Datasets are becoming an integral part of the scholarly publication process. This is being promoted by Funders who want to maximise the potential of their investment but also by the European Commission who want to see datasets visible and capable of being shared. The objective is to ensure that no one is re-inventing the wheel and that datasets can find new applications beyond the original vision of the initial researchers.
Datasets, both internally within DIT and externally, are now as important an output as the publications and are equally capable of being cited. High quality datasets require a data management plan and more information on that is available here.
There is now a DATA REPOSITORY on Arrow where datasets can be uploaded in the normal way. It is accepted that not all datasets can be open access and sharable but even when not available, they should be at least findable. Therefore, information about the dataset can be uploaded as long as the dataset owner agrees that they can be contacted about the material.
This is a pilot programme and your participation would be greatly appreciated.
Bealtaineis the national arts festival celebrating creativity as we age.
Each year, Age & Opportunity invites local authorities, arts centres, libraries, Active Retirement groups, care settings, community groups and clubs, associations from every part of the country to run Bealtaine events that celebrate creativity in older age.
The Design Library has the world's largest and best organised collections of documentary fabrics, original paintings, wallpapers, embroideries and yarn dyes. It's US collection is vast, held across a 12,000 square foot loft in a converted fabric mill in New York’s Hudson Valley, where over 7 million examples of textiles, wallpapers, pattern books and embroideries are stored. In London, its building is more modest, situated just off Oxford Street, but its collection is still eye-popping, including samples of designs stretching back to the 18th century and from all over the world.
The Design Library is not open to the public but is used extensively by fashion designers and is the professional source for surface design, clients are fashion, home, packaging and paper industries.
Check out their website and take a tour below http://www.design-library.com
Reserve your copy of Inside the Design Library by Peter Koepke in Grangegorman Library.
Hope you didn't have too scary a weekend! Back to normal here in the library at Grangegorman.
Our opening hours are: 9:30 - 9:30 Monday to Thursday, 9:30 - 5:15 on Friday, and Saturdays from 10am - 5pm.
Why not drop in and catch up on that study you've meaning to do?
Or use one of our Group Study Rooms to work on a project together?
Or even browse through our books and journals and find that vital bit of information you've been missing...
The library staff are always here to help, so call into the library- you never know what you might find!
