Forfas 2009 Business Survey of Economic Impact now available

The Forfas Annual Business Survey of Economic Impact for 2009 is now available. The survey provides data on

• sales
• exports
• payroll costs
• purchases of materials and services and percentage that are purchased in Ireland
• training costs

for Enterprise Ireland, IDA, Shannon Development and Udaras na Gaeltachta client companies.

The figures show a decline in sales for manufacturing and internationally traded services for both Irish and foreign owned companies, with manufacturing companies suffering the largest reduction.

What do employers want?

What skills do employers want from graduates? How satisfied are they that graduates have these skills? How could graduates be made more employable? These questions and more are addressed in the recently published Flash Eurobarometer report: Employers' perceptions of graduate employability .
The report covers all 27 EU member states, in addition to Norway, Iceland, Croatia and Turkey and studies companies which either recruited graduates in the last five years or plan to do so in the next five years.

Free access to Irish Newspaper Archive

The publishers of the Irish Newspaper Archive have set DIT up with one month's free access. The archive provides access to 25 titles, including the Irish Independent titles, the Irish Farmer's Journal, the Freeman's Journal.
Please contact the library for login details.

Help us to help you!

Spotted a library computer not working? Found a laptop table power socket that's out of order? Please let the library staff know which computer or socket doesn't work so that we can report the problem and arrange to have it fixed.

Free access to Political Science Complete until 21 December

EBSCO has provided us with free access to their Political Science Complete database until 21 December. The database covers topics such as comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, NGOs, and political theory.

This database should be of particular interest to MA in Public Affairs and Political Communications students, and to anyone doing political science research.

Try Searcher and search up to 16 library databases at once

DIT Library Services has taken out a one year subscription to Searcher, a cross-resource searching tool.
Searcher allows users to search across up to 16 library databases at once, with more databases to be added shortly. A list of the databases covered is available on the Advanced Search page. Results are ranked by relevance and are clustered by author and topic. By creating a user profile, users can also set up alerts and customised searches.
Please send your feedback on Searcher to yvonne.desmond@dit.ie
The Library will be trialling another, similar, product after Christmas and will be seeking user feedback then on which cross-resource searching tool is better.

Free Online Access to Most Popular Wiley-Blackwell Business and Management articles

Wiley-Blackwell is offering free online access to some of their more popular business and management articles.

DIT Library Services has subscriptions to most of the journals in which these articles appear, but by clicking on this link you can link directly to the most popular articles in management, HR, industrial relations, small business and entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, marketing, innovation, operations management, and business finance, and view each article's impact factor.

WARC database available again

Access to WARC has been restored.

DIT library users have been unable to access WARC (World Advertising Research Centre) database for several days, but WARC has now rectified the problem.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused to library users.

Berg Fashion Library

The Berg Fashion Library is now available to DIT Staff and Students. The Berg Fashion Library provides access to interdisciplinary and integrated text and images on world dress and fashion. Invaluable for scholars, students, professionals, and anyone interested in dress, it includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, an extensive E-Book collection, a vast image bank, extra reference resources and more. Berg Fashion Library is now available on the Databases A-Z section of our website at:www.dit.ie/library/databases

Self Service Prize Winners

Congratulations to the Self Service competition prize winners!

Peter Cusack, a postgraduate Diploma in Accounting student,

is the winner of the first prize - an iPod Touch. This prize was

sponsored by 3M Ireland, the manufacturer of the self service machines.

Gloria Moosherr, an Erasmus student, won the second prize

of a €100 One4All voucher.

All students who used the self service machines in Aungier St

library during the month of October were eligible to enter the

prize draw. The self service machines enable users to borrow

and return library books and DVDs without queuing at the

main Service Point.

Saturday 30th October: Closing Date for Self Service Competition

Aungier St library's self service machines have been up and running for a month now and have been well received.
Saturday 30th October is the last day for students to enter the self service draw. 3M is sponsoring an iPod Touch and the library is offering a €100 One4All voucher, so come on in and use the machines to be in with a chance to win!

New E-Books from BookBoon

BookBoon has added a number of new free e-books which might be of interest to business and information systems users.

New titles include:

Portfolio Theory & Financial Analysis
Project Leadership -step by step: Part II
Microsoft Office Excel
Microsoft Office Word
Perl for Beginners

Mintel 2011 Trend Webinars

Mintel is providing two client webinars on Tuesday 9th November on 2011 consumer and Consumer Packaged Goods/Fast Moving Consumer Goods trends.

