Thursday, March 27, 2014

Library Study Room Bookings Go Online

The Library is piloting a new online reservation system for booking group study rooms. Bookings are made from the computer at the Dublin Rd. library desk with your GMIT e-mail address.

Please tell us what you think of this service, your feedback is important, if this service is introduced you will be able to book group study rooms online from anywhere.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Upcoming Drop-in Training Sessions

The Library offer a variety of sessions throughout the year on a range of topics from advanced database searching to how to use the online library, referencing items correctly and using EndNote Online.

Upcoming Sessions: 

Citation & Referencing | Monday 31st March 2:15pm – 3:00pm 
Outline of the Harvard Style of Referencing the manual way. 

EndNote Online | Tuesday 1st April 3:00pm – 4:00pm 
Find out how to use EndNote Online to help you to organise your citations and easily create a bibliography in Word.

Using the Online Library | Wednesday 2nd April 12:15pm – 1:00pm 
Learn how to use the Online Library focusing on MultiSearch, setting up library pin numbers, requesting books, accessing exam papers etc. 

Copyright & Plagiarism | Thursday 3rd April 10:15am – 11:00am 
Definition of copyright, learn what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.

Advanced Database Searching | Friday 4th April 12:00pm – 12:45pm 
Improve your search skills to give you relevant results quickly, advanced search techniques.

Journals: what are they & how to find them | Monday 7th April 2:30pm – 3:15pm 
Learn why you should use journals, find out where you can locate them online and in print.

Information Sources | Wednesday 8th April 10:15am – 11:00pm 
Learn about primary and secondary sources, academic books, scholarly journals and peer review.

EndNote Online | Friday 11th April 10:00am – 11:00am 
Find out how to use EndNote Online to help you to organise your citations and easily create a bibliography in Word. 

There's no need to book just drop-in to a session in the Dublin Rd. library IT room
(library ground floor half way down on the left)

Monday, March 24, 2014

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.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Have Your Say!

We need your help to improve our services, fill in the Library Survey today and have your say.

We would really like to hear from you about what we're getting right or what we could be doing better. Information that we collect in this survey will be used for planning future developments and tweaking services we already offer.

Go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8YYGMJG to take the short survey now.

Many thanks!