British Library Newspapers database training

What:
Training on the following databases:

• State Papers Online - Part One 1509-1603
• Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Newspapers (Burney Collection)
• Economist Historical Archive

When:

• Tuesday 16 December 2008 at 2 pm - 3.30pm

Who:

• Training provided by: Peter Foster, a Gale senior sales executive for Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
• Training provided for: Library, College Research Staff and other interested parties.

Where:

• South Training Room, Berkeley Library

Information on each of these electronic resources can be found on our databases page at http://www.tcd.ie/Library/resources/index.php
If you wish to attend please e-mail Clíona Ní Shúilleabháin

Newly acquired TCD Library e-resources

The latest listing of our new e-resources with details of their coverage is to be found on the Library Information Resouces page.

Newly acquired databases:
Oxford Music Online/Grove Music Online
State Papers Online (Part One 1509-1603)
British Biographical Archive Online
The Guardian/Observer Historical Archive
ScienceDirect Backfiles
19th Century British Library Newspapers
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection

Also
New subscriptions to:
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
ARTstor

The EIO database is on trial until Dec. 12th.

Irish interest - free access to archives of JMI

[Nov. 2008]

JMI: Journal of Music in Ireland has made its entire online archive available for free.

The resource, which can be accessed at http://www.thejmi.com/, comprises the complete back-catalogue of the magazine and contains hundreds of articles, interviews, reviews and listings.

The archive represents a unique record of Irish musical life since 2000. It is a valuable resource for musicians, composers, students, academics, journalists or anyone worldwide with a serious interest in Irish music.

Scarcely anything in the way of a riot …

The scrap of a sentence above comes from the Freeman's Journal […] and is part of a contemporary account of scenes at Donnybrook Fair in August 1838.

Trinity College Dublin was mentioned in the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle (1807):
An algebraical proof of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, [...], has been lately discovered by Francis Burke, A. B. a student in the University of Dublin. The discovery has been honoured with a distinguished premium from the Board of Trinity College.

These reports were both found in a set of two new databases purchased by the Library: The British Library Newspaper Collection. The Collection consists of two databases of primary source material, the 19th Century British Library Newspapers and the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.

Rev. Charles Burney (1757-1817) gathered London and provincial British newsletters and newspapers. His collection also contains material from the Americas, Europe and India. When bound, this material ran to more than 700 volumes. These have now been digitised and made available by the British Library, along with the 19th Century British Library Newspapers. This second database contains material (over 2 million newspaper pages, national and regional) from the collections held in the British Library and the National Library of Scotland.

To find these collections in TCD Library, search the Main (not Periodicals) Library online catalogue for British Library Newspapers or for either of the two database titles, 1. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection, and 2. Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers. These collections may also be accessed from the Databases section of the Library Website, Information Resources: Databases.

Irish Times Digital Archive: off campus access

There is a difference in how the Irish Times Digital Archive may be accessed off campus to the way most databases are reached. The instructions on how to do this are on the Library Website, Information Resources, Off-campus access page, see the relevant FAQ. You will need to input your username and password to see these instructions.

Another database which requires special instructions is Westlaw UK. These instructions are also to be found on the Off-campus access page.

The reason for this is that the databases mentioned are not compatible with EZproxy. EZproxy is not a server but a proxy-like system. It alters the URL and these databases cannot support this system.

EZproxy and access off campus: help page

Off campus access to TCD Library resources.

There is a list of frequently asked questions and their answers here.

These cover issues such as:
going via Google searches to accessing Library-subscribed full-text journals;
saving links in Favorites or Bookmarks to use off campus;
restoring links to Favorites or Bookmarks which haven't worked since the changeover to EZproxy.

EZproxy and Library Staff page

Message from Mark Brennan about accessing local staff pages:

We’ve had some queries from staff regarding access to the LStaff pages from home since the EZProxy system was introduced : click on this new link when Off-Campus:

http://www.tcd.ie/Library/LocalStaff/

Then use current username and network password, as with other EZProxy controlled pages.

If you want to bookmark this link (or put it in your Favorites) you must save the link BEFORE clicking on it.*

*Saving a link to Favorites or Bookmarks before opening link:

Internet Explorer
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Right-hand click on the link and select "Add to Favorites". Opposite the label:
"Create in", select "Favorites" or one of your own folders from the drop down menu. Click "Add".

Firefox
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Right-hand click on the link and select "Bookmark this Link ". Opposite the label:
"Folder", select "Unsorted Bookmarks" or one of your own folders from the drop down menu. Click "Done".

