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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.