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