Welcome Science students and staff - September 2015

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.

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.

RSC trial of Analytical Chemistry Collection until 31st December 2015

The Royal Society of Chemistry Analytical Science Collection consists of four journals and one literature alerting service.

A trial of these journals runs until 31 December 2015.

To access please click on the name of the journal from the list below or go to Databases A-Z on the library website.

You will need to log in using your library PIN.

Analyst - analytical and bioanalytical research, reporting fundamental discoveries and inventions and their applications. Covers research from analytical chemistry; bioanalytical science; biomedical science; biotechnology; detection science; pharmacy; physics; materials science; and engineering.

Analytical Abstracts - Analytical content from over 100 journals from 1980 to latest update. Updated weekly.

Analytical Methods - Research detailing early applied demonstrations of new analytical methods. Includes pharmaceutical and applied industrial analysis; forensic analysis; environmental and food analysis.

Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts - links the chemical, physical and materials sciences relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies and environmental science.
Topics include solar energy conversion and photovoltaics; fuel cells; hydrogen storage and (bio) hydrogen production; materials for energy systems; carbon capture and storage, and more...

Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry - fundamentals in elemental analysis and isotope ratio determinations within all fields of application.

For researchers and authors - new Web of Science update to include ORCID & ResearcherID integration

A new update to Web of Science was released on Sunday July 26, 2015.

In this release, Web of Science incorporates author identifiers for researchers who established an ORCID but not a ResearcherID. Inclusion of ORCIDs from these authors adds an estimated 90,000 unique ORCIDs to Web of Science across more than 1.5 million records. Furthermore, new ORCID information will be updated in Web of Science every month via data feed from ORCID. This delivers improved workflow support for authors, research managers, and publishers who are increasingly making use of ORCID.

For more information on library supports for researchers and authors and our institutional repository Arrow,  please click here.

Promoting women in science - Soapbox Science Ireland 2015 - Belfast

Soapbox Science is a novel public outreach platform for promoting women scientists and the science they do. Our events transform public areas into an arena for public learning and scientific debate; they follow the format of London Hyde Park’s Speaker’s Corner, which is historically an arena for public debate.


Dublin provided the venue in 2014.  This year it comes to Belfast.  Volunteer call now open.

For more information go to Soapbox Science.

Calling all makers, educators, technologists etc. - DublinMaker open call is now live!

Dublin Maker will be held on July 25th, 2015 on the grounds of Trinity College Dublin. It is a free to attend, family friendly and community driven event.

Dublin Maker takes the form of a “show and tell” experience where inventors/makers sourced through an open call, will have an opportunity to showcase their creations at individual booths in a carnival atmosphere. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning.

For more information about Dublin Maker click here

Submit an entry to the event - The Open Call for makers opens on March 30th and closes May 25th 2015

The Undergraduate Awards 2015 - deadline 29th May

The 2015 Programme is now open for registration and submissions. 

The deadline for The Undergraduate Awards programme this year, is 29th May 2015.

The Undergraduate Awards programme is open to all penultimate and final year undergraduate students in a degree course, as well as 2014 graduates, from all disciplines.


Who, What & How? 

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The Prize

Irish Programming Competition 2015 - Registration deadline 16th March 2015

UCC ACM Student Chapter

Irish Collegiate Programming Competition 2015

Registration is now open, register your team before the deadline of March 16th

The UCC ACM Student Chapter will hose the sixth annual Irish Collegiate Programming Competition (IrlCPC) this year on Saturday the 28th of March 2015.

The event is part of The Year of George Boole, a celebration of the life and work of George Boole who was born in 1815 and worked at the University College of Cork. Each team of competitors will be given a problem set that tests their problem solving, numeracy and computer programming skills.

This competition is not for novice programmers but those who have a passion for programming. We are grateful that this year’s prizes will be made possible through the sponsorship of Google.

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