Wilson OmniFile - New Platform from Feb. 1, 2012

Summary of message from EBSCOPublishing. Wilson Web (Wilson OmniFile) is moving to the EBSCOhost platform.

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As has been communicated several times recently, WilsonWeb will not be available as of February 1, 2012. 

[...] There are some databases that will no longer be made available, and as such, customers will receive automatic upgrades to the more comprehensive versions, as they become available.  For example, customers subscribing to Book Review Digest will automatically receive Book Review Digest Plus, and customers of Education Index will be upgraded to Education Abstracts.  There are several other examples which can be found in the “EBSCOhost Transition Plan” document located at www.ebscohost.com/wilson.
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In TCD, the A-Z journal list has been updated and the MARC records for journals will be updated around the 20th of January. The MARC records for databases have been updated.

Wilson Omni - New platform

OmniFILE Full Text Mega is now being made available on EBSCOhost.

This will run in parallel to the existing Wilson access until the end of this month, January 2012. At this point access will be made solely available via EBSCOhost.

Brill: new platform.

Brill has announced Brill Online Reference Works and Brill Online Bibliographies – two dedicated platforms for Brill’s reference and bibliographical research tools.

Brill Online Reference Works
Brill Online Bibliographies
These two new platforms will replace the current platform.

Up to, and until, January 31, 2012 holdings can be accessed on both the new platforms and on the old.

Please note, TCD Library does not have subscriptions for all resources on the Brill platforms. The new links will be added to our subscription databases in the Library catalogue as they become available. See New Jacoby for example. The link to the old platform will be available until the end of the month.

(Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences.)

Free Irish Environmental and Natural Sciences databases

See Michael Viney's Another Life column in the Irish Times, Satuday, Dec. 31, 2011, p.6, for a comprehensive list and description of some excellent free Irish databases.

New Proquest/Dialog platform (former Dialog/Datastar databases)

The Education databases: AUEI, BREI, ERIC, and the medical databases formerly on the Dialog/Datastar platform, IPA, BNI, and DIFT are now all available on the new ProQuest Dialog Datastar platform.

The Dialog/Datastar platform was taken down at the end December 2011 and is no longer available.

Irish Traditional Music Archive: sound recordings

The Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) has many sound recordings available online. A Christmas Collection, compiled as an Advent Calendar is online there at the moment.

Irish Traditional Music Archive: online Advent Calendar

From the ITMA site: New tranches of sample sound recordings are made available on ITMA website every two months for the personal enjoyment and interest of users. They represent only a small proportion of the sound recordings of Irish music held for public access in the Archive, and are chosen to indicate the variety of materials available. They may not be used for commercial purposes.

Irish Traditional Music Archive - new online catalogue

The Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) / Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann, (73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2) is a national reference archive and resource centre for the traditional song, instrumental music and dance of Ireland. It is a public not-for-profit facility which is open, free of charge, to anyone with an interest in the contemporary and historical artforms of Irish traditional music.

You can search ITMA's online catalogue, which currently reflects its holding of commercially published materials (sound recordings, printed materials & visual materials) and photographs.Thecatalogue now contains some 55,000 catalogue records. These records cover (in brief format) the currentITMA holdings of

• commercial sound recordings (cylinders, 78s, SPs, EPs, LPs, cassettes, and CDs);

• printed materials (song & instrumental music collections, studies, tutors, theses, reference works, sheet music, ballad sheets, chapbooks, periodicals, contextual publications, and some 2,500 festival and event programmes);

• visual materials (photographic prints, postcards and other still images, and commercial VHSs and DVDs).

More detailed records, including contents, are available in the Archive.

New material will continue to be systematicallyadded to the online catalogue.

Not yet included in the online catalogue are non-commercial field and private recordings, articles from periodicals,offprints, manuscripts, artefacts, digital photographs, the remaining festivaland event programmes, and library ephemera such as posters and leaflets.

Muchof this material however is covered by the ITMA in-house catalogue which isfreely available to visitors.