May 15, 2012 at
10:14 am, by
Lewis Childs
“The records of the Irish Chancery were destroyed on 30 June 1922 in an explosion and fire in the Public Record Office of Ireland, located at the Four Courts, Dublin. Among the most important classes of record destroyed were the medieval Irish Chancery Rolls… CIRCLE is the culmination of nearly four decades of work reconstructing these lost records…The site contains over 20,000 Irish chancery letters translated from Latin into English, together with an unparalleled collection of digital images of surviving medieval chancery letters and rare printed volumes.” [From CIRCLE Home page]
May 11, 2012 at
3:13 pm, by
Michael Carragher
Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, is now available off-campus. Once you log in to the Portal, you should get seamless access to Scopus. If you haven’t used Scopus or the affiliated database ScienceDirect before, you may need to fill out a one-time registration form to set up a user profile. You can get help about that here. Please get in touch with your subject librarian if you need any further help.
In addition to Scopus being available off-campus, we have enabled the FindIt button which allows you to connect through to our electronic journal holdings so you can see if we subscribe to the full text of the article that you are interested in. Remember, if you want the full text of an article and we don’t appear to have a subscription, you can use our Document Delivery service to try to obtain it.
May 10, 2012 at
2:34 pm, by
Michael Carragher
The Scopus title list has been updated with almost 300 new titles since the end of 2011.
This brings the total number of active titles in Scopus to over 19,500. Scopus has a broad coverage in all subject areas with 33% of its titles in Health Sciences, 30% in Physical Sciences, 21% in Social Sciences and 16% in Life Sciences.
New in the title list are the additional tabs of post-1995 and pre-1996 conferences covered in Scopus. These are mostly non-serial conference events that are covered in Scopus and do not have a profile as serial publication in the main title list. In total, there are close to 16,500 conference events covered in Scopus, in addition to the 250 active serial conference titles. This overview makes the coverage of conference material in Scopus even more transparent for the user.
Also new in the title list is the option to filter titles per publisher, with the various imprints of major publishers grouped to the main publisher name. This makes it easier to find all publications from one publisher that are covered in Scopus.
The updated Scopus title list can be found here.
May 2, 2012 at
3:46 pm, by
Michael Carragher
When we moved over from RefWorks Classic to our present RefWorks a number of months ago, we lost some functionality. This has now been restored, so you can now go into the Customize link at the top of the screen and create up to three different output styles to view your references in folders in alternative formats. If you want to see your references in RefWorks in a particular output style, for example, Harvard – Ulster Business School, you can select your style from the drop-down menu and click on the Save Customized Settings button. Once you have done this you can select your style from the Change View menu at the top of your folder in the main RefWorks window.
May 2, 2012 at
10:49 am, by
Joanne Knox
Read Rob Grace’s interesting post in the Harvard University Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) blog on the important role social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, play in supporting humanitarian action.
You can also sign up for the Program’s forthcoming Web seminar on Social Media as a Tool for Humanitarian Protection which will take place at 2.30 pm our time on Thursday 10 May.
May 2, 2012 at
9:48 am, by
Michael Carragher
Regular users of the key database Construction Information Service will notice major differences when they log in from the end of April 2012. The new CIS search engine provides:‐
- Improved accuracy of the search results returned ‐ saving you time
- Improvement in the speed at which results are returned to you
- Increased options available to find the relevant documents within the original search parameters set – a “search within a search” capability.
- Concurrent searching of the entire content of The Construction Information Service, NBS Building Regulations and IHS Specify‐it.
For more information on the improvements, click on the “We asked – you responded – we listened” link when you enter Construction Information Service. If you need any help navigating your way around the new-look database, please contact your subject librarians. Hopefully, the new search and results interface will make it easier to find the documents you need!
May 1, 2012 at
12:13 pm, by
Michael Carragher
Elsevier have made enhancements to ScienceDirect and Scopus. The Document Download Manager allows users to select and automatically download, re-name and save multiple documents simultaneously. This service allows users to spend less time gathering information and more time for their real work. The “Download Multiple PDFs” function in the results screen of these databases works with all commonly used browsers and browser versions, including Chrome and improved Mac support. As a result, more researchers can now benefit from this highly effective and time saving functionality.
May 1, 2012 at
9:00 am, by
Lewis Childs
Welsh Journals Online provides students, teachers and researchers with free online, searchable, access to a selection of 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century Welsh and Wales-related journals held at The National Library of Wales and partner institutions. Welsh Ballads Online includes about 4,000 digitised ballads, mainly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the Collections of the National Library of Wales and Cardiff University Library. Welsh Voices of the Great War Online: this material has been catalogued, and made available via the People’s Collection Wales. Media and the Memory in Wales: this project aimed to collect and archive oral testimony relating to the age of television in Wales and solicit memories of significant television moments in politics and in culture. These are JISC funded projects.
April 27, 2012 at
9:00 am, by
Lewis Childs
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