Posted in library guides on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you seen our new-look Subject Guides?
The guides contain information on the key print and electronic resources for the following subject areas: Architecture, Art & Design, Business, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Music, Nursing, Science and Social Care. The guides also contain details of key library services and facilities.
Call to the Information Desk [...]
Posted in library guides on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are pleased to have added guides on Scirus and Fickr to our WIT Library Guides section.
Scirus is a search tool dedicated to scientifc research. Scirus allows researchers to search for journal articles, scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information. A basic or advanced search will allow you to search [...]
Posted in library guides on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stand on the shoulders of giants
Google Scholar, is a freely-accessible search tool designed to search the worldwide web for scholarly or academic literature over a variety of disciplines and sources. Examples of academic literature include; books, journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, theses and abstracts.
Google Scholar can be a very useful resource. A basic or advanced search [...]
Posted in library guides on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
WIT Libraries has just published a Copyright Guidelines Bookmark. As students or staff much of what we do in terms of writing, research, published output etc. is affected by copyright law. The Copyright Guidelines Bookmark presents the key facets of Irish Copyright Law in a concise easily readable format. So if you ever wanted to know [...]
Posted in library guides, tagged information literacy, information skills, OLAS on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year again – essays to write, projects to submit. Are you unsure of where to start, or how to cite or reference? Do you know what plagiarism means or what are the best resources for you? Check out OLAS, WIT Libraries online information skills tutorial for the answers to these questions [...]
Posted in library guides on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Copyright Guidelines section of the WIT Library Website has just been updated. As students or staff, much of what we do in terms of writing, research and published output is affected by copyright laws. So if you want to know more about ‘Fair Dealing‘ or ‘Incidental Inclusion’, this is the section for you. The [...]
Posted in library guides on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The library has a collection of Library Guides to guide you to the various resources and tools available within WIT Libraries.
You can browse subject specific guides, find out the best way to retrieve results from the library databases and WITcat, find out more about Google and Wikipedia, or get tips on the Harvard Referencing style.
