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