Wealth Management and Paying Taxes

Two new freely downloadable reports on the Price Waterhouse Cooper website are Paying Taxes 2011: the global picture and Global Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey 2011. .
For the full reports go to www.pwc.com

Summer Books

New book arrivals in June are now listed on the New Books list on the library catalogue and will be of particular interest to Media and Communications people. See the full list at library.dit.ie/ftlist/. The list is arranged by Dewey number so scroll down to find the area you are interested in.

2010 Journal Citation Reports

Data for 2010 is now available on the library subscription to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Web of Science. The reports include:

* More than 10,000 of the world's most highly cited, peer reviewed journals.
* Represents nearly 2,500 publishers and 84 countries.
* 1,075 journals receiving their first Journal Impact Factor.

Access JCR via the library website at www.dit.ie/library/databases/. Select JCR from the A-Z list of subscribed databases.

Costs of doing business in Ireland

Forfas has a number of new reports on its website at www.forfas.ie/publications/. These include:
* Costs of Doing Business in Ireland 2011 which evaluates Ireland's relative cost competitiveness, identifies barriers and sets out the actions needed to improve and sustain competitiveness. The 2011 report finds significant improvements but much more to be done.

*Analysis of Ireland's Innovation Performance takes an indepth look at trends and developments in Ireland's comparative innovation performance and aims to establish this performance at international level.

Media Street - new site for media and business

Take a look at Media Street - the new Irish Media Business Directory powered by MAPS. It features up to date media information including market rates, industry news and market data. For direct access go to www.mediastreet.ie or check it out on the library's subject links for both Business and Media and Journalism at www.dit.ie/library/subjects. There are some other good links there too that are worth a look!

New E-books on Westlaw UK

Westlaw UK are adding a number of new e-books to the database on June 28th. These are as follows:

. Colinvaux's Law of Insurance
• De Smith's Judicial Review
• Drafting Trusts and Will Trusts
• Gale on the Law of Easements
• Hudson's Building and Engineering Contracts
• Lewin on Trusts
• Lindley & Banks on Partnership
• MacGillivray on Insurance Law
• Russell on Arbitration
• Snell's Equity

Functionality for the new titles includes enhanced Contents Pages; PDFs for whole chapters; links to cases, legislation and journals referenced in the text; A-Z Index and pop-up footnotes in line with the text.
Access Westlaw UK from the A-Z of Library databases at http://www.dit.ie/library/databases/

Summer Opening Hours at Aungier Street Library

It's that time of year again and summer opening hours have arrived. We are delighted to announce that Aungier Street Library will open for 2 late nights a week over the summer from June to the beginning of the autumn semester. Until further notice, therefore, opening hours are as follows:

*Monday and Tuesday: 9.30am to 8.00pm
*Wednesday to Friday: 9.30am to 5.15pm

Closed Saturday and Sunday.

New electronic text books on BookBoon

BookBoon has added several new text books to its 'Essentials' series. These include Essentials of Statistics, Essentials of Macroeconomics and Strategic Marketing. Check them out at www.bookboon.com. Select Dublin Institute of Technology from the list of participating institutions.

Wiley's Online Library - free resources for students and academic staff

Wiley's Online Library now offers an interesting mix of free resources to students and academic staff in most business subjects. The mix includes free full text journal articles, free book chapters and a 'Register for Alerts' service. Check it out at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/subject/business

Free Trial of Alexander Street Literature.

Alexander Street Literature brings together the content of 8 separate Alexander Street literature collections, cross-searchable through a new interface. The new collection delivers the literatures of place, gender, and race. Students and scholars of literature, history, diversity studies, politics, transatlantic studies, postcolonial history, geography, cultural studies, and anthropology can now explore these important works that have previously not been available. Included is all the content in these Alexander Street collections: Latino Literature; Latin American Women Writers; Black Women Writers; Black Short Fiction and Folklore; South and Southeast Asian Literature; Caribbean Literature; Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period; and Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.

If you would like to see the complete collection and assess its value for your courses, the publishers have allowed us a temporary login through to the end of June:
http://wlit.alexanderstreet.com
Username: reviewer
Password: 278paperweight