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

Archives Hub - gateway to research.

The Archives Hub at www.archiveshub.ac.uk provides a gateway to thousands of the UK’s richest archives. Representing over 180 institutions across the country, the Archives Hub is an effective way to discover unique and often little-known sources to support your research.

Use the Hub to instantly scan the archival landscape and bring together diverse sources held in repositories across the country. Historians will find the Hub an essential tool for their research. Postgraduate students can bring that extra unique something to their research. Educators can take advantage of the Hub to introduce students to primary sources for their course-work.

The Hub contains a huge diversity of content, from the archives of industries, institutions and researchers to the letters and manuscripts of writers and poets. New descriptions of archives are being added all the time, so the Hub is always worth a visit.

The Archives Hub is a JISC service, managed and delivered by Mimas, a national data centre at the University of Manchester. Software development work is undertaken at the University of Liverpool.