) as part of its Scitation platform.

Collections include
Micro/Nanotechnology
Sensor technologies
Biomedical Optics
Defense & Security
Communications
Imaging
Lighting & Energy
Astronomy

New Chemistry eBook Collection

We now have access to the RSC eBook 1968-2008 collection


The RSC eBook Collection is a definitive point of reference for anyone working in the chemical sciences. Over 700 books spanning 40 years have been brought together, digitalised as pdf files and made fully searchable. The result is a comprehensive overview of research and opinion in a multitude of areas of chemical science.
Continually updated and expanded throughout the year the RSC eBook Collection provides access to new content as it is published and continuous access to our full catalogue of books. The eBook Collection is fully searchable and indexed to chapter level, with all documents provided as pdfs. Excellent search engines, powered by Google, enable you to quickly retrieve the data you want.

Blackwell and Wiley Merge

Blackwell and Wiley have merged, and as a result, from the 30th of June Blackwell will appear on Wiley platform.

During June 28-29 2008, both Blackwell and Wiley will be unavailable while content is moved.

Patents - Trial to Thomson Patent Store

We now have a trial of Thomson Patent Store which gives access to full-text records via Derwent Innovations Index (DII) on the Web of Knowledge platform. Full text PDF links of patents are now added for trial. Trial ends June 7^th 2008.

Derwent Innovations Index^SM is a research tool that provides Web access to more than 14,800,000 patents with links to cited and citing patents, cited articles, and full-text patent data sources.

• EPO

• WIPO

• German Patent and Trademark Office

• USPTO

• English translation of the first page of the patent applications published by the Japanese Patent Office (since 2000)

• Direct access to patents from ARIPO, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Former East Germany, Great Britain-A, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan (original documents 1971-), Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, OAPI, Portugal, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Attention all Night Owls.

From Monday, April 14th 2008, there will be extended opening hours in the Library. The Quadrangle Reading Room on the Q (ground) floor will now be open after the library building closes (up to 1.45am). This is a study area only and there will be no access to books, photocopying or PCs. The room is self-contained with its own toilets and swipe access door. There are 88 reader spaces in the room and these will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. The room will be monitored by an invigilator who will have hotline access to Campus security.

The procedure for use of this room is that room will have to be vacated and all personal items removed when the Library closes. All library material will be removed from the room and entrances to the main library will be locked. Students can then re-enter through the external swipe access door. For security reasons all users of this room must also sign in with the invigilator.

Full details of Opening Hours can be seen here.

Trial of full archive of Royal Society publications

We now have a 60 day trial to the full archive of Royal Society Publishing

Their online journal collection is composed of seven peer-reviewed scientific publications, covering the biological and physical sciences, as well as the history and philosophy of science. Their digitised archive reaches back over 300 years (1665) and includes landmark papers from authors such as Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Alexander Flemming, Jams, Watson, Francis Crick and Stephen Hawking.

EMBiology Trial

A trial to EMBiology 1980-present is now available until 18-Apr-2008

A global biology indexing and abstracting database from Elsevier, EMBiology complements and extends EMBASE coverage in the basic biological sciences. Coverage extends from Biochemistry, Microbiology and Genetics through Biotechnology, Cell & Developmental Biology and Toxicology, to Plant Science, Agriculture & Food Science, Animal & Veterinary Science, and Ecology & Environmental Science.

EMBiology Quick Facts:

Journal coverage: more than 2800 active titles, including Trade Journals and Electronic-only Journals (books, patents & conference abstracts are not included)

Global coverage: cover-to-cover for all titles

Backfile to 1980: 4 million records

Current growth rate: 250,000 records/year

Abstracts: currently 85% (about 70% for the whole database)

St. Patricks Day and Easter

The Library will be open on St.Patricks Day, Monday March 17th, from 10am to 10pm (Customer and Information Desks closed)

The Library will be closed March 21st - 24th inclusive (Easter).

Further details can be found here.

Oxford Scholarship Online Trial

Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of over 1,900 Oxford books, including Biology, Mathematics, and Physics. Trial access to this database will expire on 20th March 2008 and is UCC access only.

Referex E-book Trial

Referex is a specialized electronic reference database, comprising of six editorially crafted collections of professionally focussed e-books which bring together key sources of reference material. The library already subscribes to two other of the EI (Engineering Information) collection, INSPEC and EI Compendex, available via our Electronic Resources list. Referex is fully searchable and instantly delivers full-text content of over 1,600 e-book titles across the following collections:

Chemical, Petrochemical and Process Engineering

Mechanical Engineering and Materials

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Computing

Networking and Security

Trial access to this database will expire on 25th March 2008.

SPIE Digital Library Trial

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 230,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually.

SPIE DL is hosted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) as part of its Scitation platform.

Collections include
Micro/Nanotechnology
Sensor technologies
Biomedical Optics
Defense & Security
Communications
Imaging
Lighting & Energy
Astronomy

Trial ends 30th April 2008 and is UCC access only.

Important Library Survey

The Library is currently running a rigorously tested web-based survey called LibQUAL.

It will give you the chance to tell us what you think about our services, and where the Library services need improvement. As a staff member or student, your feedback is very important.

The library is running the survey over the next 3 weeks. Please take 10 minutes to complete it. There are prizes which have been generously sponsored by suppliers.

You can take the survey at our Library website.

New catalogue enhancement with LibraryThing

As part of our OPAC redesign project, we have now rolled out a new enhancement feature. LibraryThing for Libraries is a social cataloguing web application which draws on the extensive LibraryThing database for tags, suggestions for similar titles and details of other editions and translations.
For an example of the links see “The architecture of happiness” by Alan De Botton.
You will see a list of “Similar Books” and a “tag cloud” at the bottom of the page.If you click on one of the tags at the bottom of the screen, it will open a tag browser which will show books in our collections with that LibraryThing tag.
In the same way, the “Similar Books” list is linked through the tags. All links are to other books in our collections.

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

We now have access to the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. You have access to full text back to Vol.1 1962.

The Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP) is an international journal for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in all fields of applied physics. The journal publishes articles dealing with the applications of physical principles as well as articles concerning the understanding of physics that have particular applications in mind. The journal not only covers all aspects of modern technology such as semiconductor devices including VLSI technology, photonic devices, superconductors, and magnetic recording but also covers other diverse areas such as plasma physics, particle accelerators, nanoscience and technology, and applied bioscience.

Chemistry - SciFinder Scholar Update

SciFinder Scholar 2007 is now available. Please update your software by following the instructions here. Before updating, please contact the Science Floor Q+1 for a username and password. These will be given by phoning you back on a UCC extension or by emailing to a UCC address in order to safeguard access rights.

New Multimedia area open

A new Multimedia area is now open and is located on Q+3.
It is positioned on the North East side of the floor (older section), and consists of 21 booths, 9 of which are doubles.

In terms of equipment, 19 of the booths have 26” Sony Bravia TVs. There are 4 Blu-ray HD players, 6 multiregional DVD (HDMI) players and 9 multiregional DVD/VCR ‘combis’. In addition 19 of the booths have Dell PCs. Two have the older audio equipment (for cassette, vinyl records). All seating is height adjustable with arm-rests.

Photoshop CS3 e-Books

Two new Photoshop CS3 e-books have been added to our Safari platform. You can read them online by clicking the relevant title.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book

Visual QuickStart Guide Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Macintosh

New Resource for Architecture - ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The resources are available solely for educational and/or scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature. Please read the Terms and Conditions of Use. Note: system requirements.