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.