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Training workshops
IEEEXplore: Training and Authorship Workshop
Date: Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Time: 10:00- 12:00
Venue: GWHE (Gateway Hall E) University of Malta, Msida Campus
Target audience: academics and students from the Faculty of ICT, Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science.
The workshop will cover:
- Writing a technical paper for the IEEE. Tips for young authors
- Tips and Tricks to search on IEEEXploreDigital Library
Get to know more and register for this workshop.
Library workshops:
- HyDi Workshops: Learn how to use our online catalogue to search for print and electronic resources!
- RefWorks Workshops: Create citations and bibliography with a click of a button!
- Library tours: Find your way around the Main Library!
- InfoBit Talks: 30-minute talks about useful tips and online tools that can assist you with your assignments and dissertations!
The timetable is available on the Library website.
What's new at Melitensia
Melitensia's book of the month - March 2020
The Parchments of the Mdina Cathedral Archives, Malta 1420-1959 – Stanley Fiorini
The publication The Parchments of the Mdina Cathedral Archives is the culmination of a four-year project by eminent historian Prof. Stanley Fiorini. The parchment collection at the Mdina Cathedral Archives had lain dormant until, at Mgr John Azzopardi’s prompting, Prof. Fiorini took it upon himself to undertake their studies. The parchments, comprising of papal bulls and briefs, episcopal elections, indulgences, edicts, contestations, court decisions which span over 500 years, shed new light on Maltese history and historical events. Prof. Fiorini analysed and summarised each of the 492 parchments and the results of his studies are published in this book with illustrations thanks to a collaboration with the Malta Study Center and the Hill Monastic Library of Minessota U.S. Funded and published by the Mdina Metropolitan Chapter.
What's new in OAR@UM
Newest additions to the Maltese Journals collection
We are happy to inform you that another Maltese periodical has been digitized and added in OAR@UM, further expanding the collection of local journals.
Humanitas: Journal of the Faculty of Arts was the peer-reviewed journal, launched as an indirect continuation of the defunct Journal of the Faculty of Arts in 1999. The main purpose of the publication was to introduce some of the main current issues and interests within the Faculty.
Furthermore, the newest issue of Malta Journal of Health Sciences was deposited.
Malta Journal of Health Sciences 6(2) features five research articles focusing on problems, such as: genomics, colton blood group antigens, stress in midwifery or pain management amongst Maltese pain chronic sufferers.
Open Access fact of the month
In order to navigate the thousands of scattered institutional repositories, digital archives and digital libraries, the interested researchers can make use of the so-called academic search engines. Aside from commercial tools, such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic, it is important to mention the metadata aggregators (some of them also known as the Open Archives Initiative Service Providers) - freely available websites/services, run by universities and scientific institutions with the single common goal: to bring together the Open Access content, enrich it and make it reusable. The bibliographic information collected from the source repositories and archives is used to build a fully searchable metadata database with a variety of value-added services, aimed at the end-users as well as authors and repository managers.
In order to navigate the thousands of scattered institutional repositories, digital archives and digital libraries, the interested researchers can make use of the so-called academic search engines. Aside from commercial tools, such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic, it is important to mention the metadata aggregators (some of them also known as the Open Archives Initiative Service Providers) - freely available websites/services, run by universities and scientific institutions with the single common goal: to bring together the Open Access content, enrich it and make it reusable. The bibliographic information collected from the source repositories and archives is used to build a fully searchable metadata database with a variety of value-added services, aimed at the end-users as well as authors and repository managers.
