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.