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

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.