Paley Centre Collection - Trial access

Paley Centre Collection Trial access available until January 2010

The Paley Center Seminars [ProQuest] is an online video archive of the seminar series held by The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) in New York and Los Angeles. The seminars feature leading names in media discussing the creative process, contemporary issues in production, and issues such as the impact of the media on contemporary society. Topics covered range from presidential advertising campaigns to reality shows, from writing sitcoms to the role of the media in the Middle East. The archive will include more than 300 hours of video, with new content added each year in regular updates. [Paley Centre website]

John Johnson Collection - Trial access

John Johnson Collection Trial access available until January 2010

An archive of printed ephemera from the Bodleian Library, Oxford and ProQuest. Topics include: everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising. The collection was assembled by John de Monins Johnson (1882-1956), Printer to the University. The collection currently provides access to facsimile images of more than 36,000 items.

HW Wilson OmniFile Full text

OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition and the databases it supersedes

Coverage dates: Indexing 1982+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+

Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition provides periodical resources with electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources (Full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications). Coverage back to 1982.


Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full text) that is contained in these six Wilson databases:

§ Education Full Text

§ General Science Full Text

§ Humanities Full Text

§ Readers' Guide Full Text

§ Social Sciences Full Text

§ Wilson Business Full Text

Note: Indexing and abstracting for all articles in journals covered by these six databases, whether or not they include full text, is included in OmniFile.


In addition, Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition presents complete indexing, abstracting, and full text from all of the journals in the five databases below to which Wilson has full text rights. Indexing and abstracting is present for all articles from those journals without regard to whether or not we have the full text for that particular article.

§ Applied Science & Technology Full Text

§ Art Full Text

§ Biological & Agricultural Index Plus

§ Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text

§ Library Literature & Information Science Full Text

Dictionary of Irish Biography - Trial access

Dictionary of Irish Biography - Trial access available till December 31st 2009.

The Dictionary of Irish Biography is a collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy, involving 700 contributors and spanning 9,000 lives. The Dictionary includes the lives of Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland.

Bibliography of British and Irish History - Trial access

Bibliography of British and Irish History - Trial access available till November 29th 2009

A partnership between the Institute of Historical Research, the Royal Historical Society and Brepols Publishers (providers of Brepolis databases).

The Royal Historical Society (RHS) Bibliography of British and Irish History will be superseded on January 1st 2010 by the Bibliography of British and Irish History Online (BBIH).

The RHS Bibliography has been essential tool for researchers of British and Irish history. Following the cessation of funding at the end of 2009, the new BBIH will be published by Brepols Publishers and will change from a free access to a subscription service. Help for users familiar with the RHS Bibliography is available on the Brepols website.

For electronic resources, databases, ejournal collections and ebooks in TCD library, please check Library website.

Reaxys - Trial access

Reaxys Trial access till 30th November 2009

Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions. It is built to support chemists in their daily work.

Reaxys starts with the query form, which allows you to enter reaction, substance or textual information.

Reaxys is based on the combined content of the Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases. Access to the Beilstein (organic) and Gmelin (inorganic) is currently (2009) available via the Library at CrossFire, Beilstein and Gmelin.

In 2010, the CrossFire Service will be replaced by the new Reaxys interface.

Training material, including documentation and demos can be downloaded at The Reaxys Training Centre

For electronic resources, databases, ejournal collections and ebooks in TCD library, please check Library website.

Rock's Backpages - New resource

Rock's Backpages
An archive (15,000 articles) of reviews, interviews and features on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, sourced from the most influential music publications.

Editor: Barney Hoskyns
Subject: Music, Education, Sociology
Full text

Brill's New Jacoby - New resource

New Jacoby (annual subscription) :

Felix Jacoby's 1st 3 parts of Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (FGrHist) (1923 -1958), included fragments of 856 Greek historians' writings, and a commentary on many of these fragments. In 1999, indexes to the 3 parts were published. From 1998 onwards, the continuation of Jacoby’s work, edited by Guido Schepens produced FGrHist continued: Part IV (Biography and Antiquarian Literature) .