Top Ten most used MyiLibrary ebooks, Jan-Sept 2008

100 Medical Emergencies for Finals ; Radcliffe Publishing ; 9781857757477
No. of times consulted: 114

British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland ; Cambridge University Press ; 9780511121722
No. of times consulted: 108

Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide ; Taylor & Francis ; 9780203482889
No. of times consulted: 77

Good Research Guide, The: For Small Scale Social Research Projects. Open UP Study Skills.
Open University Press ; 9780335229680
No. of times consulted: 75

Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) ; BRILL ; 9789004139596
No. of times consulted: 56

Handbook of Child Psychology, Volume Four: Child Psychology in Practice ; Wiley ; 9780470050552
No. of times consulted: 41

How to Get a PhD: A Handboook for students and their supervisors ; Open University Press ; 9780335227457
No. of times consulted: 40

How to Write a Thesis ; Open University Press ; 9780335226597
No. of times consulted: 35

Mayes’ Midwifery: A Textbook for Midwives ; Elsevier Publishing ; 9780702026164
No. of times consulted: 34

PhD Application Handbook. The ; Open University Press ; 9780335224241
No. of times consulted: 31.


The following have been consulted once only between Jan-Oct 2008:

Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason
Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy
Applied Statistics: Using SPSS, STATISTICA, MATLAB and R
Art of Crime, The: Plays and Films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet
Birth of the Clinic, The: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945, A. Blackwell Companions to Art History.
Companion to the Philosophy of Education, A
Ethics, Law and Society: Volume III
Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 10, Assessment Psychology
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 3, Biological Psychology
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 4, Experimental Psychology
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 5, Personality and Social Psychology
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 6, Developmental Psychology
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 8, Clinical Psychology
Human Identity and Bioethics
Midwives Book, The: Or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered
Reconceiving the Renaissance
Reflective Practice: A Guide for Nurses and Midwives

ARTstor help wiki page

From September 2008 you can find Digital Library and OIV help documentation, as well as training materials and video demos all in one place — the ARTstor Help Wiki.

EZproxy and off campus access

Off campus access to the Irish Times Digital Archive is temporarily unavailable as the Irish Times system doesn't support EZproxy. We will have a work-around soon.
Newly purchased resources will be added to EZproxy as they arrive. Irish Newspaper Archive is to be added soon.
There is a list of FAQs on the Library website which deals with issues arising from the installation of the EZproxy middleware.
For example, details on how to access Westlaw UK are to be found here.
If you receive a query which isn't covered here, can you forward it either to me or Arlene for resolution? Thank you.

Ebooks and GEAC, Library OPAC

Ebook packages which HAVE MARC records for each title in the Library catalogue:
ACLS Humanities ebooks,
ECCO
Hein
LexisNexis
LWW Nursing
MOML
MyiLibrary
Past Masters

Ebook packages which DON’T have MARC records for the individual titles in GEAC (although there is a general record for the package in the catalogue):
LION
SAFARI
ORO (Oxford Reference Online) 250 books
SourceOECD
WWO (There may be title access for some of these via EEBO although the format of the EEBO ebook will be different to that in WWO.)

*New resources (record loading to be advised):
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) 800 titles.
MEMSO (Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online) 500 titles

ARTstor blog

For users of ARTstor - don't forget you can get news and archived announcements on the ARTstor blog

News from the Digital Humanities Observatory in Dublin

Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008) is now freely available online.

Irish Newspaper Archives - update on access

The problem with INA is at their end. In the meantime they have supplied us with a username and password to gain access. Please contact Cliona for this.

RSC E-book Collection

RSC E-book Collection is now available from our databases page. This resource provides access to more than 700 titles published between 1968-2008 and a further collection published in 2009.

MARC records will be uploaded to the Catalogue in due course.

New system of access to TCD eResources from off-campus locations

A new system for accessing TCD's eResources off campus has been launched. When College members are linking to an electronic resource from off campus they will be directed to a secure page to authenticate with their College username and network access password. See here for more details.

Most people won't need to change anything but if you had your home browser configured to use Proxy4, you will need to follow these instructions.

Irish Newspaper Archives

Connection to this database is unreliable at the moment. The problem is being investigated. Please continue to try and let me know if it fails to connect.

MyiLibrary ebooks

Records for MyiLibrary ebooks purchased through Oasis are being constantly added to the Library catalogue. They can be searched in the usual way, by author, title, etc. The whole list of MyiLibrary electronic books can be found by searching under author=MyiLibrary as well.

Irish Newspaper Archives

New website now available. See Library Databases page.

OvidSP and Wolters Kluwer - ATLA

Access now reinstated to ATLA on OvidSP platform

OvidSP and Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer / Silver Platter databases have been transferred to the OvidSP platform. I have various documents on searching from this platform. Please contact me if you want copies.
Awaiting update on access to ATLA.

IReL website launched

The Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) website provides information on the content of the Irish Research eLibrary initiative, as well as background, history, membership and latest news.

The IReL link on the TCD Library home page takes you to the IReL website. A list of all resources included under the initiative can be browsed on the site.

While this site can facilitate links to publishers' websites, the normal access point for fulltext access to journals and databases continues to be via the TCD Library website.

Arlene Healy is the TCD representative on the IReL Steering Group.

To coincide with the launch of the website, Fiona McGoldrick will be providing an IReL roadshow event at each of the member institutions. The TCD roadshow will take place on September 4th. The event will include a presentation on the history of IReL, the funding structure, resource selection, organisation, IReL survey results and usage analysis reports.

HeinOnline ebooks - records in Library catalogue

HeinOnline Legal Classics Library. Records for the ebooks in this collection have been loaded into the Library catalogue.

