NEW Library, Careers and Student Services Newsletter

The latest edition of the Library, Careers & Students Services (LCSS) Newsletter is now out and you can find it here.
This month issue includes contributions from Library, Careers and Student Services staff and a special article about the Library at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, by our library intern Jane Fehily.
Features include book reviews, staff quiz, DVD recommendations, info about LinkedIn and much more!

So check it out and give us your feedback too at library@dbs.ie!

Athens

I've spoken before about how to access the library's electronic resources. Having looked at it, you may think, correctly, that it's a little complicated and that's fair enough.  A simpler way to access the library's resources is to get an Athens account.  Athens is an access management system that provides seamless, one-click access to the library's electronic resources.  To acquire an account, contact the library (by email) with your student number and your course code. Accounts are created in bulk, once per day, in the late afternoon.  Please don't mail the library first thing in the morning and then phone to complain 30 minutes later that you haven't received your account details.

When your account is created, you will receive an email with the subject line 'Your Athens account has been created' (or similar).  Follow the instructions in the mail to activate your account.  Your username is dbs followed by your password.  Hence if your student number is 1234567, your Athens username is dbs1234567.  When you activate your account, you get to choose a password, please make it memorable!

If you forget your password, you can go to this link

Forgotten Athens password

Enter your Athens username, (don't forget the dbs before your student number), the email associated with the account (the email account to which the initial Athens notification email was sent) and click ‘submit’.  The Athens people will send you an email that will contain a link to a page where you can reset your password.  If you have any difficulties, contact the library.

Library Newsletter - November

The latest edition of the ever-popular library newsletter is now available for your edification and entertainment. This month’s issue includes contributions from Jane Buggle, Joan Colvin, Fiona Cashell, Carol Clifford, David Hughes, Emilie Jost, Alex Kouker, Louise Butler Norris, Alanah O’Reilly, Caitriona McGrattan, Tony Peoples and a special article about the Library at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, by our library intern Jane Fehily. Features include book reviews, staff quiz, DVD recommendations, info about LinkedIn and much more! How can you possibly resist?

iPhone and Android Apps for EBSCO

There's an App for practically everything these days, so it's no surprise to see database vendors get in on the act.  EBSCO have recently come up with Apps for the iPhone and Android phones.  The free App (it has to be free really, doesn't it?) will allow users to search premium EBSCOhost database content.  The App allows users to:

• Choose which databases to search
• Limit results to full text or peer reviewed
• Search a library's catalog
• Sort by relevance or date
• Retrieve full text results in HTML and/or PDF formats
• Save results for offline access at a later date
• Email results to self or others
• Automatically save the 25 most recent searches
• Cover flow display of results

The iPhone & Android app download link will be available at the bottom of EBSCOhost screens. Click the link and enter your email address in order to receive installation and authentication instructions.  These instructions consist of:

• Download App from iTunes / Android market (link in email)
• View the email on your smartphone and activate authentication key (link in email)

You must access the authentication link from your device. The activation link will expire in 24 hours. After activation the App should be keyed to those EBSCOhost databases available to DBS students   

Halloween - Bank holiday closure

 

For the October/Halloween bank holiday, please be aware that both libraries will be closed on Monday October 31^st 2011.

DBS buildings will be open as follow:

Castle House:
Open Saturday 29^th, Sunday 30^th and Monday 31^st 8:00 to 18:00

Aungier Street:
Open Saturday 29^th 8:00 to 18:00 
Closed Sunday 30^th and Monday 31^st

Dame Street:
Open Saturday 29^th 9:00 to 17:30
Closed Sunday 30^th and Monday 31^st

Balfe Street: 
Closed

Bow Lane: 

Closed

Aungier St library closure

There's been a wee spot of rain in the last while.  This has caused some water damage to the Aungier St library.  Nothing major, but it has necessitated closure of the library while we clean up.  The Dame St. library remains open however.  Also, because there's been a wee bit of disruption to road and rail transport, we have changed the due date of all books due back today and yesterday to the 26th October

Update: We're open!

