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.