Free WIFI spots in Dublin

We just thought we'd relay this info on an interesting service from Dublin City Council: there are now free WIFI spots all over the city, you can see where here: http://www.dublincity.ie/Business/DublinFreeWiFi/DublinFreeWiFi/Pages/DublinFreeWiFi.aspx

Kaplan Financial Knowledge Bank

Kaplan have recently launched a Financial Knowledge Bank, which provides free access to hundreds of pages of accountancy knowledge. Modelled on Wikipedia, it has well-developed search capabilities, allowing users to explore a wide variety of accountancy topics. Ideal for student seeking to understand a topic from scratch, or just needing a quick reminder. This looks like an interesting resource for students doing accountancy or finance modules.

Kaplan Financial Knowledge Bank

Trial: Credo Reference

Another resource trial for DBS Library users: Credo Reference is an online reference resource providing full-text online versions of nearly 1200 published reference works from more than 70 publishers in every major subject, including general and subject dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases. Plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature. The trials consists of all resources in the General Reference collection as well as the Business Subject collection (so science, Shakespeare, law and literature may only be a bit of alliterative hyperbole) You know the score: on-campus only. This post will be edited to contain the trial end date Credo Reference

SPSS sessions for BUSINESS students

In the coming months, the following SPSS sessions are scheduled:

Foundation SPSS - Wednesday 13th Feb. 3-5 PM CH 2.2
Foundation SPSS - Wednesday 13th March 3-5 PM CH 2.2
Foundation SPSS - Wednesday 3rd April 3-5 PM CH 2.2

Advanced SPSS - Wednesday 20th Feb. 3-5 PM CH 2.2
Advanced SPSS - Wednesday 20th March 3-5 PM CH 2.2
Advanced SPSS - Wednesday 10th April 3-5 PM CH 2.2

Thesis binding tips

Here are the details of two thesis binders:

The Thesis Centre in Dublin 2: http://www.thesiscentre.ie/

Duffy Bookbinders in Dublin 1: http://www.duffybookbinders.com/thesis-binding.html

Trial madness continues: Passport GMID

We're pleased to announce a 30 day trial of Euromonitor's Passport GMID, a global market information database and analysis tool containing comprehensive data and reports across all industries, countries and consumers. Subscribers use the system to support a wide range of business functions and academic research projects:

• Industry analysis
• Export and market entry strategies
• Trend monitoring
• Company analysis
• Country profiling
• Consumer and household profiling
• Lifestyle analysis
• Modelling and forecasting
• General business reference

A Passport GMID subscription includes:

• Millions of internationally comparable market statistics on industries countries and consumers
• 1,000s of full text market reports, company reports and country reports
• Expert Euromonitor analyst comment on emerging industry trends, country trends and consumer trends
• Powerful data analysis functions allowing users to customise data for specific needs

This is a trial, so it's only available on campus and there's no downloading. The trial ends Friday 15th February Passport GMID

Win a €100 'one4all' voucher by filling in the Library Survey 2013

Fill in this year's Library survey to give us your feedback on our services, and be entered into the draw to win a €100 'one4all' voucher!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DBS_Library_Survey_2013 

Don't miss your chance, click on the link below or use the QR code!

And more trials

We've gone trial-mad at library towers (and we're not finished yet). Our Academic Complete ebook trial is extended until the end of January. Remember ebrary from November? Scholarly e-book database? Read these online or download either chapters (40 pages maximum) as imaged PDFs (so no cutting and pasting) or as Adobe Digital Editions format documents? Of course you remember. And you also remember that you need download the free Adobe Digital Editions software before you can use this format. You also remember that and you can't read these on your Kindle, but you'll be able to read them on most other devices. We never did add them to the library catalogue, but if we do purchase any titles we'll add them to the library catalogue. I'll just confirm the link for ebrary shortly.

Until 9th February - a two week extension we also have a trial of JustCite, "an innovative legal citator", or, in other words a legal research platform brought to you by the creators of Justis. It's a a legal search engine, with built-in citation index functionality, that focuses on case law and legislation from common law jurisdictions around the world. I imagine it will be very useful to you if you're a law student.

As ever, terms and conditions apply - which means ebrary and JustCite are only available on campus.

 Edit *** The ebrary link As ever your feedback is greatly appreciated

New Year New Trial; HeinOnline

Until February 14th, we have HeinOnline on trial. This is a legal information source with a bias towards US legislation. Its content includes a large number of law journals also contains the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more. Access, as ever with database trials, is restricted to on-campus only.

Dawsonera and Apple devices

A Happy New Year to all our readers. You young people are starting to use tablet devices more frequently, and some of you have always used Apples. If you use an iPad or a Mac and want to download ebooks from Dawsonera, please bear in mind the following: Macs and iPads come with a free PDF reader which unfortunately can't handle the peculiar type of pdfs used by Dawsonera. To read Dawsonera PDFs on your iPad, download this from iTunes To read them on your Mac, make sure that you have Adobe Reader as your default PDF reader. There should be no problem reading them online however

Happy New year!

All the Library staff wish you the very best of year 2013!