Wednesday 23 December 2009

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.

Thursday 17 December 2009

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.

Friday 11 December 2009

New Reports from Mintel

Mintel has issued a number of new reports in the last 6 months that may be of interest. These include:

The impact of cross border shopping - July 2009
Capitalising on the short breaks market in Ireland - July 2009
Evaluating the commercial benefits of Online social networking - September 2009
Online Banking - December 2009
Expansion of non-food items in supermarkets - December 2009
Redefining the lifestyle of the 55+ Irish consumer - December 2009.

Plans for 2010 include reports on Online Shopping, Ready Meals, Food to go, Convenience Retailing, Own label brands, Reaction to the recession - changes in shopping behaviour, new media and the Irish consumer as well as the annual Irish Lifestyles report - the theme of which has yet to be decided.
Access via the library website under Databases.

Thursday 10 December 2009

More on Budget 2010

The Department of Finance's Budget 2010 website provides access to the full text of the Minister's speech, the Summary of Budget Measures and the Annexes to the Summary of Budget Measures, which include illustrative examples of the impact of Budget 2010 on different categories of income earners.

Wednesday 9 December 2009

Minister for Finance's Budget Speech December 9th 2009

The full text of today's Budget Speech is available on the Irish Times website at http://www.irishtimes.com/indepth/budget2010/speech/, where you can peruse it at your leisure!

Friday 4 December 2009

WARC - Advertising & Marketing information

WARC (World Advertising Research Centre)

Did you know that WARC (World Advertising Research Centre), one of the Databases from the Library, is loaded with information in the form of Articles, Case Studies and Reports covering Advertising, Marketing, Media, Brands and much more? WARC is updated on a regular basis so you are assured of getting something of interest should you take a look at what WARC has to offer. Have a moment to spare? Why don’t you take a look at WARC where you can easily set up an alert service which will notify you by e-mail each time something new is added to your area of interest.

Thursday 3 December 2009

US Legal Cases & journals on Google Scholar

Google Scholar now has access to full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) or other queries that you are interested in. Click on the "Legal opinions and journals" radio button and type in what you are interested in –for example try the query separate but equal. Your search results will include links to many cases on this, cases such as Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, which explore the acceptability of "separate but equal" facilities for citizens at two different points in the history of the U.S. Search results will also include opinions from cases that might not have made the headlines but which nevertheless played an important role in establishing precedents that guided the rulings of many other judges in similar cases.

Wednesday 25 November 2009

Project Muse - trial subscription

The library has taken out a trial subscription to Project Muse - a joint product from John Hopkins University and a number of non-profit scholarly publishers including university presses and societies. Muse includes over 100 journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science subjects. The complete journal content, including charts, graphs, and images is included. The producers guarantee permanent content that does not move or disappear. The trial lasts until January 8th 2010. Access at http://muse.jhu.edu or directly HERE

TaxFind Username and Password

TaxFind has moved to a new platform. As a result, our seamless access (via IP recognition) is not working at the moment. We can, however, log in with a username and password.

Please contact the library at 402-3068 or aungier.info@dit.ie for details of the username and password.

IP access should be restored shortly.

Thursday 12 November 2009

Learning to Share

Interesting article in the Times Higher Education Supplement (November 12th) on open access to research. Titled Learning to Share Zoƫ Corbyn and Matthew Reisz look at the issues involved. Open Access campaigners want free, immediate and permanently available research results for all. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. What are the ramifications for journal publishing? How will books fare? More HERE.

Wednesday 4 November 2009

Politico.ie - new online database of Social and Political issues.

Media staff/students and all those with an interest in current affairs should take a look at our latest subscription to Politico.ie - a new website service on social and political issues. As well as specially commissioned articles, Politico also includes the full text of Magill Magazine from 1977-98, Nusight from 1968-1970 and Village from 2004-2008. 'Tonight with Vincent Browne' is available on video as well as 'Vincent's Blog' on current affairs. The Library subscription is for one year only and feedback on how useful this site is would be appreciated. Access to Politico is via the Databases List on the Library website.

Friday 30 October 2009

Publishing Journal Articles

Staff might be interested in a clearly laid out, concise, 30 page guide from the National Federation of Advanced Information Services entitled "Best Practices for Publishing Journal Articles". See the full document on the NFAIS website.

