Science Research Resources

Access from Home and FAQs

  • To access the eJournals, eBooks and Databases and well as your library account from outside the DIT network you need a current student number and Library PIN. See the Access from Home link for more information.
  • Exam papers: access point and information for online papers
  • Programme documents access point.
  • Final Year Projects from previous years are kept at the library desk. Click here for your course listing.
  • See also the specific Subject Links pages for the Sciences, including Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Maths. Nutrition, Physics and Optometry. Subject resources appropriate for undergraduate and postgraduate level are listed here.

eJournals

eBooks

  • Browse via the eBook link or carry out a specific search on the Library Catalogue. Most of the Science titles are located in MyiLibrary, Knovel, NetLibrary or NCBI.

Internet Links

 

ACS ChemWorld/ChemSoc Internet Detective SCIRUS
Arxiv Eprints NIST Codata: Physical & Chemical Constants Merck Index SciCentral
Citeseer Infomine PLOS UK PubMed

 Updates

Search Engines

Summon

What does Summon search? Summon is a search engine that provides relevance ranked results from DIT Library's online collections in a one single search. It includes records and citations from the DIT Library's databases, eJournals eBooks and theses collections.

Summon and Google Scholar search different bodies of scholarly content. There is overlap, but there is content in Summon not in Google Scholar, and vice-versa. Results in Summon are reflective of DIT Library's collections — as a DIT Library patron, you have access to most full-text you can find in Summon.

Google Scholar

Some features unique to Google Scholar:

  • "Cited by” information e.g. “Cited by 43 publications"
  • Google Books content
  • Issues accessing full-text not subscribed to by DIT Library. See Inter Library Loans for more information.
  • Set your Google Scholar Preferences to Dublin Institute of Technology Find @DIT to link to DIT subscribed full-text.

Science Search Engines

Institutional Repositories

  • DIT's IR is Arrow and contains the full text of DIT's research theses and publications.
  • Registry of Open Access Repositories on a global level is available at ROAR
  • RIAN The Irish Research Portal includes research output from the seven Irish universites and DIT
  • Research Scope is a gateway to open access research in Ireland including TARA,  LENUS and the RCSI
  • DART-Europe E-Thesis Portal gives access to nearly 160,000 full-text research theses from 276 Universities sourced from 17 European countries

Study Skills

A collection of titles for study skills, writing for science, doing presentations, research and doing projects in available in Kevin St Library in Stack 10 at the 808 shelf number. The following links are also useful.

Referencing, Citing & Endnote

Endnote is bibliographic citation software which allows you to store and organise your references using a choice of citation styles. EndnoteWeb is the freeware version. Other freeware include Zotero and Easybib amongst others.

Back-Up Resources

If you need additional resources see Using Other Libraries and Inter Library Loans for further options.

Contacts

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