Monday 28 September 2009

Database trial - Safari Books Online

Gosh, is it that time of year already? Welcome to Dublin Business School, or if you're unfortunate enough to have been here before, welcome back! The library starts off the academic year in style with a month long trial of Safari Books Online. Safari, to steal from the content description in the html of their home page (huh?) is " is an on-demand, digital library that provides access to thousands of technology, creative and business books, training videos and expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers, like O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, InformIT, Sams, Microsoft Press, Apress, Manning, Talented Pixie and many more". In simpler language: we have a month's trial of full text ebooks. I suppose of relevance to DBS students (and staff) are the IT and business books. Have a look at them by pointing your browser here. I suspect that it will only work on-campus, but I'll verify that later. Take a look, because if you don't, then we can't really justify trying to purchase a full subscription next year.

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