Tuesday 27 October 2009

ResearchScope from WIT

Take a look at an exciting new index from Waterford Institute of Technology Libraries. ResearchScope is a full-text, searchable index of all open-access research in Ireland. Searching is easy through a single user interface and the index includes the research repositories of DIT (ARROW), NUI Galway (ARAN), NUI Cork (CORA), DCU (DORAS), NUI Maynooth, UCD, TCD (TARA) and WIT itself. The massive Irish Health Repository (LENUS) is also included. Congratulations to all involved at WIT.
To access click HERE.

OECD Statistics

Looking for international statistics?
The OECD website now offers a new section called Frequently Requested Statistics which might answer your needs and is freely available. Click HERE to access.

Thursday 22 October 2009

Companies Office Filings Available in FAME

Did you know that you can now download scanned copies of Companies Office filings from FAME?


To do this, type the name of the company you're researching (e.g., Aer Lingus) in the Company name or Registered no. search box and click on the OK button.


Click on the OK button on the next screen.


On the left of the company names displayed on the results list you'll see a number of icons indicating the various reports available of the Roll your mouse over the icons to the Click on the Scanned Reports icon


FAME providing financial information (profit & loss, balance sheet, etc. )and ratios for British and Irish companies.

Companies Office Annual Returns Available on FAME

Did you know that, in addition to providing financial information (profit & loss account, balance sheet, cashflow statement, financial ratios) for British and Irish companies, FAME now also allows you to download scanned copies of Companies' Office Annual Reports from FAME?

For instructions on how to do this, see the library's guide to FAME.

FAME is available from the library's Business subject links page and the Databases page.

Wednesday 7 October 2009

New e-texts from BookBoon

BookBoon added seven new textbooks to its collection of e-books in September - some of which may be of interest to Aungier Street staff and students. These include:
* Strategic Financial Management - theory.
* Strategic Financial Management - Exercise book
* Objected Oriented programming using Java
* Understanding Computer Simulation
* An Introduction to relational database theory.

Access electronic books via the Library website HERE

Friday 2 October 2009

Free Online Access to Sage Journals until 31st October 2009

SAGE Journals Online provides users access to more than 500 journals in business, social science, humanities, science, technology, and medicine.

DIT Library already subscribes to several Sage journals, but for the month of October, SAGE is offering free online access to content from 1999 to present in all SAGE journals.

Go to http://www.online.sagepub.com/ to register for this free offer.

Wednesday 9 September 2009

New Books over the Summer




Check out these new books and many more in our monthly New Books listing on the library catalogue at library.dit.ie/ftlist

Friday 4 September 2009

Equality News - new e-zine from the Equality Authority

The Irish Equality Authority has this month launched Equality News online. The e-zine includes case reports, feature articles and general news. Contributions, comments and event notifications are welcome. Check it out at www.equality.ie.

Monday 31 August 2009

The Zetoc Service

Zetoc provides access to the British Library's table of contents of journal articles and conference proceedings. It enables you to search for information in articles and conference papers published since 1993 and it covers over 20,000 journals held by the British Library. You can set up an email alert to receive emails automatically when new data is loaded into Zetoc that matches the searches that you have set up. You can also set up RSS feeds for journals. Take a look by selecting Zetoc from the list of databases on the library website or click HERE

Wednesday 19 August 2009

New What’s Hot Feature in Mintel

Have you seen the new What’s Hot feature in Mintel Irish Reports? Although our subscription to Mintel just covers the Irish reports, the What’s Hot feature provides up to the minute views from Mintel’s analyst team on trends in various UK markets as they happen.

Mintel provides Hot Topics under a wide range headings, including Eating Out, Retail, Technology, and a very topical Economy in Crisis.

You can access Mintel’s new Hot Topics via the library’s subscription to Mintel Irish Reports, available on from the library’s databases page.

Wednesday 22 July 2009

Welcome to EconPapers

EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software. The collection is impressive and includes:

> 297,491 Working Papers (239,574 downloadable) in 2,587 series
> 452,309 Journal Articles (399,274 downloadable) in 989 journals
> 1,811 Software Items (1,798 downloadable) in 24 series
> 3,930 Books (1,420 downloadable) in 116 series
> 12,917 Chapters (12,639 downloadable) in 58 series.

