Scholarly communication in the 21st Century

A one-day seminar will be held on Friday 4th December in Room 5/050 in Aungier Street.

Increasingly, researchers and their institutions are providing free, online and immediate open access to the results of their work - including full text journal articles, conference papers, reports book chapters, visual images....... The seminar will explore issues surrounding this trend, offering answers to some frequently asked questions.

The keynote speaker is Professor Jane Grimson of Trinity College Dublin and Chair of IRCSET: The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.

The seminar is free of charge and includes lunch but places are limited. Please register here. Registration closes on 27th November. Full programme details are available here.

This event is organised by DIT Library Services - as part of its ongoing efforts to support research activity in the Institute and in the wider academic community in Ireland.

Change of Venue - Web of Knowledge Training April 30th

Guillaume Rivalle - customer trainer from Thomson Reuters will present a training session on Web of Knowledge in Lecture Theatre Room 4079 on April 30th, starting at 9.30am. Training will cover Journal Citation Reports as well as searching across the 3 citation indexes - Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and Science. Training is open to academic and library staff as well as research students and will include specific training for researchers on citation impact factors, how to improve them, the h-index etc.

If you would like to attend, please e-mail:-
anne.ambrose@dit.ie Places are still available.

Web of Knowledge Training April 30th

Guillaume Rivalle - customer trainer from Thomson Reuters will present a training session on Web of Knowledge in Training Room 1, Aungier Street Library on April 30th starting at 9.30am. Training will cover Journal Citation Reports as well as searching across the 3 citation indexes - Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and Science. Training is open to academic and library staff as well as research students and will include specific training for researchers on citation impact factors, how to improve them, the h-index etc.

If you would like to attend, please e-mail:- anne.ambrose@dit.ie as places are limited.