The webinars are designed to explain the 21 trends Mintel believe will make the biggest impact in 2011.

For more information and to register for one or both of the webinars, visit 2011 Mintel Trend Predictions.

What’s New on Westlaw UK?

Westlaw UK's Index of Legal Terms – has been launched! This offers you a new way to start your research by searching for definitions of legal terms. It pays to know what it is that you are dealing with before you attempt to find information on it – it does save you time. The Index offers a concise, expert explanation of legal concepts and terms with links to the supporting cases and legislation you need to join up your research, they will allow you to cut straight to the heart of a matter.

The second supplement to the White Book 2010 has also been added.
This supplement contains updating material for both volumes of the White Book 2010.

Read the Top Articles from Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Each year the Verity International Award for Best Paper in Management is awarded to an article which has appeared the previous year in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.

The Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, international quarterly journal that publishes manuscripts with a strong theoretical foundation.

The winning article, Conform or Rebel: When Does Keeping to the Rules Enhance Firm Performance by Alex Eapen and Rekha Krishnan, is available for free online, as are the following top articles from CJAS:

e-WOM Scale: Word-of-Mouth Measurement Scale for E-Services Context Isabelle Goyette, Line Ricard, Jasmin Bergeron, and Francois Marticotte.

Discretionary power of project managers in knowledge-intensive firms and gender issues Stephanie Chasserio and Marie-Josee Legault.

DIT Library Services also has electronic access to the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences via Business Source Premier from 1997 to July 2009.

DIT's Print Journals Now Listed in E-Journal Portal

DIT library services' holding of print journals are now included in the library's E-Journal portal .

This means the E-Journal portal is now a "one-stop shop" for determining whether the library owns a particular title in either electronic or print format.

For example, a search in the E-Journal portal for Journal of Marketing Management now indicates that, as well as being available online via Business Source Premier from 1985 to one year ago (due to the publisher's 1 year embargo), the title is also available in print in the library right up to the August 2010 issue.

This turns what was a for many users a two-step process (searching the E-Journal portal first, and then the Library Catalogue) into one easy step in the E-Journal portal.

Try Self Service and be in with a Chance to win an iPod Touch

Aungier St. library's self service goes live today!
The library has installed two self service machines which will enable users to borrow and return library books and DVDs without queuing at the main Service Point. These machines use the latest technology available and DIT is the first to install them in Ireland. They also fully integrate with the new smart ID cards introduced by Information Services for students this September. The combination of Self Service and smart ID card is another first in Ireland for DIT.
The new system uses a touch screen with clear prompts to help users to borrow and return books themselves. Library staff are on hand to help users with the new system, and every user gets a lollipop! The system should speed up waiting time for our users and give staff at the Service Point more time to help students and academic staff with research, ordering books, InterLibrary loans, and answering queries.
There are prizes for students who use the self service machines before 31st October - 3M is sponsoring an iPod Touch and the library is offering a €100 One4All voucher. So, come in and give the machines a go and be in with a chance to win!

Impact of the Recession on Irish consumers - Mintel's Irish Lifestyles report, August 2010

• How have Irish consumers responded and adjusted to the recession?
• To what degree have Irish consumers become more price-conscious and deal-let?
• What is the level of appetite among Irish consumers for some degree of escapism?
• Has the age of consumers taking things at face value gone?

These questions and more are addressed in Mintel's Irish Lifestyles report, published in August 2010.

Other recently published Mintel reports include:

Mortgages - Ireland - September 2010

Discount Retailing - Ireland - September 2010

Brand Loyalty in Food and Drink and Irish Consumers' Growing Fondness for Own Label - Ireland - August 2010

All these Mintel reports and more can be accessed the library's Business Resources page.

Invitation to the launch of RIAN - Ireland's portal to Open Access research publications

The Irish University Association is inviting interested parties to attend the launch of RIAN, Ireland's portal to Open Access research publications on Wednesday, 20th October, 1.30pm - 4pm in the Convention Centre Dublin.

