Euromonitor webinar on ‘Global drinking habits’

Euromonitor International are running a webinar on global drinking habits on Thursday, 25 February 2010 at 15:00. Three members of their global beverages research team will ‘examine the dynamics of branded packaged beverages’. If you want more details, or to register for this free event, click here.

‘European Employment Review’ now available through XpertHR

Our access to the EER is now mediated through the XpertHR intelligence service. If you want to access EER articles from 2007 to date, you’ll have to follow a few simple steps:

1. Do a title search in the A-Z of journals;
2. When you retrieve EER, click on “DCU Library Username/Password Titles”;
3. Click on the EER link and enter the Username/Password details in the Subscriber Login fields on the XpertHR home page;
4. Go to the “Our Sources” link, scroll down to the EER link and click on “View the electronic European Employment Review archive”. This will display the EER archive from 2007 to the present.

We are currently setting up similar access to other key full text titles available through XpertHR (‘Employment Law Bulletin’, ‘Employment Review’ and ‘Pay & Benefits Bulletin’). I’ll update this post when the titles are added to our A-Z.

‘XpertHR’ – a major database for HR practitioners

You can now access the human resources intelligence service, XpertHR, through our databases list. XpertHR enables you to search a diverse range of HR, employment and legal material, including key periodicals, news, surveys, analysis and case law from specialist IRS and LexisNexis Butterworths publications.

You can get full text from 2007 to the present to the ‘Employment Law Bulletin’, ‘Employment Review’, ‘European Employment Review’ and ‘Pay & Benefits Bulletin’. For an overview of the full range of content see the Our Sources link on the home page.

To access this resource you’ll need to enter the username and password which appear after you click on the XpertHR link on the databases list above.

Order books for your research or teaching interests!

A quick reminder for any of you who might have some time during the Inter-Semester break to get some book orders in. Just enter the essential details into our online order form and submit it to the Business Librarian. We would hope to have the books on the shelf ready for borrowing  around 6 weeks from their order.

New Library article up on DORAS

You may have come across some of our short video guides on how to use Library databases – see for example the Business Source Premier [Easy guide] link on our E-Journals Databases list. We have used Camtasia and Screentoaster screencasting software to produce Library clips like those for BSP.

Jack Hyland, our Research Support Librarian, and I have written an article on our experiences with this software, and how it compares to the many video tutorials produced by database providers themselves.

The article is called “Video killed the ‘PDF’ star: taking information resource guides online”. It was published in Sconul Focus recently, and if you want to consult it you’ll find it on DORAS.