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  • Hosted by ProQuest
ABI/INFORM contains a broad array of business information, from scholarly journals and dissertations, to company, industry and market focused trade news. ABI/INFORM features the latest news from top sources like the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and The Economist and is widely recommended as an excellent source for all business disciplines and courses. Besides providing coverage of emerging issues in the marketplace, ABI/INFORM also provides valuable historical perspective, with journals and other material dating back to the early 1900s. Test
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This database includes hard-to-find local and regional business publications, including McClatchey Tribune titles, with news about local companies, analysis, information on local markets and more. It also allows users to research employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies and other topics from a local and regional perspective.
  • Hosted by ProQuest
This database is one of the most comprehensive business databases on the market. It includes in-depth coverage for thousands of publications, most of which are available in full text and the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels.
  • Hosted by ProQuest
This database includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends and other topics. With ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals and many others.
  • Hosted by EBSCO
Academic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of the most valuable full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, this database is the leading source of peer-reviewed, full-text for STM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities. This scholarly collection offers unmatched coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
  • Hosted by ProQuest
This database brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.
  • Hosted by ACM
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.
  • Hosted by EBSCO
This full-text psychology database contains articles from highly-cited and landmark journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group.
  • Hosted by EBSCO
PsycBOOKS, APA Books E-Collections, these encompass book content in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, neuroscience, and physiology, among others. Titles are grouped into collections by copyright year.
  • Hosted by EBSCO
PsycEXTRA, is a gray literature database that provides access to current sources for cutting-edge research and information before or outside of the peer review process. Bibliographic and full-text records are available for document types such as conference papers, grant information, policy statements, consumer brochures, newsletters, pamphlets, popular magazines and more. It has over 264,000 records covering psychology and interrelated fields.
  • Hosted by EBSCO
APA PsycInfo has over 3.5 million records covering psychology and its reach through fields like education, neuroscience, business, law, and more.
  • Hosted by EBSCO
PsycTESTS, serves as a repository for the full text of psychological tests and measures, as well as a rich source of structured information about the tests. A wide variety of test types are included in the database, including achievement and aptitude tests, intelligence tests, tests of cognitive functioning, occupational tests, personality tests, and so on
  • Hosted by ProQuest
This database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. Find information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.

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  • Hosted by ProQuest
  • Available in Discovery
This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
  • Hosted by EBSCO
Business Source Ultimate works for your students like a solid business plan – it offers an unprecedented wealth of peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business that spark discussion on future developments and changes in the business world. Business students learn about accounting, finance, banking, marketing, management and much more with one comprehensive package that also includes full text of journals found in key subject indexes. In addition to accessing essential full-text journals, business students can delve into case studies, country economic reports and company profiles, as well as interviews with executives and analysts – the key players whose roles they are studying to fill.

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  • Hosted by The Case Centre
The Case Centre is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the case method of learning. Its collection of management case studies and journal article reprints is a unique and accessible resource of teaching materials.

Staff only resource

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  • Open Access
  • Hosted by Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

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  • Hosted by EBSCO
This collection offers more than 24,000 eBook titles selected to assist students and scholars with various business research, special project and entrepreneurial needs, and to help students understand general business concepts.
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  • Hosted by EBSCO

Education Source Ultimate is the world's largest and most comprehensive full-text research database designed for education students, researchers, professionals and policymakers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes a range of topics including education ethics, educational technology, literacy, research methodology and more. With access to 2,113 active full-text education journals, it is the largest database in the Education Source family.

  • Hosted by Emerald Insights
Provides online access to all the journals published by Emerald Publishing (formerly MCB). Includes journals in management and library and information services journals, as well as engineering, applied science and technology journals.
  • Hosted by ProQuest
ProQuest Entrepreneurship delivers a unique and powerful database collection - designed to arm entrepreneurs with vital resources for developing and researching their ideas while providing valuable insight to help progress and grow their product or service.
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  • Hosted by Sage

A self-directed learning course with separate modules for staff and students, with certificate of completion. There are 4 modules in each course of 30 minutes duration, which can be taken at the learner’s own pace. 

Login requires use of either your student or staff email address. If you have any queries please contact the library directly.

  • Hosted by EBSCO
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
The library creates and maintains the past examination papers of the College, which date back to c. 1992; all examination papers (Semester and End of Term) are put on the college website and can be searched, saved, printed or viewed by registered users. Repeat Examination Papers: Historically the College did not publish repeat examination papers in the database. However, since September 2007 the Library has published these papers. Therefore repeat papers from Semesters 1 & 2 of the 2006/7 academic term onwards are available through the database.

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FT.com offers full text, in-depth analysis of economics and financial markets from the Financial Times online-one of the world's leading business publishers.

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  • Hosted by EBSCO
This ground-breaking collection includes the complete catalog of e-books
published by Harvard Business Review Press.
Health & Safety Review (HSR) is a subscription magazine providing comprehensive coverage of occupational health and safety and environmental issues as they affect the workplace including: asbestos; bullying; chemical hazards; EHS legislation, employer liability claims; HSA and EPA prosecutions; manual handling; noise; passive smoking; radiation; stress; vibration and waste.