Check it out HERE

Tuesday 14 July 2009

Recommend a Book for purchase by the Library

The Library has set up an item request form on the website called Recommend an Item for Purchase. Click HERE for details.
There is also a link to the form from the Library A-Z section under book purchase and on the WebOpac at MyAccount.

Thursday 2 July 2009

Business Information Centre


Many DIT students have become familiar over the years with the excellent Dublin City Public Libraries Business Information Centre in the ILAC Shopping Centre off Henry Street. Get further details of the services on offer, collections, events, opening hours and much more on their website here.
[Click on Business Information on the left.]

New E-Books available


Check out the 15+ new full text e-books recently added to the Bookboon collection. Interesting titles include:

>The Accounting Cycle
>Current Assets within Accounting
>Classes in Java Applications
>C Programming in Linux
>Managing the Human Resource in the 21st Century
>Project Management

Access the ebook collection on the Library website or Link Here

Tuesday 23 June 2009

2008 Data for Journal Citation Reports Now Available

The 2008 data for the Science and Social Sciences editions of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. The new 2008 data ensures that you continue to have the most current information available to determine a publication's impact and influence in the global research community.

JCR is available from the library's databases page. Select Journal Citation Reports from the alphabetical list displayed.

Wednesday 17 June 2009

Bringing the Library to YOU! Summer services from DIT Library, Aungier Street.


Aungier Street Library will open from 9.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday only over the summer months. We recognise that this will cause difficulty for students with dissertation or assignment deadlines who cannot visit the library during office hours. As a result we have put together a package of services, which will continue until September 4th aimed at bringing the library straight to you.

These include:

Book Postal Scheme: Register with our Book Postal Scheme, use the online library catalogue to identify what books you need and we will send them to your home address. For further information contact: Anne Ambrose at 01- 4023067.

Book Return Bin: This is located just outside of the library door. The Aungier Street building opens from 8.00am to 7.00pm. If it suits, simply drop in your books to the “Blue Bin” and we will look after things from there.

OnLine Reference Service: Need help with sourcing information for your dissertation? Want to know how to use a particular database or e-journal. Contact our Ask a Librarian service. Queries can often be answered straight away but you are guaranteed an answer by the next working day. Our aim is to assist you in any way we can.

Hard-copy Journal Articles: If the article you need is not available online but is in our hardcopy collection – we will make every effort to get it for you.

Electronic Resources: DIT Library Service now subscribes to over 30,000 electronic journals and to all of the leading academic databases. Set yourself up with an access PIN and this vast library is available to you from your home PC. Simply login to the library website to get started. Online guides are available for most databases. If you need assistance in getting set up or in using any of our electronic resources please contact us via the Ask a Librarian service or by ringing us at 01-4023068.

Inter Library Loans: If the items you need– books, journal articles, conference papers, reports - are not available in our collection, we can request them on interlibrary loan on your behalf. Requests should be sent to the InterLibrary Loans Dept., DIT Library, Aungier Street, Dublin 2. This is a fee based service and some books may only be read on the premises. Email astill@dit.ie or ring 01-4023068 for further details.

ALCID Cards and Letters of Introduction: If you are a post-graduate student studying at Masters level or higher, we can provide you with an ALCID card. This will enable you to use any or all of the university libraries in Dublin and nation wide for study and reference purposes. We can also provide undergraduate students with letters of introduction to colleges nationwide. For further details and an ALCID application form click HERE. To request a letter of introduction contact the library at 4023068 or email via Ask a Librarian.

SCONUL Access Scheme: DIT Staff and Research postgrads (i.e., MPhil and PhD students) can also avail of the SCONUL Access Scheme. This allows you to visit, study in, research and BORROW from 180 participating member libraries throughout Ireland and the UK. All Irish University libraries, with the exception of Trinity College Dublin, are members of the scheme .Application Forms for SCONUL Access cards are available at the Main Library Desk. Further details of the scheme are available on the SCONUL Access website, or ring the Library at 4023068.

Enterprise in Dublin City

A Guide to Enterprise in Dublin City was launched by Dublin City Council and the Dublin City Enterprise Board on Monday, 15th of June.

The guide provides a wealth of information for those thinking about starting their own business or who have recently done so.

