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.

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.

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.

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

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.