Thursday, October 30, 2014

Need Help with Maths?


Drop-in Training Session Schedule:

November 2014

Tuesday 4th... 2.30-3.30 - ProQuest Flow
Tuesday 11th... 10.00-11.00 - EndNote 
Wednesday 12th... 11.45-12.45 - ProQuest Flow
Monday 17th... 3.00-4.00 - ProQuest Flow
Tuesday 18th... 11.00-12.00 - Referencing with MS Word 
Thursday 20th... 10.00-11.00 - Using the Online Library 
Monday 24th... 3.00-4.00 - EndNote 
Wednesday 26th... 3.00-4.00 - Referencing with MS Word 
Friday 28th... 11.30-12.30 - ProQuest Flow

Sessions are held in the Dublin Rd. Library IT Room (ground floor, half way down on the left)

No need to sign-up just drop-in!

Monday, October 13, 2014

Library Drop-in Training Session

If you need help with any of the following why not come along to one of the drop-in training session in the Dublin Rd. campus library IT room.
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EndNote Online 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 word documents.
ProQuest Flow is a new resource that collects, manages and organizes research papers and documents.  You can read annotate, organize, and cite your research as well as collaborate with friends by sharing collections. Flow works seamlessly with our ‘MultiSearch’ discovery search.
Referencing with MS Word is geared towards 1st years who want to know how to create a bibliography or works cited in Microsoft Word. If input your sources into Word, it can create and update a bibliography automatically. This can save you a lot of time and help to ensure that your references are accurate and correct.
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Upcoming Sessions:
EndNote Online - Tuesday 14th October 3.00-3.45 p.m.
ProQuest Flow - Thursday 16th October 11.45-12.30 p.m.
EndNote Online - Monday 20th October 10.00-10.45 a.m.
ProQuest Flow - Tuesday 21st October 2.30-3.15 p.m.
Advanced Database Searching - Wednesday 22nd October 10.15-11.00 a.m.
EndNote Online - Friday 24th October 11.00-11.45 a.m.
Referencing with MS Word - Wednesday 29th October 3.00-3.45 p.m.

Or, if you want to book a session for a group please email libraryeservices@gmit.ie
Looking forward to seeing you in a session soon - there's no need to book just drop-in!

2 Free Trials

The library has setup trials to Ebsco's Bloomberg BusinessWeek and Forbes archives  until the 7th November 2014. To access the databases directly please use the following URLs:

Bloomberg BusinessWeek -  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,shib&profile=ehost&defaultdb=bwa

Forbes - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,shib&profile=ehost&defaultdb=fba

Both magazine archives date back to the first issue of publication.

Forbes Digital Archive  (1917 through 2000)

Forbes has delivered essential business and financial information for nearly a century. Providing electronic access to the world’s best business news in the following areas: Business Leaders; Politics; Entertainment; Technology; Communication; Culture and Style; Health care.

Bloomberg Businessweek Digital Archive (1929 through 2000)

Bloomberg Businessweek has been a leading business and financial news magazine since 1929. The archive contains full text for over 3,500 total issues and covers: Business School Rankings; Marketing; Finance; Management; Technology; Politics; Design; Small Business; Global Economics.

Access is available on site with no user restrictions and you have access to the full range of content.

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Introducing ProQuest Flow

A new service from ProQuest is now available - it's called Flow!

Flow helps you collect, mange and organise research papers and documents. Once documents are entered in Flow you can read, annotate, organise and cite your documents. You can also collaborate with colleagues by sharing collections.

It's easy-to-use and integrated with most research sites, ProQuest Flow is a next generation cloud-based research management and collaboration solution that helps researchers better manage citations and full text documents and gain control over the research workflow. Flow comes from the team that delivered RefWorks, the innovators of reference management for more than a decade.

During a MultiSearch session, users new to Flow can easily create a Flow account and begin to save search results from MultiSearch in Flow. Persistent access to both platforms streamlines the workflow making saved research from past sessions accessible and always up to date.

Since Flow is cloud-based, there's no software to install or update. You can access your research instantly on any device. And when it comes to writing, Flow for Word syncs with your library so you can cite right in your document, researchers can seamlessly insert and edit citations while writing in Microsoft Word— no Internet connection required. One click imports all your existing references from EndNote Web!

Flow takes reference management to the next level by helping researchers manage full text documents and their citations to simplify the research and collaboration process. It goes beyond the capabilities of your average reference management tool, making it a much more robust research management solution.

For more information go to: https://flow.proquest.com/ or check out this video: http://youtu.be/xgnizQd2vMA