Christmas Schedule

Return your overdue books and pay no fines!

Merry Christmas!

Normal Term Hours

Just a reminder that Grangegorman Library is Open

normal term hours through Friday December 20.

We are open this week and next:

Monday - Thursday: 9:30am - 9:30pm;

Friday: 9:30am - 5:15pm;

Saturday (Dec. 14): 10am - 5pm.

 

Sage Research Methods - Trial until 31st December 2019

Sage Research Methods - Trial until 31st December 2019

SAGE Research Methods supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. SAGE Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher.

SAGE Research Methods

SAGE Research Methods Cases & Cases-2

SAGE Research Methods Video

SAGE Research Methods Video: Practical Research And Academic Skills

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

The Disability Awareness Collection is a library collection of resources developed to support research in the area of disabilities.

It will be launched in conjucntion with the TU Dublin Inclusive Language Guide on:

Tuesday 3rd of December at

St. Laurence's Church, Grangegorman

between 3.30pm and 4.30pm.

 



Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios \ Free tours

Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios 

The National Gallery of Ireland offer free tours of The Bauhaus 100 exhibition to 

groups of third-level students. The exhibition is now ongoing 

until December 1, 2019. 

If a group of design students were interested, they should check out the 

National Gallery website to see about booking:  

https://www.nationalgallery.ie/what-we-do/education-department/third-level-programmes

Free trial of content from CNKI

TU Dublin now has access both on and off campus to a free trial of content from CNKI who provide English language versions of Chinese journals, as well as other content:

China Academic Journals Full-text Database is the largest academic journal full-text database in the world, updated continuously. It collects over 7000 academic journals published in China, including nearly 2700 titles of core journals and journals collected by significant evaluation databases. The content covers natural science, engineering and technology, agriculture, philosophy, medicine, social science and so on. The total article amount is more than 54 million.

 

Also included in the trial is:

China Data Insights

Academic Focus

Journals Translations Project

 http://oversea.cnki.net/Marketing/OnlineActivities/UKIreland/index.html 

 

The trial will run until December 28th. 

Free trial of 2 New York Times databases

TU Dublin users now have access to the following free trial until January 16th :

nytimes.com (on-campus only) gives access to today's newspaper. Click on the magnifying glass at the top left of the screen to enter a different date or range of dates if you want to search back issues of the newspaper (post 1980).

nytimesineducation.com (on-campus only) gives access to the InEducation tool for browsing and searching globally relevant content across more than 15 sections, including business and the arts.

October Bank Holiday Weekend

Grangegorman Library will be Closed

Saturday, October 26 - Monday, October 28

due to the October bank holiday weekend.

The Library will reopen for normal term hours on

Tuesday, October 29.

Have a great weekend.

Cambridge Journals Digital Archive

TU Dublin Libraries are pleased to offer perpetual access to the Cambridge University Press journals digital archive, as part of IReL: the Irish Research e-Library. The collection provides full access to more than 450 journals, including 1.2 million articles, from their first issues (volume 1, issue 1) up to the date the journals were first published online.

To access this resource, select it from the list on the A-Z Database page.

Evening Opening Begins

Starting Monday, September 16, 2019,

Grangegorman Library will be open evenings Monday - Thursday.

In term we are open 9:30 - 9:30 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

 

Fridays remain 9:30 - 5:15.

August Bank Holiday

Grangegorman Library will be closed Monday, August 5, 2019 due to the bank holiday.

Normal summer hours (Monday - Friday: 9:30 - 17:15) resume August 6th.

Emerald Insight New Digital Platform

Emerald Insight are launching their new digital platform on Thursday July 4th 2019. 

Emerald have updated their platform, "...to create a much better experience for the showcasing, broad dissemination and visibility of social science research for authors, readers, students, researchers and librarians. We have built the platform in partnership with our customers and users, and your needs are at the heart of the project."

The Emerald team have put together an FAQ document in relation to the update.

