Journals: what are they & how to find them

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CONFUSED????
Then come to a drop in training session in the library to find out about journals; how to find them and how to use them effectively.

Wednesday   6th March 2013       12.00pm – 1.00pm
Monday       11th March 2013       2.00pm – 3.00pm

Venue: Library IT Room

Ebrary Ebooks - Top 20 titles

The top 20 Ebrary Ebook titles from September 2012 - February 2013 as viewed by GMIT library users.

Title	Author	User Sessions
Molecular Biotechnology : Principles and Applications	Glick, Bernard J.	106
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia		103
Organisational Behaviour	Appannaiah, H.R.	60
MS Excel 2007	Singh, Vishnu P.	51
Modern Irish Writers : A Bio-Critical Sourcebook	Gonzalez, Alexander G.	50
Personal Hygiene Care	Dingwall, Lindsay	50
Psychology for Nurses and the Caring Professions	Walker, Jan	44
Maran Illustrated Windows 7	Maran, Ruth	38
Excel VBA Programming For Dummies (2nd ed.)	Walkenbach, John	36
Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism	Neville, Colin	36
Female Nude : Art, Obscenity and Sexuality	Nead, Lynda	34
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Data Analysis : Your Visual	Etheridge, Denise	31
Coach Fellas : Heritage and Tourism in Ireland	Costa, Kelli Ann	28
Mental Health, Service User Involvement and Recovery	Weinstein, Jenny	27
Biology of Peatlands	Rydin , Hakan	26
Event Management	Mehndiratta, Vaibhav	26
Staining of Facades	Chew, Michael Y.L.	25
Organisational Behaviour	Nair, Suja R.	25
Manual of Construction Project Management	Sutt, Jari	25
Human Resource Management	Shivarudrappa, D.	24

Connacht-Ulster Alliance

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) and Institute of Technology, Sligo (IT Sligo) have formed a strategic partnership, the Connacht-Ulster Alliance. This alliance will allow reciprocal access and borrowing to the three institute libraries.

Staff and students from GMIT may visit IT Sligo & LYIT libraries and borrow two items for one week from their general borrowing collections.

If you wish to visit and borrow books from these libraries you will need to complete this form and hand in the form for processing.

For more information on reciprocal access and borrowing please ask at the library issue desk. 

Weekend Opening Starts this Weekend

Dublin Rd Library opening this weekend 22nd/23rd February
9.00am-9.00pm on Friday and 10.00-1.00pm on Saturday.

Weekend opening also on 1st/2nd March & 8th/9th March

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Irish Newspaper Archives

The library has set up a 1 month free trial to Irish Newspaper Archives.

The Irish Newspapers Archives is the world's largest online database of Irish Newspapers from which it is possible to search, retrieve and view Ireland's past. With many of Ireland's most prominent regional, daily and out of print titles, including:

• The Connaght Tribune
• The Connaght Sentinel
• Irish Independent 
• Sunday Independent 

This database holds digitized archived regional and national Irish newspapers. This means that you can view the newspapers exactly as they would have appeared in their print version.

To access this resource go to www.irishnewspaperarchives.com (IP recognition - on campus only)

Free Trial to 2 Journals from The Royal Society

The Royal Society is providing free access to Philosophical Transactions & Interface for 2013. The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. To find out more about the society go to: http://royalsociety.org/
 
Philosophical Transactions: 
In 1662, the newly formed 'Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge' was granted a charter to publish by King Charles II and on 6 March 1665, the first issue of Philosophical Transactions was published under the visionary editorship of Henry Oldenburg, who was also the Secretary of the Society. The first volumes of what was the world's first scientific journal were very different from today's journal, but in essence it served the same function; namely to inform the Fellows of the Society and other interested readers of the latest scientific discoveries. As such, Philosophical Transactions established the important principles of scientific priority and peer review, which have become the central foundations of scientific journals ever since.

Access: http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/

Interface: 
Journal of the Royal Society Interface is the Society's cross-disciplinary publication promoting research at the interface between the physical and life sciences. It offers rapidity, visibility and high-quality peer review and is ranked fifth in JCR's multidisciplinary category.

Access: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/

Full text access to these titles is on campus only.

Castlebar library hours have extended to 8pm from  this week beginning Monday 4th Feb.

New Electronic Resource - The British National Formulary (BNF). The BNF aims to provide prescribers, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals with sound up-to-date information about the use of medicines. See the library website at http://library.gmit.ie/screens/databaseshealth.html

February EndNote Web Drop-in Sessions

The following drop-in training sessions in EndNote Web will take place during the month of February. All sessions will take place in the I.T. Training Room in the library.

Tuesday 12th February 3.00-4.00 pm
Thursday 21st February 4.00-5.00 pm 
Wednesday 27th February 3.00-4.00 pm 

EndNote Web is an online bibliographic service which will help you to store and organise your references and automatically format citations, reference lists and bibliographies in your documents.

All are welcome, but spaces are limited and will be filled on a first come first served basis. Bookings can also be made for a class session by contacting the library.