Database Days – This June in the Library

Sign up for our annual programme of sessions aimed at University staff. This year we have hour-long courses on RefWorks, scholarly publishing and citation metrics. For the full programme and our booking form see our Database Days 2009 page.

ticTOCs – New table of contents service from JISC

A JISC-funded consortium has just launched ticTOCS – a free journals table of contents service. The service provides contents of the most recent issue of over 12,000 scholarly journals from over 430 different publishers.

You can:

• search by title, subject or publisher;
• view tables of contents;
• link through to publisher’s page for your article;
• export results to RefWorks;
• specify journals in your ticTOC account for future views and feeds.

Publishers covered by ticTOCs include Biomed Central, CUP, Elsevier, Emerald, Hindawi, IEEE, Inderscience, InformaWorld, Nature, OUP, Sage, Springer, Wiley and Wolters-Kluwer.

Building collections of research books

Academics and researchers! Do you feel there are significant gaps in the Library’s research collections?

The Library encourages the development of coherent collections of titles around specific research themes. If you have an area of specialisation that you feel merits additional stock in the Library, we can get the material for you.

You may have books in catalogues, brochures or leaflets that you have been meaning to get. All you have to do is put the essential details into our Online Order Form and submit it to the Library (ignore the fields relating to “Short Loan”). The Business Librarian will have the order processed, and with luck it should be on the shelves in a few weeks.

If you have any queries about the ordering process, contact David (details on Business Subject Portal).

DCUBS research community – A big “Thank You” from the Library!

Many thanks to all of you who did the questionnaire for our recent survey on IReL resources. The response rate was fantastic – double that of the previous survey in 2007!

We very much need to know what researchers think about the vital resources Irish university libraries have secured through SFI and HEA funding, so your cooperation in this matter was invaluable.

Searcher – The new way for you to search Library databases!

We are delighted to announce the arrival of Searcher, a convenient new way to search across the huge range of the Library’s scholarly databases. You can use Searcher to search across one or more subject (e.g. “Business” and “Company Information”), or you can select the individual databases you want to concentrate on (e.g. JSTOR, Sage and ScienceDirect).

Searcher is not intended to replace specialist discovery tools such as Econlit, PsycInfo or Web of Science. If you like, though, you can include these databases in a Searcher search!

Go ahead and give Searcher a try! You’ll find it on the Library home page. Although it’s already at an advanced stage of development, Searcher is also being tested. So if you’d like to tell us what you think, we’d very much appreciate your comments through our quick and easy feedback form.