Order your short loan books for Semester 1

If you want to get books for the short loan collection in time for the new semester, can you order them as  soon as possible using our online order form for the Business School?

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety online

The IOSH’s ‘Policy and Practice in Health and Safety’ is now available online through Ingenta. You can access it through the Library’s Journals A-Z or through http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iosh/pphs.

2 years on – Business Blog questionnaire!

It’s almost two years since The Business Blog was set up. And it’s time  for a review! I want to get a sense of what you think of the blog, so I’d really appreciate it if you could fill in a short questionnaire on it. It’s in the Surveymonkey link I’ve circulated in an email to all DCUBS staff through the Business School mailing list. Just click on  the link and it’ll open up. It should only take a couple of minutes to complete.

I’ll report back on the findings!

New e-book: Boddy on Management

David Boddy’s Management: An introduction is the latest addition to our e-book collection. It’s the 4th edition from 2007. You can access it in our catalogue. The print version is also available, and you’ll find details in the catalogue as well.

Have e-books reached a critical mass?

There’s an interesting article in today’s Financial Times (29 July) about Amazon’s new Kindle (‘Amazon rolls out new version of e-reader‘ by David Gelles and Kenneth Li – NB: restrictions on access to FT.com – available on Nexis from 30 July at latest).

While not directly addressing academic publishing, I think there are two important points in the article which are of interest to us:

• E-reader devices are becoming cheaper all the time ($139 for a wi-fi version of Kindle according to the FT article). This should ultimately make it easier for e-books to catch on in the student population;
• There is still resistance at publisher level and fears that e-books “will eat into their margins” (FT article). This resistance also exists at academic publishing level where there can still be a considerable delay between the print publication of a new edition of a student text book, and it’s availability online.

What can we do for you?

Notwithstanding publisher concerns, the market for student e-books and online research monographs is still expanding. Whenever you put in an order for multiple copies of student texts, we automatically investigate e-book options. However, if you are interested in any particular titles that you want as an e-book (or indeed collections of research monographs in databases!), please tell us. We can order individual e-books without any problem. Of course online packages cost more, but we can still look into them.