RIAN harvests content from Open Access institutional repositories in all seven Irish universities and DIT. For the first time, Irish research will be made freely available on a worldwide scale. It is the outcome of a project which was managed by the IUA Librarians' Group, supported by the IUA, and funded through the Strategic Innovation Fund.
For more details about the event and to register, visit http://www.onehouse.ie/clients/iua/invite-09-2010/.
Registration will close on Friday 15th October. There is no registration fee.

Self Service - Coming to a Library Near You!

Aungier St library's self service will be launched on Monday, 4th October.

The library has installed two self service machines which will enable users to borrow and return library books and DVDs without queuing at the main Service Point. These machines use the latest technology available and DIT is the first to install them in Ireland. They also fully integrate with the new smart ID cards introduced by Information Services for students this September. The combination of Self Service and smart ID card is another first in Ireland for DIT.

The new system uses a touch screen menu with clear prompts to help users to borrow and return books themselves. Library staff will be on hand to help users with the new system. The system should speed up waiting time for our users and give staff at the Service Point more time to help students and academic staff with research, ordering books, InterLibrary loans, and answering queries.

There'll be prizes for students who are early users of the self service machines - 3M is sponsoring an iPod Touch and the library is offering a €100 One4All voucher - so come in next week and give them a go to be in with a chance to win!

Opening Hours from 20th September 2010

Aungier St library's opening hours from 20th September will be as follows:
Monday to Wednesday: 9.30am - 9.30pm
Thursday & Friday: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Saturday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Details for the other DIT library sites are available on the opening hours page on the library website.

BASIS: Business Access to State Information and Services

Wouldn't it be handy for business people to have a one stop shop where they could access all government information about regulations, grants, and support all in one place?
BASIS is a government website that aims to provide business users with a single access point to Irish government information and services.
The information is delivered with a consistent look and feel and focuses on the needs of the business community. Information and services on the site are organised by "life events" in a business, e.g., Starting a Business, Funding, Taxation, Closing/Selling a Business.

New Loan Period for Library Books Introduced from Today!

Why are the books you need always out on loan?
Are you tired of waiting for library books to be returned?

DIT Library Service is now introducing a better, fairer system of lending to undergraduates:
• To ensure a faster turnaround of our book stock,
• To reduce waiting times for students and
• To achieve a ‘better value’ return on cost for the collection as a whole.
From September 6th 2010, undergraduate students can borrow 6 Main Collection items at any one time for 14 days instead of the current 28. This will bring DIT Library Loan policy in line with university and institute policies throughout the country and achieve a fairer system for our own users in DIT.

Berg Fashion Library - free trial

The Library has organised a free trial of the Berg Fashion Library from Oxford University Press until October 5th. Access has been set up by IP address so you can start using the site now at www.bergfashionlibrary.com. {Please note that access is from within the DIT Network only and remote access is not possible.}
The Berg Fashion Library is the first online resource to provide access to interdisciplinary and integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion. It covers all regions of the world, with content from pre-history to the present day contributed by internationally renowned scholars. Researchers at all levels in anthropology, art history, sociology, theatre and cultural studies as well as the fashion and textile industries should find material of interest in the Berg Fashion Library. Do try it out and let us know what you think.

New ALCID Cards 2010-11 available

ALCID is a co-operative access scheme between the Libraries of DCU, DIT, NUI Cork, NUI Galway, NUI Maynooth, RCSI, RIA, TCD, UCD, UL, Mary Immaculate College, Mater Dei, St Patrick's College Drumcondra and St. Angela's College Sligo.

The ALCID scheme is open to full time academics, academic related staff and registered students studying at Masters level or higher. The card enables users to access the collections of each of the participating libraries, without formality,for reference and study purposes. Material can not be borrowed under this scheme. Find further details and an application form HERE

Searching Sage Journals

Take a look at the free Sage Journals Online database which allows searching to abstract level in more than 560 Sage journals across 50 disciplines. Aungier Street Library has quite a number of Sage journals in hardcopy - particularly in the media and communications areas - so using this database as an index could prove useful. The Library can, of course, also order papers we do not stock through the inter-library loan service on your behalf. Select Sage Journals from the A-Z list of databases on the library web pages.

Hospitality and Tourism Complete

The Library has recently upgraded its Hospitality and Tourism Index to Hospitality and Tourism Complete. This gives users full text access to over 500 publications including periodicals, company and country reports as well as books. Lots of useful material here for business staff and students.

