YLS Symposium - Cell to Cell Communication, 12th November 2014

This Young Life Scientists’ Symposium (YLS) is a one day scientific conference organised by PhD students and post-docs for their peers. The aim of YLS 2014 is to promote networking and professional development through social events and careers sessions, as well as scientific talks and poster sessions.

YLS 2014 is being held in conjunction with the Irish Area Section of the Biochemical Society Annual meeting. The focus of YLS 2014 is on cell to cell communication as well as talks on grant writing and non-academic careers.

Registration to YLS 2014 is free and is open until 31st October.

For more information

Pharmaceutical Science - resources at your library

Pharmaceutical Science students have access to many resources through the library website.

Remember to set up your library PIN for access to these resources on and off campus 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Library book search - search the library catalogue for recommended books or other books on your subject area.

Databases A-Z - ScienceDirect, Academic Search Complete, ACS online, WOS and Academic onefile are just some of the databases available for searching high quality documents.

United States Pharmacopeia online - please note that only one user can access USP at any one time so please log out when you are finished.















Pharmaceutical research at Ciba 1914

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Subject links and support - contact your subject librarian for help with using library resources to find information.

Pharmaceutical Science subject internet gateway provides quick links to useful websites and professional organisations in your field of research e.g. FDA orange book, Eudralex, PDA and ISPE.

Literature Reviews - check out the library blog post

Library tutorials - Library ITT Dublin has developed a number of useful tutorials such as:

• Referencing your sources
• Plagiarism
• Critical thinking

Make some time to complete these tutorials before starting your project.

Related blog posts - Using Statistics, James Reilly

Free trial - Access to Royal Society of Chemistry until 15th December 2014

Free access to RSC journal, database and magazine content until 15th December 2014.

Click here to access the trial (see below for content).  You will need your library PIN to login.

RSC Gold with archives

Journals Analyst Analytical Methods Biomaterials Science** Catalysis Science & Technology  Chemical Communications Chemical Science  Chemical Society Reviews CrystEngComm Dalton Transactions Energy & Environmental Science Environmental Science: Nano*** Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts Faraday Discussions Food & Function Green Chemistry Integrative Biology Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS ) Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C Lab on a Chip Materials Horizons*** MedChemComm Metallomics Molecular BioSystems Nanoscale Natural Product Reports New Journal of Chemistry Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry  Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP)  Polymer Chemistry RSC Advances  Soft Matter Toxicology Research Backfile RSC Journals Archive 1841-2007 lease  Databases Analytical Abstracts  Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions  Chemical Hazards in Industry  Laboratory Hazards Bulletin  Methods in Organic Synthesis  Natural Product Updates  eBook Series Issues in Environmental Science & Technology  Magazines Chemistry World  Education in Chemistry  Reports Backfile Annual Reports Sections A, B and C (1967-2013)

Welcome to Science and Computing student - September 2014

Welcome to all new and returning students to ITT Dublin.

For new students, I am the science and computing subject librarian.  Over the next few weeks you will be introduced to the library and all the resources that are available to you to successfully work through your assignments and exams.

Library ITT Dublin

Keep up to date with your Library news:

Subscribe to library updates through facebook, twitter and library blogs such as the Library and Science & Computing blogs .  These will keep you up to date about current trials, new journals of interest etc.
Use your library subject supports such as the Science & Computing subject portal.

Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Congress 2014, 18th-19th Sept.

Culturing of Crystal, Chemical and Biochemical Solutions

The Institute of Chemistry Congress 2014 will mark the International Year of Crystallography 2014. 

The Theme for the event is "Culturing of Crystal, Chemical and Biochemical Solutions".

The programme is available at the website listed below and includes a talk by Fintan Kelleher, researcher and lecturer at ITT Dublin.

Register at : http://www.iycr2014.org/events/seminars/institute-of-chemistry-congress-2014

Keeping up to date - current awareness

An important part of the research process is finding ways to keep up to date with the most recently published information and developments.

There are many alerting and current awareness services available. Most involve registering or setting up a profile but this is usually free.

Journals:

The JournalTOCs - Tables of Contents service allows you to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material by enabling you to browse, view, save, and search across thousands of journal tables of contents from hundreds of publishers.

Free registration allows you to create a customised list of your most important and favourite journals, and includes export options such as email alerts, RSS feeds, formats for bibliographic managers. Note: there is a limit of 30 journal titles that can be followed.

Journal TOCs

You could also register for individual journal alerts from your library databases such as American Chemical Society or Science Direct as well as through publisher websites such as Springer.

American Chemical Society

You can set up a search query with google alerts to keep you up to date with new content relating to that topic on the web.  These alerts can be delivered daily by e-mail.

Google Alerts

Mobile apps:

Browzine is a mobile app which brings recent issues of scholarly journals to your mobile device.

Flipboard and Google currents provide a single place to collect and share your favourite sites.

Your Library:

Subscribe to your library updates through facebook, twitter and library blogs such as the Library, Science & Computing or Engineering blogs .  These will keep you up to date about current trials, new journals of interest etc.

Use your library subject supports such as the Science & Computing subject portal.

Patents & Standards:

When you subscribe to Patentalert.com you will receive updates (United States Patent Office) by e-mail.

You can subscribe to RSS feeds from the European Patent Office (copy the RSS URL to an RSS reader such as Netvibes below)

RSS readers:

With Netvibes you can create your own dashboard and customise it with social media, favorite websites and blogs, news, weather, email and more — all in one place.

The netvibes dashboard below has been customised to gather feeds and websites of interest relating to patents and standards.

Netvibes - an example of an RSS reader

Feedly will also gather your favourite sites in one place.

Feedly

Books:

You can follow your favourite publisher on twitter or facebook or register for alert newsletters such as Springer

Google alerts can be refined to just alerting about books.

Newspapers:

You can keep up to date with newspapers such as Irish Times on Twitter and Facebook and Google alerts.

Funding opportunities:

You can subscribe to Science Foundation Ireland or the Irish Research Council through a number of different social media in order to keep up to date with funding calls etc.

Similarly European Research Council and CORDIS updates can be followed through RSS feeds, twitter and facebook.

Subcribe to updates from websites such as SFI

Conferences:

If you subscribe to Conference Alerts you will receive e-mail alerts of upcoming events matching your interests.
MyScienceWork is a social networking site but you can also search for scientific events and news according to your discipline.

Other related blog topics - keep track of your citations 
Other related blog topics - Literature Reviews

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