American Council of Learned Societies - ACLS - ebook database

ACLS contains more than 1,600 ebooks. These books are findable through the Library catalogue.

Blackwell Synergy has moved to Wiley InterScience

1.6 million articles from Blackwell journals were loaded onto Wiley InterScience over the last few days.

The full list of Wiley-Blackwell journals is at www.interscience.wiley.com

There is still some missing content from Blackwell. Full list of missing content is listed on Wiley's transition site .

More detailed account on transition from Wiley-Blackwell.

Blackwell Synergy moving to Wiley InterScience

Blackwell Synergy will become part of Wiley InterScience from June 30th/July 1st, 2008. The journals won't be available on the weekend of June 28th and 29th, whilst the database is migrating.

More details on how this move may affect you and your readers are available here.

LegalTrac (Gale) and LinkSource

LinkSource has been implemented on LegalTrac from the Gale group.

European Business ASAP (Gale) on Infotrac platform and LinkSource

LinkSource has now been implemented on the European Business ASAP database. The TCD icon appears whether there is full text available or not. Therefore, click on the reference or text box first for quickest access to an article.

Dialog's IPA, DIFT and LinkSource

LinkSource has been implemented on International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) and Drug Information Fulltext (DIFT)

JSTOR and LinkSource

LinkSource has been implemented on TCD's JSTOR databse.

Note re TCD LinkSource icon : The usual icon is not appearing on JSTOR. At the moment, the onscreen message reads: Trinity College Dublin provides links to articles through SFX and shows an SFX link button instead of our usual blue TCD button. JSTOR is in the process of developing this aspect of its service and its technical staff is currently working on updating the new JSTOR website to support customized buttons and link text for institutions. JSTOR expect to implement this feature in the next couple of months.

OpenURL-compliant links are for the titles to which JSTOR provides links to current issues on several publishers' sites. A list of these titles is available here.

International Medieval Bibliography (Brepols)

TCD link resolver LinkSource has now been implemented on the International Medieval Bibliography from Brepols.

TCD icon does not appear on the results screen. The icon appears on the bibliographic reference (2nd) screen, at the top.

Engineering Village (Elsevier)

The TCD link resolver LinkSource is now implemented on Elsevier's Engineering Village.

The TCD icon doesn't appear on the Search Result List but on clicking on Abstract or even on Detailed, the icon appears on the lower left hand side.

ARTstor instructional videos on youtube.com

ARTstor has uploaded a few instructional videos onto youtube which may be of some help.

How to set up an account:



and how to download images to a powerpoint presentation:

ERIC, AUEI, BREI and LinkSource

The following databases on the Dialog Datastar platform are now working with LinkSource:
Australian Education Index - 1979 to date (AUEI)
British Education Index - 1975 to date (BREI)
ERIC - 1966 to date (ERIC)

On journal article search results you will see the familiar blue tcd link resolver icon.

MyiLibrary ebooks

A reminder to all Subject Librarians to order your ebooks from MyiLibrary using Oasis as soon as you can. (The Sterling/Euro exchange rate is in our favour at the moment.) Start from here. If you don't have a note of your username and password, or need any other help please contact Cliona or Arlene. Titles already purchased can be accessed here

Thomson name change - FYI

Thomson Corporation has acquired Reuters and the name Thomson Scientific has changed to Thomson Reuters

Scopus

Following on the Scopus trial which ended in December 2007, TCD Library now has a subscription to Scopus (Elsevier).

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources covering more than 15,000 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, medicine and social sciences.

Coverage 1966-
Cited reference searching 1996 -
Subject Coverage: - by number of source titles that are used [Scopus Info web site]:
Life Sciences >3,400 titles
Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
Social Sciences > 2,850 titles

Scopus offers citation searching - as ISI's Web of Science has been doing -
therefore researchers can demonstrate the impact of their own publications by identifying citations to their work in the titles indexed in Scopus.

Other features:
Full text linking to the Library's collection of electronic journal titles,
Direct export to EndNote

Learn more here about Scopus.

Web of Science now on Web of Knowledge platform

Update on new Web of Knowledge interface

Thomson have permanently moved Web of Science to the the Web of Knowledge platform. The Web of Science link will be updated on the TCD webpage shortly. Web of Science may be reached at the moment via Web of Knowledge here on the Select a Database tab.


From Thomson's What's new in current release note (February 2008):

Structure Search
The Structure Search function is integrated with Web of Science. It allows you to:
Search for chemical compounds and reactions that match a structure query that you create.
Search for data associated with compounds and reactions.
Search for compound or reaction data without doing a structure search.

ARTstor and Internet Explorer

We now have access to ARTstor in TCD.

If you have any problems using ARTstor with Windows Internet Explorer, please ensure your Java - General - Network settings are set to the tcdproxy. For step-by-step instructions on how to do this see the ISServices page on Java.

Mozilla Firefox can handle the java issues and there's no need to change anything in that browser.

A link to ARTstor from the databases page will be added soon.

Regards
Clíona