ACCESSIBLE ONLY ON-CAMPUS, BASED ON IP ADDRESS. Please contact the library@ncirl.ie for additional information on accessing this title

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IEEE Xplore
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  • Hosted by IEEE
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  • Hosted by IEEE

Featuring content from IEEE, as well as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) contains one-third of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computer science. IEL provides access to technology’s most trusted journals, conference proceedings, and standards.

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.
Industrial Relations News (IRN) is a weekly subscription magazine providing comprehensive coverage of all industrial and employee relations issues. IRN is an independent publication without links to any employer, trade union or government bodies. It is published electronically and in paper form. News, analysis and features on all current industrial/employee developments.

ACCESSIBLE ONLY ON-CAMPUS, BASED ON IP ADDRESS. Please contact the library@ncirl.ie for additional information on accessing this title.
  • Hosted by ProQuest
References to journal articles, books, reviews, and selected chapters for international material on anthropology, cultural studies, economics, education, ethnology and ethnography, political science, and sociology, 1951 to present.
  • Hosted by ProQuest
  • Available in Discovery
International Newsstream provides the most recent news content from outside of the U.S. and Canada with archives that stretch back decades. The comprehensive collection features newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and digital-only news sites in full-text format. Over 800 of the world's top news sources such as The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications are included in the collection. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform.

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  • Hosted by ProQuest
The database features thousands of analyst reports covering over 3,000 global companies and all industries. Derived from Morgan Markets – which is J.P. Morgan’s exclusive information for key clients and investors – these reports are made available to academic users for education and research purposes.

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  • Hosted by Springer Link
The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science.

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The catalogue can be used to search for books, DVDs, journals and other material held in the library.
Norma eReseach is a digital archive of theses, research and enterprise output produced by National College of Ireland students and staff.

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  • Hosted by ProQuest
  • Available in Discovery

O'Reilly Learning is a platform that offers access to ebooks and multimedia learning programmes to give real skills in areas of IT, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Project Management and more.

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The most comprehensive business offering, comprising all content from: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collection; Business Market Research Collection; and Entrepreneurship Database.
Ebook Central is designed with mobile in mind. Access the site from your tablet or phone, and download ebooks for offline reading. You need credible content from authoritative, scholarly sources. Ebook Central delivers, with breadth and depth of ebooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers.
  • Hosted by EBSCO
Comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in behavioural characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology and obversational and experimental methods.

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  • Hosted by EBSCO
Corporate libraries that purchase Business Source Corporate or Corporate ResourceNet (CRN) will also receive access to Regional Business News.

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  • Hosted by Sage
SAGE Business Cases brings together multiple collections of cases studies covering all areas of business. These cases bring business to life – inspiring researchers to develop their own best practices and prepare for professional success.
  • Hosted by Sage
Contains more than 1,100 journals in the social sciences, humanities, and life sciences
  • Hosted by Sage

SAGE Research Methods is an online resource for anyone doing research or learning how to do research. With more than 1,300 books, reference works, journal articles, and videos from SAGE’s world-renowned research methods list, SAGE Research Methods provides information on writing a research question, conducting a literature review, choosing a research method, collecting and analyzing data, and writing up the findings. SAGE Research Methods’ coverage spans the full range of research methods used in the social and behavioral sciences, plus a wide range of methods commonly used in science, technology, medicine, and the humanities.

  • Hosted by Elsevier
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books.​
  • Hosted by Elsevier
SciVal provides access to the research performance of thousands of research institutions and their associated researchers from 231 nations worldwide—so you can visualize research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop strategic partnerships, identify and analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports.

This is for NCI Faculty & Staff Only.
  • Hosted by Elsevier
Scopus is a leading bibliographic database offering journal articles and book chapters from over 21,500 journals and more than 130,000 books.
  • Hosted by Statista Inc
  • Available in Discovery

Statista is a statistics platform, with access to over 1.5 million data sets (adding up to 500 extra per day) with revenue forecasts from 2015 to 2020 on over 400 industries. Also many thousands of downloadable reports, studies and dossiers.

Statista provides huge breadth coverage of data relating to most subject areas. It is an intuitive tool for researching quantitative data and statistics aggregating from 18,000 sources and on 75,000 different topics.

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VLeBooks offers full text online access to eBooks to staff and students of the National College. eBooks are selected individually according to course lists and demand. This database replaces the content formally offered by DawsonEra ebooks platform. Please note: Students are limited to accessing 5 eBooks per day from VLeBooks and can have no more than 2 eBooks open at any one time.

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  • Hosted by WARC
Warc.com is an online service offering advertising best practice, evidence and insights from the world's leading brands. Warc helps clients grow their businesses by using proven approaches to maximise advertising effectiveness
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