You can access the Emerald database via the Databases A-Z page or the Business Subject Guide

If you have any issues accessing or using the new platform please get in touch with the Library directly 01 402 4108 / grg.library@dit.ie.

(by Sarah-Anne Kennedy) 

Later Opening on June 21, 2019

Stocktake Complete! We're open for business.

Stocktake is done! 32,424 books were taken off our shelves, scanned, sorted and re-shelved by Grangegorman Librarystaff over the last 2 weeks.
Now that all our books are neat and organised, come and visit us.
We're open Mon-Fri. 9:15-17:15 in the summer.

Summer Opening Hours

One-Week Fine Amnesty

It's the end of the term. 

Return anything you may have outstanding on your account

between May 20th and 24th,

and finish the year with a clean slate.

More IReL resouces now available

The following new online resources are now available both on and off-campus via the new Library Services databases A-Z page


http://www.dit.ie/library/search/databases/


     
Wiley Journals Database
http://tudublin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Introduced in 1997, international resource for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly content. In June 2008, Wiley InterScience incorporated the online content formerly hosted on Blackwell Synergy to provide access to over 3 million articles across 1500 journals.

            

Screen Studies Collection
https://search.proquest.com/screenstudies/arts/fromDatabasesLayer?accountid=10594 
Subject Area(s):‎ Literature & Language , History , The Arts:
AFI Catalog (1893 - current) 
- Index of films produced in America or by American production companies
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database (1972 - current) 
- Film and media studies, theory and history – journal articles, books, etc.
Film Index International  (1900 - current) 
- Index of international films created by the British Film Institute.  

Literature Online (LION) Core Collection

https://search.proquest.com/lion1/literature/fromDatabasesLayer?accountid=10594      

Literature Online runs from the 8th Century to the 21st Century and includes 340,000 works of poetry, 6,000 works of Drama, 2,250 works of prose as well as over 300 journals. Literature Online is unique in bringing primary works, reference materials, and literary criticism together - packaging them in an intuitive research environment that allows users to find quickly the information they need and make exciting new discoveries. No other resource provides such comprehensive support for the study of English literature - facilitating the research journey with the texts users need, and the contextual resources to understand them.

Philosopher’s Index
https://search.proquest.com/philosophersindex/socialsciences?accountid=10594
The Philosopher’s Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews. The Philosopher’s Index monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries and is updated quarterly.
         

Latest batch of electronic resources now live

The following new online resources are now available both on and off-campus via the new Library Services databases A-Z page


http://www.dit.ie/library/search/databases/

AMS E-Journals

http://tudublin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.ams.org/journals/


The subscription covers four journals published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS): Journal of the AMS; Mathematics of Computing; Proceedings of the AMS; and Transactions of the AMS.

Contains: Full text

Bibliography of British and Irish History

http://tudublin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://apps.brepolis.net

Coverage: Previously known as the Royal Historical Society Bibliography. An authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day.

Contains: Full text

Electrochemical Society - ECSPUBS

http://tudublin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ecst.ecsdl.org/

Coverage: 7 Journals in the collection Electrochemistry Letters, Solid State Science and Tech., Meeting Abstracts, Solid State letters, Transactions, Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
Since 1902 An international organisation with  8,000 scientist and 100 laboratory corporate members. Concerned with electrochemical and solid state technology.

Contains: Full text

International Medieval Bibliography

http://tudublin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://apps.brepolis.net

Coverage: Bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c.400-1500) providing a comprehensive and current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes worldwide.

Contains: Abstracts

Journal of Biological Chemistry

http://tudublin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.jbc.org


Coverage: American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Studying the molecular and cellular basis of biological processes. Biological chemistry, chemical biology, and biochemistry.

Allied disciplines such as biophysics, systems biology, RNA biology, immunology, microbiology, neurobiology, epigenetics.

