Tuesday, 15 January 2013

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

Friday, 11 January 2013

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

Monday, 7 January 2013

Happy New year!

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


Friday, 14 December 2012

Christmas break closure: reminder

DBS Facilities will be closed from Friday 21st Dec. until Tuesday 1st Jan. inclusive but Aungier Street building will be open 9.00-18.00 on Thursday 27th Dec., Fri. 28th Dec. and Mon. 31st Dec.

The two libraries will close on Thursday 20th Dec. at 17.00 and will re-open on Wednesday 2nd Jan. at 9.00 for AS Library, and 9.30 for DS Library.


Note as well that the two libraries will be open 11.00-17.00 on Sudnay 6th January.

Happy Holidays all!
(check the full schedule of opening hours here on the Library website)

Reminder re: Sunday opening

Dear students, remember that we are open this coming Sunday, Dec. 16th 11.00-17.00 and Sunday 6th Jan. 11.00-16.00.
Full opening hours are available here on the Library website.

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Dawsonera e-book - outage on Sat. 8th Dec. 2012

On Saturday 8th December 2012, our e-book provider Dawsonera will be performing an essential upgrade on their web service and this will result in an outage between 10am and 6pm that day.

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Good luck to our ACCA students!

All the Library Staff wishes the very best of luck to all students taking ACCA exams in the coming days.

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Winter exams 2012-2013 timetables

Your Winter exams 2012-2013 timetables are now available via the student intranet, under the ‘Timetable’ section: the 'Exam timetables' page can be displayed by clicking on the link on the left-hand side of the screen at http://www.dbs-students.com/Timetables/Default.aspx