Free Trial - ClinicalSkills.net

Our Latest Free Trial is Clinicalskills.net: the resource that helps you put best practice into practice!

To find out more and access the trial go to: http://libguides.gmit.ie/trials

Free Trial - The Genealogist

Our latest free trial is The Genealogist…
Dedicated to helping you find your roots. 

The Genealogist is all about family history research and discovering your ancestors using a wide variety of data including:

• Census transcripts & Images 1841 to 1911
• Parish Records
• Non-Conformist & Non-Parochial records
•  The widest coverage: 1127 to 2005
•  WW1, WW2, Casualty Lists, PoWs & more

Features:

•  Extensive Collection of Directories
• Quality data, checked by experts
• Unique, Powerful Search Tools
• Awarded Best BMD and Census site

Access the free trial on campus directly from www.thegenealogist.com – a full list of trials are available from http://libguides.gmit.ie/trials. 

We welcome your feedback and recommendations!

Emerald Insight has a new look!

Take a look around & find the best research for your needs today!
Visit  http://www.emeraldinsight.com

Searching our databases?

Need Help???

Look at the EBSCO user guides which are designed to cover the basics of searching and browsing EBSCO interfaces as well as how to manage your result list using limiters and facets.

https://help.ebsco.com/interfaces/EBSCO_Guides/EBSCO_Interfaces_User_Guide

Free Online Trial to Who's Who

Our latest free trial is Who’s Who & Who Was Who.

Who's Who, is the leading source of up-to-date information about over 33,000 influential people from all walks of life, worldwide, who have left their mark on British public life.

Who Was Who is an invaluable historical archive that collects together the entries of over 100,000 people, now deceased, who were included in previous editions of Who's Who.

Containing autobiographical listings of senior politicians, judges, civil servants, and notable figures from the arts, academia, and other areas, it is an invaluable research tool and unique way of measuring social change.

Learn more about Who's Who and Who Was Who user-friendly functionality  and how it can help you organize and manage your research journey.

Free Online Trial to Oxford Reference Library

Start your research journey with an online collection of in-depth, specialist content from Oxford's award-winning Encyclopedias and Companions, as well as a critical selection of scholarly works from their publishing partners. 

Each title is fully cross-searchable with a variety of supplemental content including 300,000+ free subject overview pages and 275 unparalleled historic timelines.

To learn more about Oxford Reference and the content you have access to, please visit the About page. 

Take a tour of the product and learn how its user friendly functionality can help you organize and manage your research journey.

The trial is available from www.oxfordreference.com on campus until the 17^th December 2016.

If you have any questions about Oxford Reference Library, please get in touch. 

Welcome back after Easter

We hope your raring to go for the last few weeks of this academic year... make full use of the library opening hours - http://libcal.gmit.ie/hours.php.

If you can't get to the library use our online books, journals and newspapers; available 24/7 with your library PIN from http://library.gmit.ie/

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Need help figuring out how to use our many online resources

See our LibGuides page @ http://libguides.gmit.ie/eresources or book a session so we can help you find quality, relevant information from our vast collection of online journals, books, conference proceedings and newspapers.

Ancestry for Genealogical and Historical Research

Free Online Trial to Ancestry for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more! These collections are continuously expanding, with new content added every business day.
This trial is available on campus until the 21-Feb-2016.

Go to:  https://trials.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=IPFT8KPZHG7LVDS66189

Film & Performing Arts - Free Trial

Check out the Film & Performing Arts Discipline Collection from JSTOR.

This collection provides a diverse set of high-quality journals that serve researchers and scholars in fields that rely on film and performing arts titles to support their work.

Title List:

Black Camera 1536-3155
Film History: An International Journal 0892-2160
Framework 0306-7661
Jewish Film & New Media 2169-0324
Journal of Film and Video 0742-4671
The Eugene O'Neill Review 1040-9483
The Moving Image 1532-3978

Go to: http://0-www.jstor.org.library.gmit.ie/ until 16 November 2015.

Free trial to Grove Art Online

Our latest free trial is to Oxford Art Online’s Grove Art Online. 
 

The trial provides access to the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art. First published as the landmark 34-volume Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, the content of Grove Art encompasses all aspects of visual culture.

This free access is available on campus until 25^th October 2015.

To begin using Grove Art Online on Oxford Art Online, visit www.oxfordartonline.com and start searching!

Need statistics?

Check out our free trial to http://www.statista.com/  

with access to relevant data from over 18,000 sources

On campus only for the next 4 weeks

New Video on Library YouTube Channel

Check out our new video on the library's YouTube Channel ... Advanced Database Searching & Features

Free Trial - Sage Research Methods

Our latest free trial is..... SAGE Research Methods.....

A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.

With SAGE Research Methods, researchers can explore their chosen method across the depth and breadth of content, expanding or refining their search as needed; read online, print, or email full-text content; utilize suggested related methods and links to related authors from SAGE Research Methods' robust library and unique features; and even share their own collections of content through Methods Lists.

SAGE Research Methods contains content from over 720 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire “Little Green Book,” and "Little Blue Book” series, two Major Works collating a selection of journal articles, and specially commissioned videos.

Go to http://srmo.sagepub.com/cases to access this free trial (on campus only).

A set of videos that will support the use of specific functions of SAGE Research Methods to help you to fully utilize the features is available at http://srmo.sagepub.com/page/tips-and-tutorials/tutorials

We would much appreciate your feedback.

Cambridge Histories Online - FREE TRIAL

We are very pleased to announce that we have set up a trial to Cambridge Histories Online.

Access over 500 of the most scholarly introductions to people and subjects across literature, classics, philosophy, religion, culture and music.

Cambridge Companions Online brings together subject-based ebook collections from the renowned Cambridge Companions series. Written by leading experts in their field, the Companions have been used by students and scholars for over 25 years.

To access the trial please go to the following URL:
http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/

Cambridge University Press have also activated trials to:

• Cambridge Companions - http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/companions/ 
• Shakespeare Survey - http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/shakespeare/ 

These three platforms all have the same feel and functionality so are a good selection to trial at the same time.

The trials are available on campus until 30th April 2014.

If you have any problems or comments of any kind please contact us.
 

Free Trial - Gale Artemis: Literary Sources

With over five million documents and growing, no other publisher can offer the range and depth of Gale Artemis: Literary Sources - the complete online literature subscription which brings together all of Gale's finest literature resources on one platform including:

• Literature Resource Center
• Literature Criticism Online
• Scribner Writers Online 
• Twayne's Authors Online

A free trial to Gale Artemis is available on campus until 11th November 2013 using this url: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/gmit?db=GLS

 

As always we welcome your feedback.

 

Online Resources Login Problems

Unfortunately, after upgrading our library system we are experiencing some technical difficulties with accessing our online resources directly via WAM. If you login to 'My Library Account' then choose 'Search the Catalogue' on the left & 'Electronic Resources' from the menu on the right hand side you will be able to access the resources fine.

 

Apologies for the inconvenience, we hope to have this issue resolved as soon as possible.

 

'Connection is Untrusted' Error Message

If you are having problems accessing the library's online resources (ebooks, databases, ejournals) because of the message 'Connection is Untrusted' please note this error message means that our library security certificate has expired - we are in the process of getting the certificate renewed.

In the meantime please click on the Confirm Exception (Firefox) or Continue to this Website (Internet Explorer) to access our online resources.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

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