Contains: Full text

Radiology

http://tudublin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://pubs.rsna.org/journal/radiology


Coverage: Since 1923, every month, 300 pages of peer-reviewed, timely clinical research. Plus reviews, editorials and commentaries, as well as experimental studies.

Contains: Full text

New Ways of Seeing

A new radio programme may be of interest to our design students:
A 4-part radio series authored by journalist and artist James Bridle examining how technology is changing visual culture starts tomorrow (April 17, 2019) on BBC Radio 4.
The Guardian today published an article by Bridle, who describes the ideas behind the series called "New Ways of Seeing", that is interesting in and of itself for anyone curious about the effects of digitisation on how we interact with the world.

In the series, the ideas of John Berger, author of several books already in TU Dublin's Grangegorman Library, such as "Ways of Seeing", will be discussed in terms of the modern digital world.

Libraries and Interior Design

The latest issue of FRAME has arrived. And it has a great section on designing a modern library. Come visit us in Grangegorman to see the journal in person with all the illustrations and ideas it contains. Or check it out via our online Journals available on TU Dublin Library's website.

 

New Books

The library at TU Dublin Grangegorman has many new books in stock. Check out our catalogue to see what's the latest.
Or click the links below for books on specific subjects:
Photography books.
Criminology books.
Art & Design books.
Social science books.

Grangegorman Library Easter opening hours

Even more Library online resources now live

The following databases/journal collections are now available both on and off-campus via the Databases A-Z

AACR Journals Collection The American Association for Cancer Research is the oldest and largest scientific organization in the world focused on every aspect of high-quality, innovative cancer research. Its reputation for scientific breadth and excellence attract the premier researchers in the field of cancer research. There are 8 titles in the collection: Cancer Discovery; Cancer Research; Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention; Cancer Prevention Research; Molecular Cancer Therapeutics; Molecular Cancer Research; Cancer Immunology Research; and Clinical Cancer Research.

Journal of Cell Biology
The Journal of Cell Biology from the Rockfeller University Press is a broad journal that publishes original findings on all aspects of cell biology. It publishes papers reporting new cellular or molecular advances in any areas of basic cell biology as well as papers that describe applied cell biology in a variety of systems including, but not limited to, immunology, neurobiology, metabolism, virology, developmental biology, and plant biology.

Journal of Experimental Medicine
Since its inception in 1896, the goal of Journal of Experimental Medicine from the Rockfeller University Press has been to publish outstanding and enduring studies in medical biology. The publisher’s emphasis is on offering a distinguished venue for publication of studies that integrate disciplines within the field of pathogenesis.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an online resource for researching, teaching and studying in the philosophy area and related disciplines.

OFFSET conference/festival

The fourth annual OFFSET fringe festival starts this Friday, March 29. Their website describe the event as "the perfect opportunity for creatives to thrive: to learn from each other, to share their ideas, to inspire and be inspired by their peers."
There will be Workshops, Masterclasses, Exhibitions, Sketchcrawl through the city, Panel Discussions, Music, Delegate Party and a Doodle Jam.
There are opportunities to compete for title of Future Illustrator, 2019; to check out the Spectrum Exhibition of poster designs by 20 Irish designers and artists; to take part in a Typeface & Lettering Design workshop, to listen to speakers from Ireland and around the world, and much more. 
Check out the OFFSET website for more information on all that's happening at this Design Festival. 

New Library Online Resources now live

As was mentioned in our post of 25th of Feb, Library Services recently announced a significant expansion to our online resources collection for 2019 through the IReL consortium.

The following databases/journal collections are now available both on and off-campus via the Databases A-Z

American Society for Microbiology
The American Society for Microbiology is the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world. Membership has grown from 59 scientists in 1899 to more than 43,000 members today, with more than one third located outside the United States. The members represent 26 disciplines of microbiological specialization plus a division for microbiology educators. There are 15 titles in the package.

British Medical Journal Collection
The British Medical Association publishes a wide range of medical journals (including the BMJ) covering a broad selection of medical areas. There are almost 30 titles in the package.

