Change of Venue: WOK Training, Thursday 30th. April 2009

Please note that, in response to the large number of interested attendees, the venue for the Web of Knowledge training [see below] has been changed from the Aungier Street Library Training Room to Room 4-079 - [Lecture Theatre] in Aungier Street. Course will begin at 9.30am.

Web of Knowledge Training April 30th.

Guillaume Rivalle and Emma Swan – customer trainers from Thomson Reuters will present a training session on Web of Knowledge in Training Room 1, Aungier St Library on April 30th starting at 9.30 am. Training will cover Journal Citation Reports as well as searching across the 3 citation indexes – Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and Science. Training is open to academic and library staff as well as research students and will include specific training for researchers on citation impact factors, how to improve them, the h-index etc.

If you would like to attend please e-mail anne.ambrose@dit.ie as places are limited

Plagiarism Interview - Professor Ferdinand Von Prondzynski

Last week Myles Dungan talked to Professor Ferdinand Von Prondzynski (President of DCU) about plagiarism on the Today with Pat Kenny show.

If you missed the programme, it is available as a podcast on RTE's website.

The interview also includes a discussion about the re-introduction of third-level fees.

New Business Database - FAME

The library recently acquired a subscription to FAME, a business database that provides financial information on Irish and British companies.

FAME allows you to find financial information and ratios for a specific company, or to search for and create a list of companies that meet your criteria (geographic region and number of employees, for example) and to display the results in a variety of customisable formats

FAME should prove a valuable resource for accounting and finance researchers and students, and for Hothouse students.

FAME is available from the library’s databases page at http://www.dit.ie/library/databases/ and from the Business and Economics Subject Gateway at http://www.dit.ie/library/subjects/businessandeconomics/.