Vogue Magazine Archive - trial

Proquest has set us up with a trial to Vogue Archive. “The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images.

Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

This archive is an essential for Fashion, Photography, Gender studies, Design, Textiles, and Business (branding, marketing, talent management) students and researchers.

ProQuest have worked closely with Condé Nast to create separate designated searchable fields for Fashion Item (e.g. kimono, Breton jacket, scoop neckline), Person Pictured, Company/brand, Designer Name, Material (e.g. chiffon, wool, taffeta), Trend, Colour and Print (e.g. batik, gingham, Liberty).”

The trial runs until 10th November 2011 and can be accessed from: here

Attention Law Students!

Need an Overview About a Case? Case Search gives you all the Key Information you need.

The people at LexisNexis have made things a little easier by moving the Digest of a case to the top of the CaseSearch document so you can quickly see what a case is about. All the existing information such as the case history and cases considered are still there, but you can now scan the Digest first for relevancy. Another time saver for the busy legal researcher!

Journals

30 leading full text journals are to be added to LexisNexis over the coming months from Bloomsbury and Cambridge University Press. This means more articles in key practice areas such as crime, European law, healthcare to name a few.

Can't remember that legal definition? Try LexisNavigator!

This online tool has been expanded to cover more than 1000 terms. Now it's even easier to find that legal term in the QuickFind search on your homepage or on the practice area pages.

You can access Lexis Nexis through our Databases page http://www.dit.ie/library/databases/

Log in remotely using your Student Number and Library PIN.

Emerald e-books on trial

Emerald has set us up with a trial to its two E-Books series collections: the Business Management and Economics collection and the Social Sciences collection. In addition to providing access to business and management materials, the Business, Management and Economics collection also provides access to tourism and hospitality content. The Social Sciences collection provides political, educational and sociological materials.

The E-Books can be accessed from the "Books" tab on the Emerald Database Advanced Search page - Click here
Let us know what you think of this collection.

DIT Aungier Street Library

Aungier St Library Opening Hours

Library Anywhere!

The library has subscribed to a service that gives us an app to provide some library services on a mobile phone. You can search the catalogue, ejournals, Arrow and access the library website. To access this service you need to use this url http://www.libanywhere.com/m/476. This URL can also be used on your computer.

Welcome

Irish Marketing companies responding quickly to QR codes!

There was an interesting article in the Irish Times over the weekend entitled How QR is raising the barcode in Marketing. Ireland is seemingly the 10th biggest user of these Quick Response codes - two dimensional barcodes that can be quickly scanned with a mobile phone. Marketing people are cottoning on to their potential in a big way. QR codes are popping up in Irish newspapers and magazines, at Dart Stations and bus shelters, on TV and on web pages. Estate agents, for example, are using them in newspaper listings where scanning a property's QR code can lead directly to further information online. As well as product details, QR codes can link to video, contact details/business cards, Facebook and Twitter pages amongst other things. See article HERE

Looking for Theses/Dissertations?

All post-graduate dissertations and theses received by the library are now available for reference use only on the upper floor of the library. Items are shelved alphabetically according to course title and each course has a distinguishing colour code on the spine.
Undergraduate dissertations are also on the upper floor but have been moved closer to the computer area. These are also colour coded for easy access.
A full list of all dissertations held by the Library is available on the library catalogue at library.dit.ie. To access simply enter dissertations dit aungier street as a subject search.
In addition, all DIT research theses - PhD and M.Phil – are available in full text on Arrow, the DIT Institutional Repository at http://arrow.dit.ie. Search under Theses or by author/title.

Emerald introduces Research in the News

This new online resource from Emerald highlights research that has direct impact or implication in the real world. Featuring a monthly selection of three to four articles/book chapters whose subject area is either very topical and/or groundbreaking, this resource demonstrates the real-world, practical application of Emerald content. Articles and book chapters are freely accessible for a month until they are replaced by the next selection of highly topical content. For more login to
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rin

New look E-Books

BookBoon, the free e-book provider, has revamped its website and now has a separate Business section which looks quite useful. There are also separate text book and travel sections. Included in the new titles under Business are Successful Prospecting in Sales, Strategic Financial Management and Analytics for Managerial Decision Making. It's worth a look at www.bookboon.com.