On this day in in 1859

On this day in 1859, Charles Darwin's "On the origin of species" was first published.

Further resources:

Darwin for Beginners by Jonathan Miller

Darwin / edited by Duncan M Porter ; Peter W Graham

The complete works of Darwin online

Article from the British Library on Darwin and Theory of Evolution

The history of evolutionary theory

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The LIBQUAL+ survey will be running from Monday the 9th of November for three weeks, ending Monday the 30th. It is open to all staff and students and only takes 5 minutes to complete.

Semantic Scholar launched - free computer science search engine

A new search engine called Semantic Scholar has been launched by the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence.  It is a free product which currently searches approx. 3 million open-access papers in computer science.

Innovative features include picking out the most important keywords from the text without the author or publishers input.  It extracts figures from documents and presents them in the results list alongside paper references and citing papers.

Semantic Scholar also identifies which of a paper's cited references were influential.

Try it out at Semantic Scholar.

Maths Week 10th-18th October 2015

Maths Week takes place around the country this week 10th-18th October.  This year marks the 10th anniversary of the festival and there are numerous events taking place which involve Institutes of Technology, Universities and many other organisations.

For events geared at third level students click here

Peer review - 3 minute introduction

Here's a quick and easy introduction to the concepts behind, issues around, and types of peer reviewed articles.
 
for more information see: https://www.elsevier.com/reviewers/what-is-peer-review 

Literature Reviews - the library has resources to help

Reviewing the literature is an essential part of a research project.

Below are some recommended library resources that you may find useful when starting.

Books:

Biggam, J. 2018,  Succeeding with your masters dissertation : a step-by-step handbook. Open University Press. Check availability

Booth, A., Papaioannou, D. & Sutton, A. 2011, Systematic approaches to a successful literature review, SAGE - check availability

Hart, C. 2017, Doing a literature review : releasing the research imagination. Sage. - check availability.

Holtom, D. & Fisher, E. 1999, Enjoy writing your science thesis or dissertation: a step by step guide to planning and writing dissertations and theses for undergraduate and graduate science students, Imperial College Press.- check availability

Jesson, J., Matheson, L. & Lacey, F.M. 2011, Doing your literature review: traditional and systematic techniques, SAGE - check availability

Machi, L.A. & McEvoy, B.T. 2009, The literature review: six steps to success, Corwin Press - check availability

Ridley, D. 2012, The literature review : a step-by-step guide for students, Palgrave Macmillan - check availability

Wisker, G. 2009, The undergraduate research handbook, Palgrave Macmillan - check availability

Note: if a book is not available you can place a request on the book by selecting the "Request" link above the book details.


Online resources:

How to write a literature review - ITT Dublin

The Final Chapter : The Undergraduate Research Project Guide - University of Leeds

Literature Reviews - University of Manchester - My Learning Essentials

Infographic: How to Read Scientific Papers from Elsevier

Training Load Monitoring & Athlete Management Conference - Oct. 3rd

The Sport Science and Health programme at ITT in association with the IRFU will be running a half day research event on Training Load Monitoring and Athlete Management Conference on October 3rd.

Dr. Tim Gabbett has 20 years’ experience working as an applied sport scientist with athletes and coaches from a wide range of sports including Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Basketball, Australian Football, and Cricket and has consulted with world leading sports teams and organisations including Manchester United, the New Zealand Rugby Union the Australian Institute of Sport, the National Rugby League and a number of AFL teams. Tim has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and has presented at over 100 national and international conferences. He is committed to performing world-leading research that can be applied in the ‘real world’ to benefit high performance coaches and athletes.

At this unique event, Tim will present his world leading research in team sports and will cover topics such as:

- The relationship between training load and injury

- Injury prediction models

- Return to train, play and “compete” plans

- The protective effect of training

This half-day conference is ideal for sports coaches, S&C coaches, sport scientists and medical staff members who are looking to enhance their understanding of athlete training load monitoring and management.

The course is priced at €75 and can be booked online HERE. 

The course can also be booked by contacting Niamh Nash on 01-6473835 or niamh.nash@irfu.ie.