Quick guide to Harvard referencing

The Library has produced a Quick guide to Harvard style of referencing. It is based on the existing Library guide with some minor additions and amendments (e.g. revised rules for journals, newspapers and ebooks).

Not all sources are covered in this quick guide.  Where you need information on other sources, you should consult the original full length Citing and referencing guide.

The quick guide is intended as an interim measure. We will be producing a completely revised guide for the academic year 2010/11. The revised edition will have comprehensive coverage of information sources.  We welcome feedback on the interim quick guide.

Innovation Dublin 2009 – entrepreneurship and urban life!

Thanks to Sarah Ingle for drawing the Business Blog’s attention to Innovation Dublin’s week-long festival of events of interest to entrepreneurs, students and researchers. The events take place from Wednesday, 14 October to Tuesday, 20 October in various library, educational, cultural and public locations around the City! For more information, visit the Innovation Dublin website.

Attention academics and researchers – Book orders for 2009-10

If you are concentrating on research activities in Semester 1 and want to get more research monographs in your field into the Library collection, you are invited to put orders in to the Library. All you have to do is put the essential details into our online order form and send it to the Business Librarian. In the normal course of events, books should be on the shelves around 6 weeks after the original order.

Short loan orders for Semester 1 – Final call!

A final reminder for lecturers who still wish to order in some core texts for Semester 1 business modules. Although any orders you send in now won’t be on the shelves for the beginning of semester, the average 6-week turnaround time means it may still be possible to get short loan items on the shelves by the end of October.

If you still want to order, please do so without delay using our online form.

Overviews of business information resources

Over the past year, The Business Blog has been posting a number of thematic mini-guides. These overviews bring together subscribed and free information resources from diffuse locations. The idea is to provide a well-grounded jumping-off point for particular types of research.

Here is a full list of these overviews:

Business news — Classic articles — Company information –
Country reports — Discovery tools — Irish Times archives –
Market research — Statistics & data — Theses & dissertations.

We hope to add more resource guides over time. If you have any ideas on what you’d like to see, we’d be delighted if you could post a Comment below or email the Business Librarian.