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Slides from Scopus training presented by Peter Darroch of  Elsevier are now available at: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/support/training/usefulguides/

Slides from Web of Knowledge training presented by Don Sechler of  Thomson Reuters are now available at: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/support/training/usefulguides/

As of Monday morning 11th June, it will not be possible to access or locate books in the following areas for a period of one week: 810 – 838.8 KEL  ·            930 – 998.2 This is due to essential maintenance works. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience.            [All stock between 838.8 KEL and 930 is available for consultation – please use rear (emergency) stairwell to access it] If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the  Customer Services Desk.

"The Web, they say, is leaving the era of search and entering one of discovery. What's the difference? Search is what you do when you're looking for something. Discovery is when something wonderful that you didn't know existed, or didn't know how to ask for, finds you" [ http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/27/8394347/ ] bX, a relatively new product acquired by the Library, is a remarkable scholarly article discovery service, recommending alternative or companion scholarly articles when using the SFX feature of a database, based on article usage- a bit like "Recommendations for You" within Amazon. So how does it work? Within SFX it uses the article you've just found to recommend 20 new articles that other users were also interested in. How do I avail of this service: Within your article search click on the SFX button: A list of recommendations will appear under the link to the article: Have y...

If you are working or studying from off-campus during the summer, you may wish to search for what e-books or e-journals the library has available. The following steps will lead you to e-books on your chosen topic. Remember you must Sign In for off-campus access to e-books or e-journals to work!! Step 1: Sign in, so as to ensure you're recognised as an NUI Galway user, even off campus. Step 2: Carry out your search - simply enter the author, title or subject keyword that you are interested in. Step 3: Click on 'Show Only Online Resources', which appears just above your result list. This will limit the results to items that match your search criteria and are available online. Any hardcopy printed books or journals will be omitted. Step 4: If you are only interested in e-books you can now use the Refine my Results functionality on the right hand side of the screen to narrow your results down to books only. Simply click on the word 'Books' under 'Resourc...

Slides from the Mendeley training presented by Ted Vickey from DERI in May 2012 are available at  http://www.slideshare.net/tedvickey/mendeley-training-2012 Description Introduction to Mendeley open source bibliographic management software for researchers. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network.

  As of Monday morning 11th June, it will not be possible to access or locate books in the following areas for a period of one week:- 320.9 - 499 650 - 659 700 - 809 This is due to essential maintenance works. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience.  Please note that following this there are 2 further phases of this work:    From approximately Monday 25th June the 800-900 section (middle floor section covering literature, languages history, etc) will also be temporarily closed off for two weeks (with Library staff access for the second week) From approximately Monday the 9th of July the 0-320.8 section will be closed off for two weeks (with library staff access for the second week).   If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the Customer Services Desk.

Open Access in the News. The finer details of 3 rd level education policy and spending don't often make news in the main stream media, however when the Harvard University Faculty Advisory Council issued a memo to all faculty stating that journal subscription costs were " fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive" several articles appeared in the press including stories in The Guardian , The Atlantic and Time Magazine . The Harvard memo has drawn attention to academic journal subscription costs and one of the academic community's responses to these costs: Open access publishing . "Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder."  The library at NUI Galway helps facilitate open access publishing through our institutional repository ARAN .   Many funders including Science Fo...