Classes for Springboard Students

In addition to the regularly scheduled library classes, which are thoroughly recommended to all our students, we will be running some special classes specifically aimed at our new Springboard students.  Classes will be run twice weekly every week on Mondays and Thursdays between 1 and 2pm.  The Monday class, Aungier Street Room 1.2 will deal with academic writing and referencing (we can't stress enough how important proper referencing is to your academic writing).  The Thursday class, in Castle House 2.2 will help you search for information online.

These classes are drop-in - no booking required.      

Dawsonera again

On-campus, students don't need to login to Dawsonera to see e-books.  You do however have to login to print, download or save to favourites.  Don't get confused with login details! Below is the login screen:

To login with an Athens account, click the link next to Athens users.  To login with a Shibboleth account, click the link next to Shibboleth users (there are no DBS Shibboleth accounts).  To login directly, students should enter their student number as their username and their date of birth in format dd/mm/yyyy (DO. NOT FORGET. THE. SLASHES) as their password.  Students should not enter their Athens accounts details here, as they won't work.  I will confuse you some more, another time  

Freud and PEP Archive

In the spirit of "Reduce Reuse Recycle!", here's a classic posting from 2009. 

   Here's a tip from Marie, our Acquistions librarian, on finding Freud
   standard editions in PEP Archive:

When I was looking for a volume of Freud’s standard edition on EBSCO recently I found a way to find all the chapters for a particular volume of Freud’s complete works together in one search. Just select the PEP Archive database on EBSCO and in the search box type the following:

BR “SE.***”
The BR stands for book records, the SE stands for standard edition, and then the number "***" is for the volume number so 002 for volume 2 and 010 for volume 10 and so on.

   Happy reading

Ah, as true today as it was then.

Accessing electronic resources and e-books

Following up from chatting about passwords, I'll briefly talk about how to access electronic resources via the library website - and e-books  The library pays a lot of money to purchase licences for electronic resources.  These resources provide access to bibliographic data and full-text for journal articles, newspaper articles, books, company, market sector and country reports and so on.  Our licences restrict who can see the material, so we have to use usernames and passwords.

Electronic Resources
On campus, go to the e-library page on the library website.  Go to the subscribed databases section and look at the instructions for each resource. 

Off-campus, access to most resources is through EBSCOHost Integrated Search (but here, I'll call it EBSCO)

You should be able to access EBSCO from the search box on the library home page, the advanced search page or the e-library page where you access individual databases.  If you are off-campus, you will need to login with your student number and date of birth, in format dd/mm/yyyy 

If you try to login to EBSCO from elsewhere, say for example, after searching for EBSCO on Google, it is possible that the EBSCO page won’t recognise your DBS login.  In this regard any error message that you see is important.  If you see error code 102, it means you are entering the wrong DBS username or password.  If you see error code 101, this means that the login page is not primed to accept DBS usernames and passwords, and therefore somehow, you've done something wrong!  If you see another error code, contact the library.

If you access EBSCO correctly, you will see the following on the login page:

Dublin Business School

Login with your student number and date of birth (in format dd/mm/yyyy). If you cannot login, please contact the library

If you do not see this on the login page, you will not be able to login to EBSCO

E-Books,
We purchase the vast majority of our e-books through Dawsonera.  On-campus you don't need a login  to see them.  Off-campus you will need a username and password.  Usernames and passwords have changed over time.  If you are new to DBS your username is your student number and your password is your date of birth in format dd/mm/yyyy (we try, though sometimes fail, to be consistent!).

There are two ways of finding out what e-books you can access. You can use the search/browse facilites on Dawsonera, or you search the library's online catalogue.  On the catalogue click the advanced button.  The third search box you see has the title 'Media type'.  In the dropdown menu, tick  the box next to E-books. In the search-term box, type your search-terms and away you go.

There is another way to access electronic resources, but I'm not going to write about that right now, other than to say that it's called Athens and you can look for details on the library blog or the e-library webpage (or even the next post down).