The first part of the guide advises on setting up and expanding your own small business. There are sections on advice and information, finance and grants, training and networking.

The second part provides a directory of many of the agencies and organisations that can offer services and help to make sure that your business idea will succeed.

The guide is available in hardcopy in the library or online at

http://www.dcebenterpriseguide.com/

Thursday 28 May 2009

Free Academic E-Books

The Dutch publishing company Ventus ApS now provide a free, fulltext E-books service at their Bookboon website.
Subject areas include Accounting, Business, Finance, Economics, Management, Marketing, Law, Languages and more. The books are written by UK and European academics, published by Ventus and financed by in-book advertisements. Definitely worth a look for students - as well as being an interesting business model

Wednesday 27 May 2009

ARROW hits 1,000!


ARROW@DIT - the DIT online research repository now hosts just over 1,000 DIT research papers online. This is an amazing achievement for a project that is less than one year old. Managed by DIT Library Services, ARROW has had 19,217 full text downloads since it began. Content includes articles, conference papers, theses, case studies, datasets and reports. Images can also be catered for. All uploads are mediated by library staff to ensure that copyright is not infringed.

For further details link to http://arrow.dit.ie

Research Zone on Emerald Management Xtra

Check out the Research Zone on Emerald Management Xtra. This area is designed to offer practical assistance and advice to research faculty in the business and management areas. The Zone includes details of research awards for doctoral and case study research in management; Information on winning research funding; "How to Guides" on designing, developing and presenting your research. Upload your own profile into Research Connections to meet like minded research professionals online and try Conference Central for links to international conferences and events from around the globe.

There is also a Learning Zone for students and a Teaching Zone which aims to provide support and ideas for faculty involved in teaching business and management.

To access all of the above select Emerald Management Extra from the A-Z list of databases on the library website at www.dit.ie/library.

Open Access Scholarly Journals on the Web

Take a look at the Directory of Open Access Journals at http://www.doaj.org.
Here you will find a huge collection of free, full text, quality controlled scholarly journals openly available to all. There are currently 83 business and economics titles as well as journals in Law and Political Science, Languages and Literature and Social Sciences. The directory now lists 4178 journal titles across the board and 1532 of these are searchable at article level.

Monday 27 April 2009

Change of Venue: WOK Training, Thursday 30th. April 2009

Please note that, in response to the large number of interested attendees, the venue for the Web of Knowledge training [see below] has been changed from the Aungier Street Library Training Room to Room 4-079 - [Lecture Theatre] in Aungier Street. Course will begin at 9.30am.

Thursday 16 April 2009

Web of Knowledge Training April 30th.

Guillaume Rivalle and Emma Swan – customer trainers from Thomson Reuters will present a training session on Web of Knowledge in Training Room 1, Aungier St Library on April 30th starting at 9.30 am. Training will cover Journal Citation Reports as well as searching across the 3 citation indexes – Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and Science. Training is open to academic and library staff as well as research students and will include specific training for researchers on citation impact factors, how to improve them, the h-index etc.

If you would like to attend please e-mail anne.ambrose@dit.ie as places are limited

Wednesday 15 April 2009

Plagiarism Interview - Professor Ferdinand Von Prondzynski

Last week Myles Dungan talked to Professor Ferdinand Von Prondzynski (President of DCU) about plagiarism on the Today with Pat Kenny show.

If you missed the programme, it is available as a podcast on RTE's website.

The interview also includes a discussion about the re-introduction of third-level fees.

New Business Database - FAME

The library recently acquired a subscription to FAME, a business database that provides financial information on Irish and British companies.

FAME allows you to find financial information and ratios for a specific company, or to search for and create a list of companies that meet your criteria (geographic region and number of employees, for example) and to display the results in a variety of customisable formats

FAME should prove a valuable resource for accounting and finance researchers and students, and for Hothouse students.

FAME is available from the library’s databases page at http://www.dit.ie/library/databases/ and from the Business and Economics Subject Gateway at http://www.dit.ie/library/subjects/businessandeconomics/.

Tuesday 31 March 2009

Have your say


The DIT Library User Survey is now up and running.

The form should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.

All completed responses will be entered into a prize draw.
We look forward to hearing from you!