E-Books Training for academic and library staff

Want to know more about Electronic books? Did you know that e-books can be annotated and given added value as part of your teaching activity? Mark Baulch from Coutts, our current e-books supplier, will be giving a training session on MyiLibrary, the e-books platform, in Aungier Street Library Training Room 1 on Monday, 6th.September at 2pm. If you are interested in attending please send your name to Anne Ambrose, College Librarian.

Wrestling with Starbucks

I like the title of one of our new books - Wrestling with Starbucks: conscience, capital, cappucino by Kim Felliner. The chapter titles sound even more intriguing with headings like - The Empire Strikes Gold; Banking on the Bean; Go Sell it on the Mountain; Capitalism is like Fire; Goodness as Battleground!! Find it on the opac HERE.

The Road to Mendeley

Thanks to Brian Gillespie at Bolton Street Library for letting us know about Mendeley - the "real" social networking app for researchers at www.mendeley.com. and for giving us the title of this post!! Describing itself as the iTunes for research papers, Mendeley is a free research management tool for desktop and web. See article in last Friday’s Irish Times for further details. Current users are definitely enthusiastic about its merits!

New Journals added to Westlaw UK

Two new full-text journals have recently been added to the Westlaw UK database.

Sweet & Maxwell's EUROPEAN NEWSLETTER focuses on the tax regimes and laws affecting business transactions in Europe. It provides analysis and discussion of major changes in the laws of the individual member States. Ten updates a year ensure you stay informed of key business topics and legislative changes throughout Europe.
Coverage on Westlaw UK starts from 2003.

The JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SECURITY LAW, also from Sweet & Maxwell, is a comprehensive guide to frequent developments and key legal and policy issues affecting UK social security and welfare law. It includes coverage of the Jobseeker's Allowance, child support, disability benefits, the social fund and other income related and non-means tested benefits. It covers both current and impending legislation, recent cases and other news. Coverage on Westlaw UK starts from 1994.

Access Westlaw UK via the library website databases page at www.dit.ie/library/databases/

Chronicle of Higher Education - free trial

Following an academic staff request, the library has arranged a free trial to the Chronicle of Higher Education until the end of September 2010.

For a world-wide perspective of academe, users now have complete access to:

>The Web site http://chronicle.com/ updated throughout the day with the latest news in academe with a “switch” that allows users to easily view both U.S. and Global editions;
>News from the current print edition(http://chronicle.com/section/Current-Issue/38/
>A searchable archive of previously published content from as far back as 1998;
>Commentary and essays from the weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review (http://chronicle.com/section/The-Chronicle-Review/41/);
>Data and statistics from the annual Almanac and other special, single-topic reports in easy-to-search databases (http://chronicle.com/section/Facts-Figures/58/);
>The new WorldWise blog with commentary from globetrotting higher-education thinkers who monitor the growing connections across borders at http://chronicle.com/blog/WorldWise/32/
Please let us know if you think the Chronicle might be a useful addition to library collections.

Aungier St. Library goes Electronic!

The Library now has a policy of purchasing e-texts where they are available, the price is right and especially when multiple copies of a text are required. Our current provider is Coutts who run the MyiLibrary system. We will initially purchase a 3 simultaneous-user license for each title. When a title is being used by 3 people concurrently and a 4th. person logs in - Coutts will not prevent this access. However, if a title is continuously being accessed over the license limit, Coutts will advise the library and we will have the option of increasing to a 5-user license or higher. Four new titles recently received are:

> Flagship marketing: concepts and places / Tony Kent and Reva Brown.
> Fundamentals of Strategy / Gerry Johnson.
> The DNA of customer experience: how emotions drive value / Colin Shaw.
> Marketing management and strategy / Peter Doyle.

These are all available on the catalogue just like their hardcopy equivalents. Take a look and let us know what you think. We would really appreciate your feedback.

New Journalism Titles

Take a look at the New Books List on the library opac to keep up to date with library acquisitions. Recent additions include a number of new journalism and ethics titles.

