Information on Irish M&A activity

Information on Irish Merger and Acquisition activities can be difficult to find. Ion Equity, a private equity firm based in Dublin and London, prepares a free quarterly report entitled the M&A Tracker Survey. This report provides a quarterly review of Irish trade sales, buyouts and acquisitions and is available at http://www.ionequity.com/media/surveys.asp

DIT Library now in Google Scholar's Library Links

DIT Library now participates in Google Scholar’s Library Links. This links the databases and electronic journals to which we subscribe with Google Scholar. This means that you can now link with a single click to the full text of articles that you’ve found by doing a search in Google Scholar, once those articles are available via DIT Library’s subscriptions.

To locate full text electronic content available through DIT Library, you can use Google Scholar Library Links. To do this you will need to:

-Go to http://scholar.google.com/
-Click on Scholar Preferences
-Type DIT in the Library Links section and click Find Library
-Tick the box next to Dublin Institute of Technology – Find @ DIT
-Click Save Preferences

The Find @ DIT link next to an article citation in Google Scholar will bring you directly to the full text if the article is available via DIT Library's subscriptions.

For more information see Google Scholar’s Library Links page and Understanding a Search Result.

Student Survey

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Fill in a short survey at https://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/933ag3375e and you could win €100.

Survey responses will be accepted until Friday 16th May.

There is also a direct link to the survey on the DIT Library Website at http://www.dit.ie/DIT/library/index.html

Check out Researcher ID.com from ISI Web of Science

What is ResearcherID.com?
ResearcherID is a service from ISI Web of Science whereby researchers are invited to join the Researcher Registry and receive a unique researcher ID number. Once registered users can:

• Update their profile information.
• Build a publication list using Web of Science search services or uploading a file.
• Select to make profile public or private.
• Use new tools in the interactive Labs environment to understand their personal metrics.
• Use the Citings Articles Network which graphically depicts who is citing their articles using an interactive world map.
• The Collaboration Network displays their collaboration associates also using an interactive world map.
• The Badge is a "roll over" tool which can be placed on any web page to provide a summary of ones’ profile and recent publications.

Whether registered or not, users can search the Researcher Registry to view profiles and find potential collaborators.

For more details and to register with Researcher.id login to Web of Science from the Library A-Z Listing of databases at www.dit.ie/library