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Information Universe DIT Library Research Resources www.dit.ie/library
DIT Library Clicks & bricks Borrowing Library Sites DIT Library A-Z Ask a Librarian Kevin St Library
Library Accounts & PIN View Renew Request Reading history Remote Access http://www.library.dit.ie/
Library Resources: E-books for Computing • Library website www.dit.ie/library • Library catalogue www.library.dit.ie • Example Art of Software Testing
Library Community Letters of Introduction? Alcid? Sconul?
Research Question What do I need to find out? Where can I find the information? Is the information reliable? Is the information relevant?
Research Question Where to look? Catalogues (WebOpac) Databases Subject Portals E-journals Virtual Reference Desk
Library Resources - Hardcopy DIT Library WebOPAC Other Academic libraries
Library Resources - Electronic Subject Links Evaluated Web-links Databases & E-Journals Ask a Librarian
Informal Blogs, email Groupwork Wikis WebCourses Peers & tutors Focus groups Types of Academic Information Formal • Library Catalogues • Subject Portals • Textbooks & Ebooks • Databases • Journals • Theses & Projects
Primary Journal articles Standards Patents Reports Theses Lab results Secondary Textbooks Encyclopaedias Dictionaries Databases WWW Subject Portals Types of Academic Information
Subject Databases & Journals/E-Journals Articles Research Conference proceedings Standards Reports Where to Find Academic Information
Journals • Serials, Periodicals • short articles • subject specific • published weekly or monthly • reporting on research • peer reviewed • hardcopy v electronic e.g. Polymer 2008 Vol 49 No 20 (Sept) p.8-44
Magazines, Trade Journals • Less academic • Informative • Weekly • Editor driven
Finding Specific Journal Titles • DIT Library Catalogue • hardcopy & e-journals. • search by Journal Title 2. DIT Library Website • e-journals only • search by Title or Topic
Databases & Searching Multiple Journals
DIT Library Science Databases Why use? • Scholarly • Indexes 1000s key academic journals • Peer reviewed • Subject appropriate • Updated & current • Links to full text • Personalisation and social networking links • Current awareness services
DIT Library Computing Databases Which ones? Why Use more than one? • Science Direct • ACM • British Standards Online • Web of Science • IEEE Electronic Library DIT Library databases
Library Resources – Blogs & Mailing Lists • http://blogsearch.google.com • http://www.blogdigger.com • http://www.bloggapedia.com/ • ISWORLD • SEWORLD • DBWORLD • uk-usabibility • JISC http://www.jisc.ac.uk
ARROW@DIT Open Access Repository Ireland http://www.irel-open.ie Intute UK Research Repository ROAR http://roar.eprints.org/ OAIster http://www.oaister.org/ union catalog of digital resources OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). National Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (US) http://www.ndltd.org/ Library Resources: Institutional Repositories
Library Resources: Open Access • Cite Seer: Scientific Literature Digital Library • Cogprints • Computing Research Repository (CORR) • arXiv.org : E-Print Archive (Computing) • E-Print Network (Science) • Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA) • TechXtra
Library Resources: Subject Gateways • HEA http://www.heanet.ie • INFOMINE http://infomine.ucr.edu • BUBL http://www.bubl.ac.uk • INTUTE http://www.intute.ac.uk
www.intute.ac.uk Library Resources: INTUTE
The tutorials help answer : • What are the key websites I should be using for research in my subject field? • How do I search the Internet effectively? • What can I trust on the Internet? • How do other people use the Internet effectively to support their research?
Infomine • http://infomine.ucr.edu/
What about ? ‘In a 2002 survey of over two thousand US students only 9% used the library resources more than the internet’… - (O’Dochertaigh, N., Internet Research Skills Sage: 2007)