DM Weekly - direct marketing newsletter from DMA

The Direct Marketing Association is offering a weekly newsletter to direct marketing professionals. DM Weekly contains latest industry news and analysis, the UK's largest jobs database and offers to e-mail pre-set news alerts directly to your desktop. The current issue headlines include:
> Tesco launches €140 Clubcard promotion.
> Cadbury accounts for 90% of Kraft profit.
> BD Network acquires We love Mobile.
A Technology Weekly newsletter is also on offer. To register for these newsletters, fill in the registration form at DMweekly.mad.co.uk

Ethos - electronic doctoral theses

Ethos is a new service from the British Library which offers researchers from all over the world a single point of access to UK doctoral theses. The service currently holds 250,000 records some dating back to the 1600s with 111 UK Universities participating to date. Users can search the database without registering. To download or order a thesis to be digitised, however, registration is necessary. The system harvests theses from open access institutional repositories so many of the theses are available free of charge. If a participating institution has not made their theses available electronically, they will be digitised and, at the moment, can take up to 30 days to receive. Cost of digitisation is usually borne by the institution but, in some cases, may have to be accepted by the individual requester. Theses are normally available as pdf files but can also be ordered on CD/DVD for an extra charge. Ethos can be found at ethos.bl.uk. M.Phil theses can still be ordered through the library's Inter-Library Loan Service.

Emerald to launch 12 New Journals in 2011

The Emerald Management Xtra database will have 12 new journals added to its portfolio in 2011. These include: China Finance Review International; Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies; Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development; Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning; Grey Systems: Theory and Application; Built Environment Project and Asset Management; Journal of Family Business Management; Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies; Sport, Business and Management: an International Journal; Arts Marketing: an international Journal; Journal of Social Marketing; Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
Emerald is available via the Library webpages at www.dit.ie/library/databases/

The Institute for the Future of the Book

Some interesting research is being carried out by the Institute for the Future of the Book. Based in New York the website describes the Institute as "a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens. We are funded generously by the MacArthur Foundation, and affiliated with the University of Southern California". Some of their projects to date include:

# Expressive Processing »
# The Googlization of Everything »
# Gamer Theory »
# MediaCommons »
# In Media Res »
# HASTAC digital learning report »
# Operation Iraqi Quagmire »
# The Holy of Holies »
# Without Gods »
# IT IN place »
# The Gates Memo

World Economic and Social Survey 2010

The World Economic and Social Survey 2010: Retooling Global Development is now available online and may be of interest to International Business and Marketing researchers. The report outlines the major systemic failures in the global economy and weaknesses in global governance systems while suggesting a number of imperative actions that need to be taken.

Finding Images on the Web

Would you like to learn how to use the Internet to find copyright cleared images for your coursework quickly and efficiently? The Intute Virtual Training Suite has now introduced an online tutorial on just that. The tutorial covers the pros and cons of using search engines to find images; the financial and legal implications; outlines key online image sites and collections and tells you how it is all done successfully in a series of easy to follow guides.
The Virtual Training Suite also provides tutorials on finding information in Law, Business & Management, Media & Communication; Economics, Modern Languages, Psychology amongst many more. Definitely worth a look on their website at www.vts.intute.ac.uk

Mintel 2010 - reporting on Irish Life and Work

Take a look at the series of new reports from Mintel in 2010. These include

> Young People (18-24s)and their Attitudes to Alcohol
> Convenience Retailing - Ireland
> Hot Trends in Retail Bakery - Bread,Cakes and Biscuits
> How Have Irish Companies and Consumers Embraced Online Shopping?
> Premium Alcoholic Drinks
> Personal Loans
> Expansion of Non-Food Lines in Supermarkets
> Savings - Ireland
> Targeting the Over-50s
> Domestic vs Overseas Holidays
> In-home Entertainment

Have a browse at www.dit.ie/library/databases/. Simply select Mintel Irish Reports from the A-Z list.

Reports from Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC)

There are a number of interesting reports on the PWC website which are worth a look. Under their Research and Insights section, for example, there is an analysis of the Transportation and Logistics industry to 2030, a Global Entertainment and Media Outlook from 2010-14 and a number of useful management reports. All reports are full text. In their Global Pressroom area business/marketing/media researchers might be interested in Back on Track - think global, win local to succeed in the global sports market and Consumer behaviour drives change: Entertainment and Media players seek new roles in digital value chain. These releases are not full text but contain key information nonetheless. For more see www.pwc.com.

News International withdraws from Databases

The future delivery of online newspapers and whether, in fact, they are financially viable has been a favourite industry topic in recent years. Sometime ago we posted a piece on the 'paywall' recently installed on The Times and Sunday Times websites. [See July 14th] At the time we were wondering if this was the future for online newspapers. It would seem that News International thinks it is. Two of the Library's major database suppliers - Westlaw UK and the Lexis and Nexis services - have now informed us that The Times, Sunday Times, The Sun and News of the World have all withdrawn their archives from these databases and terminated all future provision. It seems that the only way we are going to get to read News International publications online from now on is to pay up and scale that paywall!