Brill's New Jacoby (BNJ) includes those fragments which have been edited by Jacoby: parts I-III, adds commentaries on the fragments previously lacking commentary, biographies of authors, bibliographies and an English translation. BNJ will be published online in batches of 50-60 fragmentary authors every six months, beginning in December 2006 and ending in 2013.

The continuation of Jacoby (Vols. IV- ) do not form a part of the BNJ.

See review of BNJ, written Nov. 08 The Classical Review, Vol. 59, no. 2
See Brill website description of BNJ

Brill's New Pauly - New resource

New Pauly (purchased outright) : Encyclopedia of the Ancient World

Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider
English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar
Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester
English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry

The complete original Der Neue Pauly together with Brill’s New Pauly are offered online. New Pauly Online is automatically updated whenever a new volume is published. New Pauly Online provides the following features: - fully searchable - fully cross-referenced - allows for basic and advanced searches - browsable alphabetical index in both German and English - includes all maps and illustrations.

See Brill website for more details of New Pauly

SpringerLINK - some general information

SpringerLINK full text of 1336 ejournals and some eBooks.

Through an IReL (Irish Research eLibrary) subscription, Trinity College Library has access to the full text of 1336 electronic journals on the SpringerLINK database platform. These ejournals cover the fields of biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities and economics. Kluwer Academic journals are now part of this package; however Brill Academic Publisher is not.

In general, with the exception of the book series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, the eBooks on SpringerLINK do not form part of the IReL subscription and are not available to TCD users.

Of the top four most-used journals in TCD on SpringerLINK during the last year, only one is in the TCD print collection. However, all ejournals might be available through other Library database platforms. For example, the most used ejournal: Jrnl of Autism and Developmental Disorders is on Academic Search Premier : 1993 to present (Embargo: 1 year), ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source : 1997 to present (Embargo: 1 year) and SpringerLINK : 1997 to present .

SpringerLINK generally does not have an embargo on the most recent issues, unlike the other two platforms mentioned, although its coverage may not encompass an equivalent number of years.

An individual user can register from within TCD’s account (that is, from where you can see the database by finding it through the Library system) and this allows the use of features such as RSS feeds and favourites linking. Downloads are free for the journals to which TCD Library subscribes, but if other items outside our subscriptions are found, these can be purchased from SpringerLINK via your personalized homepage. To avoid paying twice for the one resource, a user should check first however, that the required item is not already available through the Library from another supplier.

Springer is developing a new, more user-friendly interface at the moment and plan to launch this in 2010. A feature of this new interface will be a facility to search by Citations which should be a useful tool for all researchers.

TCD Library databases can be reached from the main Library Web page under Databases & E-Books or by searching the catalogue for the Database name or the journal title.

ReVIEW - New Resource

ReVIEW - Following on our recent trial access (ended 1 August 2009) it has been decided to purchase ReVIEW.

Subject, Art History:
ReVIEW is a service that aims to digitize many of the most important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries, making them available in a searchable form online. [Publisher: Design Research Publications]

The first two titles in the ReVIEW project are now available:
THE STUDIO vols.1-50, 1893-1910
DEUTSCHE KUNST UND DEKORATION vols. 1-27 1897-1911

TCD Research Support System (RSS) and Trinity's Access to Research Archive (TARA)

The TCD RSS is a web-based information system, which incorporates an expertise database. TARA is Trinity’s Open Access institutional repository, which grants free access to the full text of TCD’s research papers over the internet.

The Research Support System allows members of TCD’s Research Community to input and update all information on their academic interests, research expertise and publications to a central system.

TCD researchers submit their full text papers to TARA via the RSS’s publication input screen. It is not only desirable to upload research papers to TARA in order to increase citations of research papers, but it is often a necessary process in response to Funding Body requirements. Once a paper is in TARA, a 'persistent' link is created which automatically appears in the RSS and which is visible on College web pages. The system generates web pages automatically and helps to avoid repetition in the provision of information.

