Trial of the OECD iLibrary

The President's Office has organised an evaluation trial of the OECD iLibrary which can be accessed at http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org. As the trial is IP based, it can only be accessed from computers within the DIT Network. Business users may be interested in the country economic surveys,(France is the latest reported) and the 2011 Economic Policy Reforms survey. There is a Getting Started guide available HERE.

Future Skills Requirements

Thanks to Laurence Whitson, Careers Adviser, College of Business for pointing out the new Forfas report on future skills requirements. Entitled Guidance for higher education providers on current and future skills needs of enterprise, the report looks at the Irish economy sector by sector and spells out the training needs required for future development. The full report is available from the HEA website HERE

New Reading List Service from Emerald

Emerald has recently introduced a new reading list service called ReadingListAssist aimed at academic staff and drawing together a diverse range of journal and book content into 50 subject specific reading packages. Lists are presented in Excel and the majority of them have an accompanying editorial as an Adobe pdf. Lists are available for business, management, economics and social sciences. For more information check the website at www.emeraldinsight.com/teaching/listassist/index.htm

Measuring your Research Impact with MyRi

Everything you ever wanted to know about Journal Rankings, Bibliometrics and Measuring your Research Impact is now available at www.ndlr.ie/myri. Aimed at Researchers, Staff and Students, the MyRi open access series of learning objects is the result of a joint project between the Library Services of UCD, NUIM, DCU and DIT. The project was funded by the NDLR and includes training materials, videos, interviews and handouts.

Lexis Nexis now on Twitter

LexisNexis now on Twitter
The Legislation team at LexisNexis has launched a Twitter feed – this will enable many to have instant alerts to developments of particular interest to them. You can follow LexisNexis here

Student Handbooks

Student handbook
The library in Aungier Street has embarked on a project to keep an electronic version of all Student Handbooks- these are also known as Course Yearbooks. Student Handbooks for all College of Business Programmes are now available on the library catalogue. If the Handbook for your Programme of Study isn’t on the library catalogue, please contact us with the details and we will make it available. The available Student Handbooks are available here

Integrating Information Literacy into the Curriculum

The Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL), of which DIT Library Service is a member,has recently produced a booklet entitled Integrating Information Literacy into the Curriculum. The booklet is aimed at all staff engaged in course design and delivery. Its purpose is to show what information literacy is, how it can be successfully built into courses and programmes of study and how library staff can engage in collaborative partnerships to achieve this. It also offers case studies of good practice within the CONUL Libraries including the GET SMART initiative in Cathal Brugha Street. The guide is available to access on the Library homepage HERE

Learning and Teaching with Social Media

The latest issue from Emerald of On the Horizon [Vol.19(1)2011] is a special issue entitled Online Social Networking as a Site for Learning. It contains research articles examining bulding creativity and collaborative learning in a social media environment and exploring the integration of social learning networks for students.
From within DIT you can access the issue HERE. From outside of DIT login to the library website at www.dit.ie/library. Select Emerald Management Xtra from the A-Z list of databases and then On the Horizon. You will be asked for your login and PIN.

Economists Online

Economists Online is available at www.economistsonline.org/home and
- showcases some of the world's leading institutions, their scholars and their academic publications and datasets;
- contains over 900,000 bibliographic references, many with links to open access full text;
- combines content with RePEc archives to provide a new information service to the economist;
- is run by the Nereus consortium and co-funded by the European Union. It's worth a look!

University of California Press E-books

The University of California Press now has over 2000 e-books published between 1982 and 2004 available on their web site. Over 500 of the these are freely available for full text public access. Topics covered include sociology, politics, art, science, history, music, religion and fiction. Search as normal using the Advanced Search and then limit your search results under the SHOW tag to public access books. Have a browse at

http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/