Plagiarism Guidence for Students-NUI Maynooth Calendar

http://www.nuim.ie/calendar/rules/documents/plagiarism.pdf

Avoid Plagiarism by completing the Online Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial in the Library Area of Moodle at
https://moodle.nuim.ie/2011/

The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A special online edition of the American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Education (JCE) features a collection of mysteries based on the famous Sherlock Holmes detective series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but with a chemistry twist. Titled The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the series features Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson, as they use chemistry to solve a wide range of mysteries. The journal's first virtual issue coincides with the observance in 2011 of the International Year of Chemistry.

MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. For example:

Biological Engineering Design: This course illustrates how knowledge and principles of biology, biochemistry, and engineering are integrated to create new products for societal benefit. It uses a case study format to examine recently developed products of pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries: how a product evolves from initial idea, through patents, testing, evaluation, production, and marketing. Emphasizes scientific and engineering principles; the responsibility scientists, engineers, and business executives have for the consequences of their technology; and instruction and practice in written and oral communication. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biological-engineering/20-380j-biological-engineering-design-spring-2010/

Implicit Association Test (IAT)

It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology.

This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

An Introductory Guide to Refereeing

The Institute of Physics have produced a booklet guiding those new to the refereeing process entitled "Introduction to Refereeing ". Contents include: An introduction to the peer review process, how to write a referee report, and ethical issues. Its available at http://images.iop.org/referees/

Scientific Reports — a new era in publishing

Online and open access, Scientific Reports is a brand new primary research publication from the publishers of Nature, covering all areas of the natural sciences — biology, chemistry, physics and earth sciences.http://www.nature.com/srep/marketing/index.html

JURN Directory

http://www.jurn.org/directory/

3,000 links to selected arts & humanities ejournals.  Journals listed are either free (open access), or offer significant free content.

Microsoft Academic Search

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
Microsoft Academic Search is a free search engine for academic papers and resources principally in the field of computer science, developed by Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing. The database consists of the bibliographic information (metadata) for academic papers published in journals, conferences proceedings and the citations between them. It covers more than 7 million publications and 5.8 million authors as of October 2010, with weekly update since November 2009.

Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications

This new report investigates the drivers, costs and benefits of potential ways to increase access to scholarly journals. It identifies five different routes for achieving that end over the next five years, and compares and evaluates the benefits as well as the costs and risks for the UK.http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/heading-open-road-costs-and-benefits-transitions-s

Oxford Reference Online Premium-May update

This update further extends Oxford Reference Online's wide ranging academic content, with extensive new titles on marketing, with A Dictionary of Marketing, and media and communications studies, with A Dictionary of Media and Communications. In addition, literature content has been enhanced with Oxford titles dedicated to Charles Dickens, with The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens, and the Brontës, with The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Look out for more author Companions later in the year! In addition to the new titles, there are also new editions of The Oxford Companion to Music (an online-only edition commissioned especially for Oxford Reference Online), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and A Dictionary of Saints. http://www.oxfordreference.com/pages/whatsnew_may2011

EBSCO host Mobile and New iPhone App

EBSCOhost Mobile is an excellent way to make the most of your online resources from EBSCO (Business Source Premier, Academic Search Complete, Psyc Info. etc.) accessible from the library at http://library.nuim.ie/database/a-z

EBSCO's new app is free, and offers the convenience and rich functionality that enables users to:

• Choose which databases to search
• Limit results to full text or peer reviewed
• Sort by relevance or date
• Retrieve full text results in HTML and/or PDF formats
• Save results for offline access at a later date
• Email results to self or others
• View cover flow display of results

To get started, simply click on the EBSCOhost iPhone/iPod Touch Application link at the bottom of the EBSCOhost screen and follow the instructions.

Library of Congress launches ‘National Jukebox’

http://www.library.ie/2011/05/11/library-of-congress-launches-national-jukebox/

The Library of Congress in the USA has launched a ‘National Jukebox‘:

Developed … with assets provided by Sony Music Entertainment, the National Jukebox offers free online access to a vast selection of music and spoken-word recordings produced in the U.S. between the years 1901 and 1925.

The collection includes lots of recordings of Irish interest, not least many by Count John McCormack. Here he is singing Thomas Moore’s Believe me if all those endearing young charms.

Latest Release of Literature Online from ProQuest

http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/infoCentre/whatsnew.jsp
Literature Online, is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 330 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Graduate Information Literacy Module

http://www.informationliteracy.ie/

This course was funded under the Higher Education Authorities (HEA) Strategic Innovation Funding (SIF) Programe. The content was developed by Subject Librarians in the participating Universities: NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork.

On May 7, 2011 Elsevier launched several highly anticipated enhancements to its SciVerse platform with the aim to make SciVerse faster.

http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/releases

Zinc as a cure for the Common Cold ? Find out more from the Cochrane Library via the Wiley Online Library

http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/index.html
 Zinc administered within 24 hours of onset of symptoms reduces the duration and severity of the common cold in healthy people....

New IEEE Standards Dictionary Online:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp

The IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.

IEEE Xplore provides Web access to almost 3-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.

The content in IEEE Xplore comprises 151 journals, over 900 conference proceedings, more than 3,400 technical standards, over 400 ebooks and 200 educational courses. Approximately 25,000 new documents are added to IEEE Xplore each month.

Web of Knowledge Live Training May 2011

http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/livetraining/

iPhone Application

iPhone Application

EBSCO’s databases (which inc: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Psyc INFO, Psyc Articles) now offer a free app to ensure that iPhone and iPod Touch users get the most from searching premium EBSCOhost database content, provided courtesy of your  library.
EBSCO’s new app is free, with access to download instructions available from the bottom of EBSCOhost screens. The convenience and rich functionality of the app enables users to:

• Choose which databases to search
• Limit results to full text or peer reviewed
• Search a library’s catalog
• Sort by relevance or date
• Retrieve full text results in HTML and/or PDF formats
• Save results for offline access at a later date
• Email results to self or others
• Automatically save the 25 most recent searches
• Cover flow display of results

Click the link at the bottom of anyEBSCOhost page to email yourself the key to the app and get started.