Over the next few weeks DCU Library will be running a series of classes and presentations on RefWorks our citation management software  and on Zotero its free open source equivalent. If you are interested in registering, check out the schedule of events in the DCU Library Blog.

The Library will be celebrating Open Access Week with a series of events on open access and on depositing your scholarly publications in DORAS. For more details, see the DCU Library Blog.

A number of the events on the upcoming Innovation Dublin programme are taking place here at DCU. You can get a list of these events and a booking form at this link. The DCU events take place across the campus from Thursday 15 October to Wednesday 21 October.

For the full programme of events throughout Dublin, visit the Innovation Dublin website.

DORAS, our institutional repository, showcases scholarly DCU output to international readership online. It already contains almost 75 DCUBS and LINK working papers and recent PhD theses. It also hosts article manuscripts that have gone on to be published in scholarly journals. A presence on DORAS has the potential to increases the impact of a scholar’s work.

We want to expand the number of papers on DORAS, so if you have any journal articles, book chapters or published proceedings papers, you can email them to DORAS or phone our DORAS manager Rachel Hill. Please note that most publishers only permit authors to post an author-created version of a paper (reflecting any change made in peer review) on repositories like DORAS, so please do not submit any publisher PDFs. The Library will check each submitted paper for copyright compliance before making it public.

The Library has produced a Quick guide to Harvard style of referencing. It is based on the existing Library guide with some minor additions and amendments (e.g. revised rules for journals, newspapers and ebooks).

Not all sources are covered in this quick guide.  Where you need information on other sources, you should consult the original full length Citing and referencing guide.

The quick guide is intended as an interim measure. We will be producing a completely revised guide for the academic year 2010/11. The revised edition will have comprehensive coverage of information sources.  We welcome feedback on the interim quick guide.

Thanks to Sarah Ingle for drawing the Business Blog’s attention to Innovation Dublin’s week-long festival of events of interest to entrepreneurs, students and researchers. The events take place from Wednesday, 14 October to Tuesday, 20 October in various library, educational, cultural and public locations around the City! For more information, visit the Innovation Dublin website.

If you are concentrating on research activities in Semester 1 and want to get more research monographs in your field into the Library collection, you are invited to put orders in to the Library. All you have to do is put the essential details into our online order form and send it to the Business Librarian. In the normal course of events, books should be on the shelves around 6 weeks after the original order.

A final reminder for lecturers who still wish to order in some core texts for Semester 1 business modules. Although any orders you send in now won’t be on the shelves for the beginning of semester, the average 6-week turnaround time means it may still be possible to get short loan items on the shelves by the end of October.

If you still want to order, please do so without delay using our online form.

Over the past year, The Business Blog has been posting a number of thematic mini-guides. These overviews bring together subscribed and free information resources from diffuse locations. The idea is to provide a well-grounded jumping-off point for particular types of research.

Here is a full list of these overviews:

Business news — Classic articles — Company information –
Country reports — Discovery tools — Irish Times archives –
Market research — Statistics & data — Theses & dissertations.

We hope to add more resource guides over time. If you have any ideas on what you’d like to see, we’d be delighted if you could post a Comment below or email the Business Librarian.