2010 Case Study Writing Competition

Want to try your hand in the European Case Study Clearing House case writing competition? September 30th is the deadline for submissions to ecch. There are various categories listed on the website and the individual prize is £1,500 - as well as the fame of course! Visit www.ecch.com/casecompetition for further details.

What a paywall looks like!

Take a look at the new 'paywall' introduced on July 2nd. by the The Times and Sunday Times newspapers. The paywall is a screen you get when you try to go beyond the homepage at thetimes.co.uk. The options are a 24 hour day pass for £1 or you can pay £1 for 30 days and £2 per week thereafter. BBC Breakfast called the paywall 'a tollbooth in the middle of the ocean' and the Guardian has offered a warm welcome to 'former Times readers'. Is this the future for online newspapers? Apart from complaining about the need to login all the time, The Times blog comments are surprisingly favourable.

DIT Library and partners win funding for bibliometrics research

Four Irish academic libraries, UCD, DCU, DIT and Maynooth, are collaborating to produce online learning resources to support bibliometrics and research assessment awareness and training.

Bibliometrics is a set of methods used to measure research publications and is one key approach being used to assess research impact.

This project will produce a range of materials hosted on the NDLR dSpace platform that can be downloaded, customised and used under Creative Commons license by anyone providing bibliometrics awareness and training.
The successful bid was made for project funding from the NDLR LInCS (National Digital Learning Resources - Learning Innovation Community Support) 2010 programme (http://www.ndlr.ie/) with the materials available at the end of the year and showcased in the annual NDLR event.

Enhancements at Google Scholar

Google Scholar has now introduced e-mail alerts of newly indexed material that matches a previous search. To use simply carry out your search,display results and if you want to set up an alert, click the 'Envelope' icon on the top left. You can use proper names, keywords and phrases in your search but the alerts do not work with journal titles.

Scholar also now allows you to search within citing articles. Simply click on the "Cited By" link in the search results page. Then click on the "Search within articles citing" checkbox.

New Web Pages for Aungier Street Library

Aungier Street Library has now put together a specific set of web pages aimed at outlining the resources and services available to Business, Media and Law staff and students. The idea is that you will find everything you need to know about the library in the one spot! We hope you will find it useful. Have a look at http://www.dit.ie/library/sites/aungierst/

Business Barometer Service

The Business Barometer service from Vision-net is worth taking a look at. Describing itself as 'Tracking the pulse of Irish business risk weekly', the latest issue headlines "130 more Irish Company Insolvencies in 2010 than for the same period in 2009". The barometer includes data on company closures, insolvencies, appointments, CRO updates, registered mortgages/charges and more. If you are interested send your email address to receive updates.

Westlaw Business Currents with Reuters

Westlaw Business Currents is a bi-weekly e-newsletter for business lawyers and academics with leading legal and business analysis including Reuters News. The newsletter looks at emerging legal trends and their impact on the business environment and focuses exclusively on the business law aspects of market developments. All DIT lecturers and staff can sign up for this newsletter by sending their name and email address to phillippa.pritchett-brown@thomsonreuters.com

YouTube just got smarter!

Did you know you now have an excuse to spend time on YouTube while you're studying/working... without feeling guilty? YouTube has great educational content available that can actually help you study, like channels from popular databases ScienceDirect and Ebsco and YouTube EDU, which brings together educational materials from major universities.
Business students could check out Business Searching Interface Tutorial or SWOT Analysis using Business Source Premier. Media students might find Academic Search Premier Tutorial useful or Find Scholarly Articles in Communication and Mass Media Complete
Check these channels out for yourself at www.youtube.com and remember: it's all in the name of study!

New Books with an Irish Interest

The Library has recently received a diverse range of new books with an Irish slant. These include Michael Clifford's Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia; Occasions of Sin: Sex and society in Modern Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter and Mna na hEireann: women who shaped Ireland by Nicola Depuis. Other new arrivals particularily relating to women are The Minority Interest: women who succeed in the Accountancy profession by Pat Barker of DCU and Black Women in White America a fascinating documentary history edited by Gerda Lerner. Check out the library catalogue at http://library.dit.ie/

2009 Journal Citation Reports

The 2009 data is now available in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from ISI. There are approximately 700 additional Journal titles with their first Journal Impact Factor. To access login to the JCR from the Library' alphabetical listing of databases at www.dit.ie/library/databases.