Dr. Philip Cohen
HEAD OF LIBRARY SERVICES


Monday 16 March 2009

LENUS - the Irish Health Repository

Staff interested in health care management might want to take a look at Lenus - the new Irish Health Repository from the HSE. Created and managed by HSE Regional Library staff - Lenus makes available a wealth of material from former Irish Health Boards, the HSE, Dept. of Health and many other organisations in the field of Irish healthcare. It is also a platform for new original research carried out by HSE staff.
Lenus encompasses clinical research, policy evaluation, statistics and official publications and currently hosts over 4000 documents.

Check it out at www.lenus.ie

Thursday 12 March 2009

Alcohol Retailing - Ireland - March 2009

How far will Alcohol sales shift to the off trade and will packaging play a more important role?
Since Mintel last looked at Ireland’s alcohol retailing market in February 2008, the trend away from the on-trade towards drinking at home has intensified – driven by price increases in the on-trade and the lure of cheaper off-licence prices in the prevailing economic gloom of the credit crunch.
Read more in the March 2009 Mintel report.

Other new reports for 2009 include:-
Attitudes to Food and Drink - February 2009; Current Accounts - Ireland - February 2009; Airlines: Package v Online holidays - January 2009 and Clothing Retailing in Ireland, January 2009.

To access login to www.dit.ie/library. Select Databases from the left menu and Mintel from the alphabetical list of databases.

Tuesday 10 March 2009







Extended coverage of Irish Law Reports
Good news to those who use Irish Law Reports. In the coming days our subscription to Justis will have an extended coverage of the Irish Law Reports (ILRs); they are now available from 1838 to present. The ILRs are available in full text and most of these are available as printable PDFs that replicate the pagination and appearance of the original hard copies. Going so far back adds substantial value to the reports, while the long-awaited inclusion of PDF images – exact copies of what you’d otherwise spend hours photocopying greatly enhance the quality of these reports. Each report includes catchwords and a headnote, which summarises the judgments.

Thursday 26 February 2009

Irish Social Science Data Archive

Marketeers, social scientists and political animals might be interested in checking out the Irish Social Science Data Archive available for free here. The archive holds a range of key Irish and International comparative datasets and makes them available for secondary analysis by students, academics and researchers.
Quantitative dataset sources include CSO and ESRI. Public Health datasets include the Survey of Lifestyles, Attitude and Nutrition, Irish survey of Contraception and Crisis Pregnancy, Irish study of Sexual Health and Relationships and the National Disability Authority Attitudes Survey. Political and Social datasets include the Irish National Election Study and the Irish Social and Political Attitudes Survey.
International comparative data includes the Eurobarometer Series, European Social Survey, European Values Survey and ISSP Series.

Wednesday 25 February 2009

Aungier Street Library makes an exhibition of itself!

Library Ireland Week, March 2nd to 8th, aims to celebrate the important role of Libraries in Irish society. See www.libraryirelandweek.ie for details of events around the country. To mark the occasion the library at Aungier Street is hosting 2 exhibitions entitled "Art and Archeology in Aungier Street Library".
The first is a small exhibition of paintings and photographs by 3 members of library staff – Lorraine Lawlor, Eadaoin Ryan and Fiachra Mangan. The second exhibition by librarian Ciaran Quinn traces the history of the Aungier Street/Bishop Street area from a medieval monastic settlement to Jacob’s factory and its role in the 1916 Rising. Ciaran has gathered some really interesting material as part of his recent Masters in Archeology thesis. Do please drop in and have a browse!

Friday 13 February 2009

Datamonitor Reports Available in Business Source Premier

Looking for Datamonitor reports? Some of you may previously have accessed these reports from MarketLine, but did you know that all of the company, industry, and country profiles available in MarketLine are also available in Business Source Premier?

As previously mentioned, the library has cancelled its subscription to MarketLine.
This was for four reasons:

  1. The recent additional cuts in the library’s budget.
  2. All of the company, industry and country reports available in MarketLine are also available in Business Source Premier.
  3. The usage statistics for MarketLine were considerably lower than for other business databases (e.g., Business Source Premier, Emerald, Global Market Information Database).
  4. The library has used some of the savings to purchase a subscription to FAME, a business database which provides financial information, financial ratios, and reports.

