Wiley-Blackwell – interruption in service

Access to Wiley-Blackwell and all its content will be down on Saturday, 18th July from 10am for approximately 2 hours.

RefWorks and Google Scholar

As of yesterday, direct export from Google Scholar to RefWorks isn’t working. Google are aware of this problem and are looking into it. We will update this post with news.

Social Networking for Researchers

Academia.edu is a new social networking site for researchers. It has a great layout, allowing you to browse easily by research interests,  univerity or school. A number of DCU researchers have already joined it. The level of detail you add is optional: you can add your research interests, your photo,  your CV, your published papers, a link to your Facebook account and your contact details.

RefWorks class

We will run a one hour Introduction to RefWorks class next week. All DCU staff and students are welcome.

Introduction to RefWorks
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
1030-1130
Training Room 1, DCU Library

Email jack.hyland@dcu.ie to book your place.

What is RefWorks?

Transition Year Students Take Five

Last Wednesday, the Library played host to a number of transition year students who were on campus as part of the Take Five Programme: an initiative designed to give students an opportunity to explore the various options available to them at third-level.

Students participating in the half day workshop learnt about internet resources to assist them with their school projects with a big emphasis on the importance of the evaluation of online sources.  The session included plenty of hands on activities, a discussion on the pros and cons of social networking and a tour of the Library.

Library staff were highly impressed with the skills the students already possessed & would like to say a big thanks to everyone for their energy and enthusiasm!!

CrossFire – access is down

UPDATE 10/06/09 1407: Access to CrossFire is now back up. Contact jack.hyland@dcu.ie if you are still having problems.

If you notice any persistent problems with Library journals or databases (i.e. something isn’t working more than an hour) contact library@dcu.ie.