Further information on the process is available at:
http://isiwebofknowledge.com/products_tools/analytical/jcr/.

New Books in the library.

Check out the latest arrivals in Aungier Street Library including business, law and media books. The full list is available every month in the New Books section of the Library Catalogue at http://library.dit.ie/ftlist

Think Tank for Progressive Economists

TASC - the think tank for action on social change - has established "a forum for progressive economists and others commenting on the Irish economy". They say "it is time to reclaim 'economics' by rediscovering the political, social and cultural in 'economics" Check it out here.

Those Reports!

In case you haven't found them already those 2 reports are readily available on the web. The Regling/Watson Report -A preliminary report on the sources of Ireland's Banking Crisis is available on the Irish Government website and the Honohan report The Irish Banking Crisis: Regulatory and Financial Stability Policy 2003-8 is available via the Central Bank.

E-Books - New Business Titles and Free Travel Guides

Four new business titles in the BookBoon ebook service may be of interest. Three are in their "Essentials Series" - Essentials of Macroeconomics, Essentials of Marketing Research and Essentials of Marketing Research Exercises. The fourth is a useful introduction to project management entitled Project Leadership Step by Step.
For those of you planning holidays abroad their free travel guide series covering Europe, the Far East and South America, might be worth a look.
Access BookBoon under the Electronic Books link on the library webpages at www.dit.ie/library

DIT Library Services Research Survey

Library Services is running a survey of researchers - students and staff - to ascertain how best the library can support the research community. The link is at
(https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N9LXSR5)
We would greatly appreciate your input. The survey will be live until Wednesday, June 23rd.

Library Summer Services 2010

Once again Aungier Street Library will open from 9.30am to 5.15 pm Monday to Friday over the summer months. Library staff recognise that this will cause difficulty for students with dissertation or assignment deadlines who cannot visit the library during office hours. We are, therefore, again offering a package of services over the summer until September 3rd. which is intended to bring the library to you!

These services include:

Book Postal Scheme: Register with our Book Postal Scheme, use the online library catalogue to identify what books you need and we will send them to your home address. For further information contact: Anne Ambrose at 01- 4023067.

Book Return Bin: This is located just outside of the library door. The Aungier Street building opens from 8.00am to 6.00pm. If it suits, simply drop in your books to the “Blue Bin” and we will look after things from there.

OnLine Reference Service: Need help with sourcing information for your dissertation? Want to know how to use a particular database or e-journal. Contact our Ask a Librarian service. Queries can often be answered straight away but you are guaranteed an answer by the next working day. Our aim is to assist you in any way we can.

Hard-copy Journal Articles: If the article you need is not available online but is in our hardcopy collection – we will make every effort to get it for you.

Electronic Resources: DIT Library Service now subscribes to over 30,000 electronic journals and to all of the leading academic databases. Set yourself up with an access PIN and this vast library is available to you from your home PC. Simply login to the library website to get started. Online guides are available for most databases. If you need assistance in getting set up or in using any of our electronic resources please contact us via the Ask a Librarian service or by ringing us at 01-4023068.

Inter Library Loans: If the items you need– books, journal articles, conference papers, reports - are not available in our collection, we can request them on interlibrary loan on your behalf. Requests should be sent to the InterLibrary Loans Dept., DIT Library, Aungier Street, Dublin 2. This is a fee based service and some books may only be read on the premises. Email astill@dit.ie or ring 01-4023068 for further details.

ALCID Cards and Letters of Introduction: If you are a post-graduate student studying at Masters level or higher, we can provide you with an ALCID card. This will enable you to use any or all of the university libraries in Dublin and nation wide for study and reference purposes. We can also provide undergraduate students with letters of introduction to colleges nationwide. For further details and an ALCID application form click HERE. To request a letter of introduction contact the library at 4023068 or email via Ask a Librarian.