The RSS enables the promotion of individual Faculty or Research Group work. From this system, up-to-date publications lists can be created and maintained and reports can be generated, for Faculty, School, Department, Research Centre and individuals.

An important part of the Research Support System is the regular export of data to the Expertise Ireland portal .

For more information, help with uploading research publications, or requesting reports, please contact: Garret McMahon, Institutional Repository Content Manager or Niamh Brennan, Programme Manager, Research Information Systems.

Further information on TARA and access to the Tara website.
Further information on the RSS

JSTOR - latest Irish periodical addition

Among recent additions to the JSTOR archive is:

Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (Ireland)
Release Content: Vols. 1-2 (2006-2007)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: American Society of Irish Medieval Studies
ISSN: 1931-2539

Follow this link for more detailed information on TCD's JSTOR titles and collections .

JSTOR is an archive collection. The 'moving wall' varies between titles, but negociations are ongoing to provide moving walls of zero, i.e. where JSTOR will have the current issues of journals available. For example, the following have 'Zero Moving Wall[s]' already, with content released as soon as the latest issues become available to JSTOR:

The American Journal of International Law (Arts & Sciences I)
Release Content: Vol. 102, No. 3 (July, 2008) – Vol. 103, No. 1 (January, 2009)
Moving Wall: Zero
Publisher: The American Society of International Law
ISSN: 0002-9300

APT Bulletin (Arts & Sciences III)
Release Content: Vol. 40, No. 1 (2009)
Moving Wall: Zero
Publisher: Association for Preservation Technology International
ISSN: 0848-8525

Primal Pictures Dentistry - Trial

Primal Pictures Dentistry

Trial access until August 31st 2009 of Select Primal Pictures from Menu

Primal Pictures Dentistry provides an accurate 3D modeling of the key anatomy for dentistry. Views include oral and nasal cavities, dentition, individual teeth in 3D and cross section, nerves, larynx and pharynx, sinuses, the eye, and the brain.

Knovel - New resource

Knovel

TCD Library is commencing an annual subscription to Knovel.
The subscription period will be October 1, 2009 - September 30, 2010.
Complementary access for the period 10-30 September 2009 is to be set up.

The subscription will provide full access to the 20 subject sections in the Knovel collection (excluding the Premium Content). In addition, TCD Library will be subscribing to both Transportation AND Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.

Oxford Scholarship Online - Trial

Oxford Scholarship Online.

TCD has trial access for the entire database from now (17 August 2009) until 30 September 2009.

Contains: more than 2,500 Oxford books in Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Political Science, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Religion, and Social Work Abstracts.

Keywords are available at book and chapter level alongside journals’ abstracts through a wide variety of online services
Link directly to DOIs (and static URLs) at book and chapter level.

Online help:

Access the online tutorial

Information about the latest content update along with complete title lists in all subjects is available here

A short self-access introduction

Internet-based training sessions via Webex. full schedule

Extensive Help files on the site itself or as a pdf

ReVIEW - Trial access

ReVIEW - Trial access until 1 August 2009.
Subject, Art History: ReVIEW is a service that aims to digitize many of the most important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries, making them available in a searchable form online. [Publisher: Design Research Publications]

The first two titles in the ReVIEW project are now available:
THE STUDIO vols.1-50, 1893-1910
DEUTSCHE KUNST UND DEKORATION vols. 1-27 1897-1911

JSTOR – Scholarly Journal archives

JSTOR provides a digital archive of scholarly journals (complete runs of journals, select monographs, transactions and conference proceedings), both in multidisciplinary and in discipline-specific collections.

Via IReL (the Irish Research eLibrary), TCD Library has access to the JSTOR collections: the Ireland Collection (nearing completion), the Arts and Sciences I to VII, the Life Sciences Collection, Public Health Reports and, temporarily, the 19th Century British Pamphlets.

The JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collection consists of seven parts. Arts and Sciences I began with supplying the archives of core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology and also provides titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics. The next group, Arts and Sciences II adds to the collections in I. Group III introduces languages and literature, IV focusses on Business, Education and Law and Group V, VI and VII build on all that has gone before. There are between 100 and 150 titles in each group.

The Ireland Collection has titles and resources across the arts, humanities and sciences. A recent addition to the JSTOR Ireland Collection has been, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. TCD library keeps the hardcopy of the Transactions in Early Printed Books stacks; 33 volumes, covering 1787 to 1907. Through the database, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), TCD readers have online access to the 7 volumes of the Transactions published in the Eighteenth century. With JSTOR, there is online access to the full run.

It is important to note that JSTOR is an archive. It will not provide access to current journals. There is a “moving wall" with most titles, that is, a time-lapse between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is usually between three to five years. For example, JSTOR has now uploaded the archives of the RIA’s Ériu, covering the years 1904 - 2005 (Vols. 1 - 55). The moving wall here is three years. The Library has the current (Vol. 58, 2008) issue in hard copy.

The archive is being added to continually. A full list of JSTOR titles and collections can be accessed from JSTOR's Collections at your institution page under Resources for Librarians on the JSTOR website. The journal titles may also be found through the TCD Library website's list of ejournals or easy access to the full JSTOR collection is on the Library's website under Information Resources: Databases: J.

JSTOR - new journals (full-text) added

There are new journals being added to JSTORs collections all the time. In the latest update, of particular interest are:

Dublin Historical Record (Ireland)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (March, 1938) - Vol. 58, No. 2 (Autumn, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Old Dublin Society
ISSN: 0012-6861

Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review (Ireland)
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (March, 1912) - Vol. 92, No. 368 (Winter, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Irish Province of the Society of Jesus
ISSN: 0039-3495

and in the Sciences:
The Journal of Infectious Diseases (Health & General Sciences; Life Sciences)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 2, 1904) - Vol. 188, No. 12 (December 15, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 0022-1899

Connect to JSTOR through the Library's Information Resources, Databases pages

Web of Knowledge - Free training session

A reminder that there will be two training sessions tomorrow, 19th May 2009, on the Web of Knowledge. See here for details.
There are a few places remaining. Contact Clíona to book a place.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and ChemSpider

Summary of RSC press release:

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has acquired ChemSpider.

ChemSpider is a free online service providing a structure centric community for chemists.

ChemSpider is a single source of structure-based chemistry information, providing access to almost 21.5 million unique chemical entities sourced from over 200 different data sources and integration to a multitude of other online services .

You can read the announcement in full on the website.

19th Century British Pamphlets project

Courtesy of JSTOR:

About 5,900 new pamphlets have been added to the JSTOR archive as part of the LSE Selected Pamphlets.

These selected pamphlets cover political party materials, including election manifestos and political cartoons.

There are also collections from pressure groups such as the Fabian Society, Imperial Federation Defence Committee, Poor Law Reform Association, Workhouse Visiting Society, Liberal and Property Defence League, and from cooperative movements such as the Cooperative Women's Guild collections.

We have access to these pamphlets from TCD at least until the end of June 2009 - the trial period for the 19th Century British Pamphlets project.

Web of Knowledge - Free training session

What: Web of Knowledge training session
Where: South Training Room, Berkeley Library.
When: Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Who: For all TCD Library and Academic staff and interested Postgraduates.

Guillaume Rivalle of Thomson Reuters will aim the sessions at both Library staff and academic staff /postgrads.

The schedule is as follows:

Morning Session
9.30am-12.30pm (30 min coffee break)
Topics: Web of Science, Derwent Innovation Index, Researcher ID, Journal Citation Report and Essential Science Indicators

Afternoon Session
2.00pm-5.00pm (30 min coffee break)
Topics: As morning session

The sessions are scheduled to allow those not interested in JCR and ESI to leave after the Researcher ID topic.

