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Dr. Philip Cohen
HEAD OF LIBRARY SERVICES

LENUS - the Irish Health Repository

Staff interested in health care management might want to take a look at Lenus - the new Irish Health Repository from the HSE. Created and managed by HSE Regional Library staff - Lenus makes available a wealth of material from former Irish Health Boards, the HSE, Dept. of Health and many other organisations in the field of Irish healthcare. It is also a platform for new original research carried out by HSE staff.
Lenus encompasses clinical research, policy evaluation, statistics and official publications and currently hosts over 4000 documents.

Check it out at www.lenus.ie

Alcohol Retailing - Ireland - March 2009

How far will Alcohol sales shift to the off trade and will packaging play a more important role?
Since Mintel last looked at Ireland’s alcohol retailing market in February 2008, the trend away from the on-trade towards drinking at home has intensified – driven by price increases in the on-trade and the lure of cheaper off-licence prices in the prevailing economic gloom of the credit crunch.
Read more in the March 2009 Mintel report.

Other new reports for 2009 include:-
Attitudes to Food and Drink - February 2009; Current Accounts - Ireland - February 2009; Airlines: Package v Online holidays - January 2009 and Clothing Retailing in Ireland, January 2009.

To access login to www.dit.ie/library. Select Databases from the left menu and Mintel from the alphabetical list of databases.

Extended coverage of Irish Law Reports
Good news to those who use Irish Law Reports. In the coming days our subscription to Justis will have an extended coverage of the Irish Law Reports (ILRs); they are now available from 1838 to present. The ILRs are available in full text and most of these are available as printable PDFs that replicate the pagination and appearance of the original hard copies. Going so far back adds substantial value to the reports, while the long-awaited inclusion of PDF images – exact copies of what you’d otherwise spend hours photocopying greatly enhance the quality of these reports. Each report includes catchwords and a headnote, which summarises the judgments.

Irish Social Science Data Archive

Marketeers, social scientists and political animals might be interested in checking out the Irish Social Science Data Archive available for free here. The archive holds a range of key Irish and International comparative datasets and makes them available for secondary analysis by students, academics and researchers.
Quantitative dataset sources include CSO and ESRI. Public Health datasets include the Survey of Lifestyles, Attitude and Nutrition, Irish survey of Contraception and Crisis Pregnancy, Irish study of Sexual Health and Relationships and the National Disability Authority Attitudes Survey. Political and Social datasets include the Irish National Election Study and the Irish Social and Political Attitudes Survey.
International comparative data includes the Eurobarometer Series, European Social Survey, European Values Survey and ISSP Series.

Aungier Street Library makes an exhibition of itself!

Library Ireland Week, March 2nd to 8th, aims to celebrate the important role of Libraries in Irish society. See www.libraryirelandweek.ie for details of events around the country. To mark the occasion the library at Aungier Street is hosting 2 exhibitions entitled "Art and Archeology in Aungier Street Library".
The first is a small exhibition of paintings and photographs by 3 members of library staff – Lorraine Lawlor, Eadaoin Ryan and Fiachra Mangan. The second exhibition by librarian Ciaran Quinn traces the history of the Aungier Street/Bishop Street area from a medieval monastic settlement to Jacob’s factory and its role in the 1916 Rising. Ciaran has gathered some really interesting material as part of his recent Masters in Archeology thesis. Do please drop in and have a browse!

Datamonitor Reports Available in Business Source Premier

Looking for Datamonitor reports? Some of you may previously have accessed these reports from MarketLine, but did you know that all of the company, industry, and country profiles available in MarketLine are also available in Business Source Premier?

As previously mentioned, the library has cancelled its subscription to MarketLine.
This was for four reasons:

1. The recent additional cuts in the library’s budget.
2. All of the company, industry and country reports available in MarketLine are also available in Business Source Premier.
3. The usage statistics for MarketLine were considerably lower than for other business databases (e.g., Business Source Premier, Emerald, Global Market Information Database).
4. The library has used some of the savings to purchase a subscription to FAME, a business database which provides financial information, financial ratios, and reports.
   

To access Datamonitor reports in Business Source Premier:

• Access company reports by clicking on the “Company Profiles” option on the menu at the top of Business Source Premier’s start page.
• Access industry and country reports by selecting Advanced Search, limiting “Publication Type” to Industry Profile or Country Report, and entering the appropriate keywords in the search box.

For more information, see the Guide to Finding Market Research Reports in Business Source Premier

If you have any questions about finding Datamonitor reports, please ask Allison (3266), Ciaran (7166) or Israel (7167) for help.

EPPI: Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801 - 1922

Are you doing a research that would require the use of parliamentary papers prior to 1922? If so did you know that some of the British Parliamentary papers on Ireland are available for free on the web? Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland (EPPI) 1801 - 1922 has a collection of some significant papers on the history of the State. EPPI is a bibliographic and full text database containing references of British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland: the database has 15,000 references – of which 10,000 are full text. Content of EPPI comes from the University of Southampton's unique Ford Collection of Official Publications and is available at: http://www.eppi.ac.uk/eppi/digbib/home

EndNote Training in February

Two EndNote training sessions will take place in February organised by the Staff Development Office and presented by Library Staff.

1)Introduction to Endnote takes place on Wednesday 11th February
2)Getting Even More from EndNote on Wednesday 25th February.

Time: 2.30pm to 4.00pm

Venue: Library Training Room, DIT Aungier Street

Further details are available at the following link:

http://intranet.dit.ie/training/events/february2009.html

To book a place on either course email staff.training@dit.ie or gabrielle.deegan@dit.ie

Academic Search Premier now available

The HEA Irel Project has funded access to the Academic Search Premier database for 2009. It is now available on the library website at http://www.dit.ie/library/databases/
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals - more than 3,700 of which are peer-reviewed.

This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including computer studies, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, art & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.