To access Datamonitor reports in Business Source Premier:

  • Access company reports by clicking on the “Company Profiles” option on the menu at the top of Business Source Premier’s start page.
  • Access industry and country reports by selecting Advanced Search, limiting “Publication Type” to Industry Profile or Country Report, and entering the appropriate keywords in the search box.

For more information, see the Guide to Finding Market Research Reports in Business Source Premier


If you have any questions about finding Datamonitor reports, please ask Allison (3266), Ciaran (7166) or Israel (7167) for help.

Monday 2 February 2009

EPPI: Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801 - 1922

Are you doing a research that would require the use of parliamentary papers prior to 1922? If so did you know that some of the British Parliamentary papers on Ireland are available for free on the web? Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland (EPPI) 1801 - 1922 has a collection of some significant papers on the history of the State. EPPI is a bibliographic and full text database containing references of British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland: the database has 15,000 references – of which 10,000 are full text. Content of EPPI comes from the University of Southampton's unique Ford Collection of Official Publications and is available at: http://www.eppi.ac.uk/eppi/digbib/home

Friday 30 January 2009

EndNote Training in February

Two EndNote training sessions will take place in February organised by the Staff Development Office and presented by Library Staff.

1)Introduction to Endnote takes place on Wednesday 11th February
2)Getting Even More from EndNote on Wednesday 25th February.

Time: 2.30pm to 4.00pm

Venue: Library Training Room, DIT Aungier Street

Further details are available at the following link:

http://intranet.dit.ie/training/events/february2009.html

To book a place on either course email staff.training@dit.ie or gabrielle.deegan@dit.ie

Academic Search Premier now available

The HEA Irel Project has funded access to the Academic Search Premier database for 2009. It is now available on the library website at http://www.dit.ie/library/databases/
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals - more than 3,700 of which are peer-reviewed.

This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including computer studies, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, art & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Wednesday 28 January 2009

Library Replaces MarketLine with FAME

We continually review our database subscriptions to ensure that we are getting the most out of our (limited) financial resources. This has become even more important given the recent cuts in the library’s budget.

Currently, the library has subscriptions to MarketLine and Business Source Premier, both of which provide access to Datamonitor reports on companies, industries, and countries. (Business Source Premier also provides access to thousands of business journal articles.) Given this duplication in coverage, we have decided to cancel MarketLine and its sister database Reuters Business Insight, which provides market research information.

The money saved by cancelling these databases will allow us to purchase a subscription to FAME, which provides financial information, financial ratios, and reports, including Datamonitor company and industry reports.

We feel that this is a more efficient use of the library’s database budget.

If you would like more information about the background to this decision, please contact anne.ambrose@dit.ie.

Monday 26 January 2009

Library Trials 6 New Databases

Have a look at the 6 new trials we have been offered by Ebsco Publishers. They include Computers and Applied Sciences Complete; Education Research Complete; Humanities International Complete and SocIndex - all of which could be useful for Business and Media Arts.
Access the trials easily by selecting Business Source Premier from the A-Z list of databases on the library web site. At the main page click on Choose Databases.
Feedback on all or any of these databases would be appreciated - to Allison (3266); Israel (7167) or Ciaran (7166).

New Horizon Report 2009

The 2009 Horizon report is now available at http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/2009HorizonReport/48003

Horizon is a collaborative effort between New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Each year the report identifies and describes 6 areas of emerging technology likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning or creative expression in Higher Education within 3 identified time frames.

Friday 23 January 2009

2008 Examination Papers

All 2008 examination papers received to date have been loaded onto the Library catalogue for online access.


They are accessible in two ways:


Firstly select the “Exam Papers” link on the library catalogue web page (http://www.dit.ie/) and then search by course code or course title. Papers received from the exams office were added here up until April 2008.


More recently added exam papers are also accessible via the exam papers link and by selecting “Quick Link to Recent Exam Papers”. Choose the faculty you require (e.g. Applied Arts or Business), and then select by, the Year, Course Code, Sessional (regular exams e.g. Winter, Summer) or Supplemental (Autumn Repeats) which brings you to a list of files labelled by course code, year (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) and title(abbreviated). All papers received after April 2008 are added here.


If you can’t find the exam papers you require please contact the library.

Ciaran Quinn at 4027166 or Joanna Dziedzic at 4023068

Or E-Mail at aungier.info@dit.ie