Last updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2011

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News

This section will bring you news, enhancements and technical announcements, to help you make the most out of our online services.

Trials

A list of all the items on trial GMIT Library. Some may require a username and password - please contact the Library for same. If you find any particularly useful please let us know in the Library and we will look into obtaining a subscription.

Please note that Trials are only available on campus.


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EBSCO's Academic Search & Business Source Complete

The library is pleased to announce access to EBSCO's Academic Search Complete & Business Source Complete following the recent announcement that funding is continuing for the IOT's through the IReL initiative. We previously had access to the premier versions of these resources, but have been upgraded to both Complete versions of Academic Search & Business Source for 2012.

Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi disciplinary full text database. Featuring thousands of full text journals, this scholarly collection offers unmatched coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multi cultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields.

Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business databases, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content covering all disciplines of business. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, trade publications and top management journals dating back as far as 1886 are included.

For more information see:

http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-complete
http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/business-source-complete

To access these resources go http://library.gmit.ie/screens/databases.html and choose an individual resource; or use the library's search engine Summon to search these resources and more resources from one search box.

 

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Art Abstracts Now Available via EBSCOhost

Following the launch of Art Abstracts now being made available on EBSCOhost, this will now run in parallel to our existing Wilson Web access until the end of February 2012. From March 2012 Art Abstracts will only be available via EBSCOhost.

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Ebrary adds over 16,000 e-books to Collection

Ebrary recently added over 16,000 multidisciplinary e-books from Ashgate Publishing Group, Brill Academic Publishers, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Michigan Press, and other leading publishers.

Below is a sample listing of newly added titles. To open a document, click on the jacket.

Accidental Archaea: Molecular and Cellular Biology,
by Ricardo Cavicchioli
(ASM Press, 2007)
Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well,
by Lynne A. Isbell
(Harvard University Press, 2009)
Odes of Horace,
by Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
Oxford Bible Atlas,
by Adrian Curtis
(Oxford University Press, 2007)
Alain L. Locke: Biography of a Philosopher,
by Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth
(University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States,
by Trita Parsi
(Yale University Press, 2007)

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Library Anywhere
You can access GMIT Library via your iphone, android or any 3G/ Internet phone. Go to this link http://www.libanywhere.com/m/323 to access GMIT Library directly, it allows you to search our catalogue, access your account online and email the library. This link will detect which device you're using and send you to the right version of Library Anywhere (there are three versions currently, iPhone, Android, and a Universal version that works on any mobile device, including Blackberry).

Enjoy, and please let us know what you think.

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