SCONUL Access Scheme: DIT Staff and Research postgrads (i.e., MPhil and PhD students) can also avail of the SCONUL Access Scheme. This allows you to visit, study in, research and BORROW from 180 participating member libraries throughout Ireland and the UK. All Irish University libraries, with the exception of Trinity College Dublin, are members of the scheme. Application Forms for SCONUL Access cards are available at the Main Library Desk. Further details of the scheme are available on the SCONUL Access website, or ring the Library at 4023068.

DIT Research Theses now on Dart-Europe

DIT's research theses (PhD & MPhil) are now available through Dart-Europe - the European electronic theses & dissertations portal. The portal is harvesting the theses from our institutional repository "ARROW". DIT is the third Irish institution to join DART-Europe. Dublin City University and Waterford Institute of Technology are already members.
For more information go to http://www.dart-europe.eu

From Challenge to Change: Business Schools in the Wake of Financial Crisis

What is the role of business schools in the recent financial crisis? And what part will they play in the subsequent recovery?

• President and CEO of AACSB International John J. Fernandes believes that education and not regulation holds the key to global prosperity.
• Eric Cornuel, CEO & Director-General, EFMD feels that business schools should question their methods for preparing participants to become innovators and leaders.
• Andrzej Kozminski, Rector of Kozminski University in Poland, warns against the dangers of a "one-size-fits-all" approach.
• Howard Thomas and Alex Wilson, of Singapore Management University and Warwick Business School UK, respectively, assert that we must “find the voice of practice” in research.

Emerald Group Publishing have collaborated with the Global Foundation for Management Education (GFME) to publish a collection of essays from GFME Board Members entitled From Challenge to Change: Business Schools in the Wake of Financial Crisis, available for free online.

As well as offering an insight into current thought from Deans and Directors from the UK, Canada, USA, Poland, Spain and Thailand as well as Directors and Presidents from AACSB and EFMD, it is hoped that the articles will encourge debate about the role of Business Schools during this period of economic uncertainty.

European Case Awards by ECCH

Call for cases
To celebrate their 21st birthday in 2011, the ECCH European Case Awards will become a global event and a case writing competition has been launched.

Categories
Authors of management case studies are invited to submit entries in two categories:
• Renewable and sustainable energy, technology and development
• New case writer: a first teaching case in any business subject area

Submissions
Cases must have been tested in the classroom, completed after 1 April 2009 and be accompanied by a teaching note.

Submission deadline
30 September 2010

Prizes
The author(s) of the winning case in each category will receive a single prize of €1,500.

Further details
Visit www.ecch.com/casecompetition

Irish Times E-paper now Available

The Library now has 5 concurrent user licenses for the e-paper version of the Irish Times. This digital version re-produces the hard copy paper in exact replica.

Access has been set up through our IP address. Just click on "Today's epaper" from the toolbar at the top of the Irish Times homepage to gain access. See the user options at the bottom of the page to customise the paper style you wish to display.

This access is only available from DIT networked computers. The Library also subscribes to the Irish Times Archive.

Solution to Business Source Premier error message

Some of our users have reported getting an "Application Level Exception" error message in Business Source Premier which prevents them from being able to use the database.

We've found that upgrading to Internet Explorer 7 or using version 3.6 of Firefox solves this problem. You can download IE7 or Firefox 3.6 for free online.

Finding PowerPoint Presentations on the Web

Do you want to find Web based PowerPoint presentations on a topic of interest to you? Do you know where to start? Did you know the Web has PowerPoint presentations on any topic that you can think of. Take a look at Powerpoint-search.com - http://www.powerpoint-search.com - Just Enter your topic of interest and see what you can get!!!

EndNote Desktop - subscription cancelled.

DIT Library Services has decided to end its DIT-wide subscription to the EndNote Desktop Bibliographic Management Software. The cancellation will take effect from April 30th 2010.
EndNote Web will continue to be available to all users through our subscription to the Web of Science databases.
The decision to cancel EndNote Desktop was taken reluctantly - in light of reduced budgets for resources and reduced staffing to provide user support. It follows a recent survey we undertook of DIT researchers which indicated that the level of usage does not merit the substantial investment involved.
The EndNote Desktop licence allows DIT to continue to use in perpetuity the software we have already. The latest Version X3 is now available and will be rolled out to library and laboratory computers over the next two weeks. Staff and students who wish to upgrade to VX3 on their personal computers should contact Fiachra Mangan immediately at 402 7176 or email him at fiachra.mangan@dit.ie