Site of the Month

February - LexisNexis News & Business (follow the appropriate links)
The library subscribes to LexisNexis News & Business. This LexisNexis database provides access to full-text online legal, news and business information services with 2 billion documents gathered from 28,000 sources. Coverage includes: Irish newspapers ; Irish and International Companies 18,600 News and Business sources from around the world. Thus Nexis News is a substantial resource with powerful search features. Articles found can be downloaded in various formats including MS Word and PDF. For more information, contact the library.

Video showing how to find and download an article
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Previous Sites of the Month
February - slideshare.net View and download online presentations from slideshare.net (or upload your own),
December - Flickr
Add images to your presentations and handouts using Flickr, the online photo management and sharing application
November - OpenLearn
The OpenLearn website gives free access to course materials from The Open University. Areas include study skills, engineering, maths, science, IT, business, law, and languages. These can be hyperlinked to or downloaded, adapted and embedded in your Blackboard site.
October - The Common Craft Show
A good source of short videos, including topics such as wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, twitter, RSS and more.

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