TCD Library has subscribed to Web of Science for a number of years. We have gained access more recently to additional research support tools and resources on the Web of Knowledge platform under our IReL subscription. The training session will allow attendees to understand and use these highly valuable research tools.

To book a place please forward your details to Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin at cosullvn@tcd.ie.

Please also note that attendees will need to follow the internal training event application procedure.

I dizionari Zanichelli online - New subscription

I dizionari Zanichelli online - New Subscription
Two Zanichelli online dictionaries, Italian and English: Lo Zingarelli and Il Ragazzini. Click on Inizia consultazione beside the dictionary you wish to consult.

They can be found under Zanichelli on the Library's website, under the Information Resources Databases and E-Books page.

Web of Knowledge training - 19th May 2009 - Preliminary announcement

This is a preliminary announcement about a Web of Knowledge training session being planned for May 19th.

Guillaume Rivalle will be giving two training sessions on Tuesday, 19th May 2009 in the Library Training Rooms.

The details of each session are being finalised with the trainer, but it is envisaged that the morning will be a general session and the afternoon will be more specific.

The topics covered will be WoS, DII, Endnote Web, RID, JCR and ESI.

The sessions will be open to all interested parties and further details will be posted as soon as they are known.

Hungarian Reformation collection - New resource

Hungarian Reformation collection from Brill.

This collection offers a comprehensive survey of the original writings of the Hungarian reformers. It includes texts from the period of the first stirrings of reform in the 1540s through to works written for the established churches of the region during the 1650s.

It is edited by Dr. Graeme Murdock of the Department of History in Trinity College Dublin.

See the Library website's Information Resources page for details of electronic resources on trial and recently acquired resources.

On trial: BioOne

BioOne

Trial access until end of July 2009.

150 titles covering aspects of Biological, Ecological and Environmental Sciences. BioOne is a not-for-profit collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academia and the private sector. Researchers masy set up their own profile and save search alerts and lists of favourite journals.

On trial: FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals

Trial access is available to the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals database for members of the College through TCD Library. The trial access will end on May 21st 2009.

RSC and ebooks

Not all books published by the RSC become part of the RSC eBook Collection.

There are a number of reasons for this, such as not having the right to publish a book in digital format or other contractual issues.

This is the case with the 2nd Edition of Nanochemistry, for example, which includes material from other publishers.

For a list of books not included in the RSC eBook Collection, click here.

AMADEUS and FAME

AMADEUS and FAME
Bureau Van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvDEP) provides detailed, analytical, commercial databases for in-depth research on company information. Trinity Library subscribes to two of BvDEP’s databases: the pan-European database, AMADEUS and the UK/Ireland-specific database, FAME.

Since 2008, TCD readers have spent over 135 hours on the AMADEUS database and more than twice that time consulting FAME. According to Bureau Van Dijk’s statistics, these readers have been looking at detailed reports for over 46 thousand companies. Reports include contact information, credit score and rating, names and addresses of directors and a lot more.

AMADEUS contains financial information on 11 million public and private companies in 41 European countries. FAME provides access to detailed company information for about 2.8 million UK and Irish companies. It also provides summary information for a further half million smaller businesses. On both websites, users can check the currency of the data by using the ‘Support’ tag and the ‘About’ heading to find the ‘last updated’ date.

According to information provided by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC UK), FAME is used by the major accountancy firms to produce the majority of transfer pricing reports and Amadeus is a popular database for European companies. The format of these databases, both for searching and for the reports is consistent across the two databases.

The HMRC website draws attention to some areas of concern in the use of commercial databases. It notes, for example, potential issues with two key criteria, i.e. business descriptions, which can be subjective, and SIC codes, (grouping companies into sectors) which can be misleading for various reasons, as outlined by the HMRC. There is a very helpful guide entitled Constructing a search model on the HMRC website, which uses FAME as the searched database. The guide is at the base of the HMRC page.

