Project Muse - trial subscription

The library has taken out a trial subscription to Project Muse - a joint product from John Hopkins University and a number of non-profit scholarly publishers including university presses and societies. Muse includes over 100 journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science subjects. The complete journal content, including charts, graphs, and images is included. The producers guarantee permanent content that does not move or disappear. The trial lasts until January 8th 2010. Access at http://muse.jhu.edu or directly HERE

TaxFind Username and Password

TaxFind has moved to a new platform. As a result, our seamless access (via IP recognition) is not working at the moment. We can, however, log in with a username and password.

Please contact the library at 402-3068 or aungier.info@dit.ie for details of the username and password.

IP access should be restored shortly.

Learning to Share

Interesting article in the Times Higher Education Supplement (November 12th) on open access to research. Titled Learning to Share Zoë Corbyn and Matthew Reisz look at the issues involved. Open Access campaigners want free, immediate and permanently available research results for all. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. What are the ramifications for journal publishing? How will books fare? More HERE.

Politico.ie - new online database of Social and Political issues.

Media staff/students and all those with an interest in current affairs should take a look at our latest subscription to Politico.ie - a new website service on social and political issues. As well as specially commissioned articles, Politico also includes the full text of Magill Magazine from 1977-98, Nusight from 1968-1970 and Village from 2004-2008. 'Tonight with Vincent Browne' is available on video as well as 'Vincent's Blog' on current affairs. The Library subscription is for one year only and feedback on how useful this site is would be appreciated. Access to Politico is via the Databases List on the Library website.