Cambridge Journals Online
Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) is the e-publishing service for over 380 journals published by Cambridge University Press in the areas of computer science, genetics, humanities, law, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, politics, psychology, science, technology.

JSTOR
JSTOR provides a comprehensive digital archive of important scholarly journals. Institutions gain access to the archive and support its preservation by participating in collections. JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections that include complete runs of journals as well as select monographs, transactions, and conference proceedings. IReL currently has access to the following two collections: JSTOR Arts and Sciences I to VII, and JSTOR Life Sciences Collection. Subject coverage includes: architecture, arts, business, economics, film, history of art, life sciences, science, social science.

New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

ASME Digital Collections Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is the premier professional membership organization for more than 127,000 mechanical engineers and associated members worldwide. ASME also conducts one of the world’s largest technical publishing operations in the world, offering thousands of titles including some of the profession’s most prestigious journals, conference proceedings, and ASME Press books. The ASME Digital Collection package includes almost 30 full‐text journal titles.

GeoRef
The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive AGI database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 80,000 references a year. The database contains over 3.4 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

GeoScienceWorld
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the earth sciences, which is built on a core database of peer‐reviewed journals and is integrated with the GeoRef abstract and index service. The organization gives global researchers a single point of access to 45 full‐text scholarly journals plus specialized searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted elsewhere on the Web.

Women Writers Project
The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long‐term research project devoted to early modern women’s writing and electronic text encoding. They support research on women’s writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship. WRO is a full collection of Women Writers Project texts currently available online, covering a period from 1400 to 1850. This collection includes the texts, all of which can be browsed, searched, and analysed using tools which provide access to the full SGML encoding.

World Higher Education Database

Global reference for higher education systems, degrees and institutions.

St. Patrick's weekend opening hours at Grangegorman Library

This Sunday 17th March is the national holiday of St. Patrick's Day.

As a result the library will be closed on Saturday 16th of March and Monday 18th March.

Normal opening hours will be in place for the rest of the week.

Thurday night late opening to return to Grangegorman Library

The library in Grangegorman are delighted to announce that we have resumed full term time opening hours as of today. That is to say that we will be opening on Thursday nights up until 9.30 pm again.

Our term time hours now are as follows:

Monday-Thursday: 9.30 am - 9.30 pm

Friday: 9.30 am - 5.15 pm

Saturday: 10.00 am - 5.00 pm*

 

*see here for Saturday opening hours

 

Spread the word!

New Online Library Resources for 2019

TU Dublin - City Campus became members of the IReL consortium in 2018.

IReL is a nationally funded online research library providing leading STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) and HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) collections to members institutions.

As a result of membership, we will gain access to almost 50 additional online resources in 2019. These include individual e-journal titles, e-journal packages, and databases, covering a wide range of subject areas

The resources will go live over the next few weeks.

Scheduled IT maintenance this weekend in Grangegorman

A quick reminder that there will be a scheduled IT maintenance this weekend in Grangegorman.

The library will open for study on Saturday but there will be no access to PCs, WIFI/Eduroam or Datapac printing services.

Borrowing, returning and group study rooms will be available

Feedback from Artfilms database trial

We previously informed readers about our trial of the database Artfilms which ran until 31st December 2018.

Now that our trial for Artfilms has finished we are looking for feeback from our users.

Click here to fill out a short questionaire regarding the database.

Grangegorman Library opening at 1.30pm on Thursday 24th of January

Due to a staff seminar the library will not be open until 1.30pm on Thursday the 24th of January.

The library will close at the usual time of 5:15pm.

Term time Saturday Opening resumes at Grangegorman Library

The library at Grangegorman has resumed regular Saturday opening hours.

The library will open at 10 am on Saturday mornings and will remain open until 5pm.

These hours will be in place for the rest of the academic year, bar a couple of Saturdays around bank holiday weekends.

Full details of the Saturday opening schedule is available here