AMADEUS and FAME are not the only business databases subscribed to by the Library. Directed access to specific Business and Economics e-resources is available from the Library website’s Business subject guide page, created by the Library‘s BESS Subject Librarian, Ruth Potterton.

All TCD Library subscription databases can be found on the Library website in the Search Collections box and under the title: Databases and e-Books .

New York Review of Books - New resource

TCD Library has recently taken out a subscription to the New York Review of Books.

We have access to both the Review's current issue and to the archives.

The subscription will expire on April 30, 2019.

The links will be added to the Library's A-Z listing of ejournals on the Library's website.

EMBASE

Summary of EMBASE article.

The complete article by David Mockler, Medical Librarian on the subject of EMBASE may be read in the April issue of SETH research newsletter.

EMBASE.com

EMBASE.com is an Elsevier database, essentially the European equivalent of PubMed.

In addition to the roughly 11 million EMBASE records from 1974 onwards, EMBASE.com also includes over 7 million unique records from PubMed/MEDLINE from 1966 on, thus allowing both databases to be searched simultaneously.

There is an overlap in journal coverage between EMBASE.com and PubMed. The actual degree of overlap varies widely according to the topic but studies comparing searches of the two databases have generally concluded that a comprehensive search requires that both databases be searched.

Some standout features of EMBASE.com are that its coverage of pharmacology and drugs is superior to that of PubMed. It also includes English/foreign language journals and selected conference proceedings not included in PubMed’s coverage.

For full article see SETH research newsletter, April 2009 issue.

Library Research newsletters: SETH and AHSS

Just a reminder that two newsletters are produced by the Library, collated and distributed by Jessica Eustace, SFI Research Support Librarian: the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) Research Newsletter and the Science, Engineering Technology & Health (SETH) Research Newsletter.

These newsletters contain short contributions on specific research resources and tools provided by the Library. They appear monthly and are distributed by email. If you are not in receipt of these and you would like to be, please contact Jessica Eustace. Back issues are on the Library website homepage.

Thomson name change - FYI

Thomson Gale have changed their name to Cengage Learning.

Google Scholar and LinkSource

LinkSource is partially working on Google Scholar at the moment, i.e. books can be found but a search for print journals is not being carried out in the TCD catalogue. Attempts underway to have it fully operational.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The journals within the DOAJ are listed on TCD's e-journals A-Z and the resource has been added to our databases page for ease of retrieval (under Directory of Open Access Journals).

DOAJ's aim is to cover all subjects and languages. The service defines open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. DOAJ takes the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory.

19th Century British Pamphlets Project

The 19th Century British Pamphlets collection is now freely accessible to all JSTOR participating institutions until June 30, 2009. There will be regular releases of additional material during this pamphlet trial period.

Initial release of pamphlets from the 19th Century British Pamphlets Project: c8,200 pamphlets were added to JSTOR [Feb 2, 2009], including portions of the Knowsley Pamphlet Collection (University of Liverpool), Cowen Tracts (Newcastle University), and the Hume Tracts (University College London).

*19th Century British Pamphlets – Project Overview*
More than 20,000 19th Century British pamphlets will be added to the JSTOR archive as part of this project. This collection of materials was created to provide researchers with online access to some of the most significant collections of pamphlets held in UK institutions. All pamphlets are being digitized within the University of Southampton Library's specialist BOPCRIS digitization facility.

See JSTOR and JISC for more information. See also the IReL website, News section

British Biographical Archive Online and Saur’s World Biographical Information System

British Biographical Archive Online (BBA) is now part of Saur’s World Biographical Information System (WBIS).

Endnote training

EndNote is a bibliographic reference software that can help you to store, manage, organise and format bibliographic references for use in your research papers and publications. It enables the automatic creation and formatting of citations and bibliographies.

