Fixed to Flexible - new E-book

If you are interested in cost, price, margin and other options for selling take a look at the new e-book from Todd Sattersten "Fixed to flexible" HERE.

Guru Godin

Marketeers throughout the world find it essential to keep up with the daily thoughts of the influential marketing guru Seth Godin according to the Irish Times (Innovation Supplement, Thursday 4th Feb.) Godin's blog is at http://sethgodin.typepad.com The library has a number of Godin's books including Tribes, Small is the new Big and Meatball Sundae if you want to know more.

Keeping up to date with EU News

Want to keep up to date with happenings in the EU without having to wade through turgid text while developing indigestion and eye-strain? Try logging into the European Information Association website at www.eia.org.uk/. Full of easy-to-read news updates, the site is user-friendly and intuitive and even has a "Quirky EU" section.

Economists Online - Bringing together Leading Economics Research

Take a look at the new Economists Online service which has been developed as part of a project called the Network of European Economists Online (NEEO). It brings together top economics research, providing access to the research results of economists from 22 prestigious academic institutions.

Economists Online which is funded by the European Union through the eContentplus programme
- showcases some of the world's leading institutions, their scholars and their academic publications and datasets;

- contains over 900,000 bibliographic references, many with links to open access full text;

- combines content with RePEc archives to provide a new information service to the economist.
For more login to www.economistsonline.org

New E-books from BookBoon

BookBoon has added a number of new e-books to their collection which might be of interest to Business and Information Systems people. These include:

Strategic Financial Management,
Accounting,
Dynamic Costing,
Demystifying Case interviews,
Jave: the fundamentals of objects and classes - an introduction to Java Programming,
IT and Programming.

Take a look on the BookBoon Site.

Industrial Relations News (IRN) Online- new subscription

The Library has recently organised a DIT-wide subscription to Industrial Relations News Online. To access, login to http://www.irn.ie with our new username and password. Please ring Allison at 3266 or Israel at 7167 for the login details.

Access is only available from within DIT's network.

Accessing Online Exam Papers

To access online exam papers follow the steps below:

Log on to the library website at www.dit.ie/library and select Search the Catalogue on the left. Click on Exam Papers and Quick Link to Recent Exam Papers. Select Faculty of Business or Faculty of Applied Arts, Aungier St as appropriate. Select the year you need. Files are divided into Sessional and Supplemental so select which you require. Exam papers are displayed by course code/year/shortened module name.
You will be asked for a login and password if logging into exam papers from outside the DIT Network. This is the login/password for the Student Intranet. Please contact the library at 4023068 if you are not sure of these.

DIT Adopts Research Mandate

As a sign of its comittment to the Open Access to Research movement, DIT has now become the first Irish third level institution to offically adopt a research mandate as recommended by the Berlin Declaration. This requires all staff/researchers to lodge a copy of their research output with the DIT Institutional Repository - ARROW. DIT joins 178 other organisations throughout the world to mandate its researchers in this way. Check out details of DIT's policy on the Arrow website.
For details of the Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)go to http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/. Scroll down to the Ireland section for DIT details.

Bestsellers in the Library!

Missed out on some of the top business bestsellers this Christmas? Then you will be pleased to hear that the Library has them all!

Amongst recent arrivals are:

Fintan O'Toole's Ship of Fools: how stupidity and corruption sank the Celtic Tiger;

Matt Cooper's Who really runs Ireland?;

Shane Ross's The Bankers and

Marc Coleman's Back from the Brink - Ireland's road to recovery.

TaxFind seamless access restored

Seamless access for the TaxFind database has been restored for users accessing the database from within DIT's network.

Users accessing TaxFind from outside DIT's network will still need to log in with a username and password.

Call the library at 402-3068 or use the Ask a Librarian service if you have any questions about using TaxFind.