A number of 2-hour training sessions entitled, "A Beginners Guide to EndNote XI for PC" is scheduled. Places are allocated on a first-come basis and are limited to 18 participants per session. Participants are expected to have basic IT skills and knowledge of using Word and databases.

Location: South Training Room, Berkeley Basement, Berkeley Library.

A schedule of sessions is available here, at registration.

When registering, follow these steps.
1. Log in, or create a login if this is your first visit (please note, your tcd username and password is not valid on this site)
2. Choose from schedule which course you wish to attend.
3. Register and fill in all details.
4. Now reserve a place on the course.
5. If the reservation has been successful, you will receive a confirmation e-mail.
6. 1 day before the course you will be sent a reminder.

Trainers:
Jessica Eustace, (SFI Research Librarian); David MacNaughton, Subject Librarian (Sciences & Health Sciences); David Mockler (Medical Librarian);J ohn McManus (Collection Management); Lorna Flannery, Subject Librarian (Engineering & Computing, Maths & Statistics); Greg Sheaf, Subject Librarian (Nursing and Midwifery); Geraldine Fitzgerald, Subject Librarian ( Education); Sean Hughes, Subject Librarian (History); Christoph Schmidt-Supprian (Collection Management).

Should you wish to cancel a booking, please notify the Endnote Course Administrator, Jessica Eustace. Please provide a minimum of 24 hours notice to allow other to attend in your place.

IReL and eResources

TCD Library eResources are funded from different sources. A portion is nationally funded through the IReL consortium.

IReL is the Irish Research eLibrary, an electronic research library. Its aim is to support researchers in Biotechnology and Information Technology and researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The IReL consortium includes all the Irish Universities apart from QUB and UU.

IReL provides peer-reviewed, online research publications: journals, databases, index and abstracting services and ebooks.

A list of IReL-funded resources is to be found on the IReL website.

If you are off campus you must link to these resources via TCD Library’s website so as to gain access.

All TCD Library eResources (IReL and all others) are to be found in the information resources section of the Library's website.

CIG training

The CIG group now includes Proquest, CSA, Chadwyck Healey, COS, Factiva, Safari, and Serials Solutions products.

CIG run regular online presentation webinars on the full range of products and these are open to anyone to attend at no cost. These are run globally, largely from the US, but also 10 a month from the UK to cover a different range of time zones.

Training calendar of online webinars

Irish Times Historical Archive available via Proquest Historical Newspapers platform

IReL has funded access to the Irish Times Historical Archive via the Proquest Historical Newspapers platform.

The Historical Irish Times (1859-2007) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue of both the Irish Times (1859-2006) and the Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958).



Access via the Proquest interface makes the database easier to use: stories that originally spanned multiple pages of a newspaper now appear as one continuous image. Each newspaper page is zoned into article images; each newspaper image is supported with searchable ASCII text. Combined, these two features mean faster, more effective searches.

Researchers can sort their results by oldest, most recent, or most relevant. Users can view and download articles, front pages, photos, display ads, and more in PDF format. The “My Research” summary feature can be used to save articles, email documents, create a bibliography and export citations.

The Irish Times can also be cross-searched with The Observer and The Guardian.

Finally, off-campus access to the Irish Times will now be possible without the need for a special Irish Times login anymore.

FAME and AMADEUS database training

What: Training session on the company information databases, FAME and AMADEUS.
When: Wednesday 14th January 2009 at 9.30am. (1 hour duration)
Where: North Training Room, Berkeley Library, TCD.
Who: Trainer: member of provider company, Bureau van Dijk.

Open to members of Library staff, academics and other interested parties
Please contact Arlene if you wish to attend this session.

Details of databases:
FAME provides access to company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership and management for the largest 2.4 million UK and Irish companies. It also provides summary information for a further 950,000 smaller businesses.

AMADEUS is a comprehensive, pan-European database containing financial information on 11 million public and private companies in 41 European countries. It combines data from over 30 specialist regional information providers (IPs).