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.

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

There are some issues with the URLs on the new Proquest/Dialog platform: AUEI, BREI, ERIC, and for databases formerly on the Dialog/Datastar platform, IPA, BNI, and in particular DIFT.

DIFT is not showing up on the new platform. The Dialog/Datastar platform is due to be taken down at the end of this month, December 2011. We are working with the platform providers to get the issue resolved so there is no loss of access.

The other databases are working with the new links at the moment, but please let Clíona know at once if there are any problems with them. 

Wiley Online Library downtime Sat. 17 December 2011

Due to essential maintenance by Wiley, the WOL will be unavailable for up to 3 hours from 10am, Saturday 17th December 2011.

New ProQuest/Dialog platform: IPAB, International ERIC (BREI & AUEI) - new platform

Further to the October posting on IPAB/DIFT, BREI, AUEI, the new Proquest/Dialog platform, for databases formerly on the Dialog/Datastar platform, is now live.

The finalised links will be updated in the catalogue soon.

A range of brief training modules to familiarise yourself with the new features are here: http://www.dialog.com/proquestdialog/

DRAPIer: Digital Research and Projects in Ireland - new resource

DRAPIer: Digital Research and Projects in Ireland.
DRAPIer is a free, interactive database of Irish digital humanities projects in many fields, including, Literature and Language, Folklore, History, Geography, Law. DRAPIer also documents the methods, formats and standards that are being used by the projects so that new projects can learn to use similar techniques, or so established projects can find related work in their field. At present 57 projects are listed in DRAPIer repository. DRAPIer is produced by the DHO, the Digital Humanities Observatory - a project of the Royal Irish Academy.


Subject: Histories and Humanities, General

Content: Full text, Data

MLA JIL - new resource

MLA JIL
The Moldern Languages Association Job Information List.

Published by the MLA in both electronic and print versions, the JIL is the recognized professional source for announcements of full-time faculty positions available in the fields of English and foreign languages in North American colleges and universities. The online JIL is an electronic database that job seekers can search by field or language, by geographic region, by key words or phrases in a job description (e.g., "women's studies," "Romanticism," or "drama"), and by rank.

TCD's subscription is active until 30th July 2012.

Irish Origins - new resource

Irish Origins provides access to Griffith's Valuation, the 'census substitute' for mid-nineteenth century Ireland; including maps and plans. It also provides access to other censuses and census substitutes, Wills, Marriages, Military and Burial records, Passenger lists, Directories and Electoral registers. The Irish Origins Image Library,and an Irish Genealogy Guide are also available.

Together with the detailed indexes, transcriptions, maps and images, Irish Origins also has in-depth research articles giving the full background and history of each collection, including tips and techniques on how to read, interpret and navigate your way though the wealth of family history data.

Griffith's valuation (1847-1864) -- Dublin City Census (1851) -- Dublin City Census (1901: Rotunda Ward) -- Census of Elphin (1749) -- William Smith O'Brien Petition (1848-9) -- Irish 'strays' in England & Wales Census (1841) -- Irish 'strays' in England & Wales Census (1871) -- Tithe Defaulters (1831) -- Electoral Registers for Ireland (1832-38) -- Dublin Will and Grant Books Index (Marriage records) (1270-1858) -- Index of Irish Wills (1484-1858) -- Dublin Will and Grant Books Index (1270-1858) -- Phillimore & Thrift, Indexes to Irish Wills (1536-1858) -- Sir Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland (1536-1858) -- Memorials of the Dead - Galway & Mayo -- Brian J. Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead -- Militia Attestations Index (1872-1915) -- Ireland's Memorial records (1914-18) -- The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders) -- British & Irish Passenger Lists (1890 & 1891) -- Transatlantic Migration (1858-1870) -- Directories of Ireland -- Dublin City 1847 Ordnance Survey Town Plans -- Griffith's Survey Maps & Plans (1847-1864) -- Irish Origins library (7 collections, 19th century)

New Resource: Dublin Castle Records, 1798-1926

The Dublin Castle administration in Ireland was the government of Ireland under English and later British rule, from the twelfth century until 1922, based at Dublin Castle. Dublin Castle Records, 1798-1926 contains records of the British administration in Ireland prior to 1922, a crucial period which saw the rise of Parnell and the Land War in 1880 through to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1921. This collection comprises materials from Series CO 904, The National Archives, Kew, UK.

Provided by Gale Cengage as part of their Archives Unbound collection.
There is a full description of the resource on their website here.

Aistear.ie. New, free database

A new, free, database has been added to the New Databases page and will shortly appear in the catalogue and on the main Databases page.

Aistear.ie: oiliúint san aistriúchán agus sa Ghaeilge = translator and Irish language training database. This site [edited by Dr. Antain Mac Lochlainn, Ionad na dTeangacha, Ollscoil na hÉireann, Má Nuad] is for translators, editors and anyone writing in Irish. Material on the site includes practical exercises in translation and editing, important texts on written Irish, a collection of the most common mistakes, and notes on the more difficult points of grammar and syntax.

Ainm.ie: Free database

A new, free, database has been added to the New Databases page, the catalogue and the main Databases page.

Ainm.ie makes up the third of three websites being developed by Fiontar: i) the online dictionary, focal.ie, a National Terminology Database for Irish, developed by Fiontar, DCU in collaboration with An Coiste Téarmaíochta, Foras na Gaeilge; and ii) logainm.ie, the place-names database of Ireland. All three are free databases.

The content of Ainm.ie is based on that of the nine printed volumes of Beathaisnéis by Diarmuid Breathnach and Máire Ní Mhurchú. There are short biographies of over 1,600 people whose lives were connected to the cultural life of Ireland from 1560 to the present day. The main text of the database is in Irish.

Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project (New Resource)

TCD Library has taken out a 1 year subscription (Oct 2011) to The Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. (See the New Resources tab on the Library's Databases and Ebooks page.)



This project is a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin).



The [Samuel] Beckett Digital Manuscript Project consists of two parts: (a) a digital archive of Samuel Beckett's manuscripts, organized in 26 research modules. Each of these modules comprises digital facsimiles and transcriptions of all the extant manuscripts pertaining to an individual text, or in the case of shorter texts, a group of texts. (b) a series of 26 volumes, analyzing the genesis of the texts contained in the corresponding modules

Discontinued subscriptions

The information resources budget for the coming year has been drastically reduced and all subscriptions are being reviewed.

The following subscriptions have already been discontinued:
Fireinf
OSH update

Best Practice

(OCLC Firstsearch databases)
Anthropology Plus
Avery Index
Chicano database
FRANCIS
SCIPIO

ESDU Engineering Service Data Unit
Construction Information Service (CIS) from IHS and NBS

Until the budetary position is clearer, there will be no automatic renewals of resources. A detailed review of all resources is being carried out. Once the review is completed, we may be able to reinstate some subscriptions. Into this category fall:
LegalTrac: subscription will not be automatically renewed on November 1st 2011
BSOL: British Standards online [grace period until 20th December]
IMF statistics: [some grace period beyond October 31st]

Updates will be posted as soon as possible.

New ProQuest/Dialog platform: IPAB, International ERIC (BREI & AUEI) - demonstration site

A new Proquest/Dialog platform is to be launched soon, for databases formerly on the Dialog/Datastar platform.
There is a demonstration site available, with samples of some of the databases (see below) now at http://www.dialog.com/migration
(FYI: ERIC is available to TCD on the new ProQuest platform. TCD doesn't subscribe to Medline although it is included on this test site.)

Summary of message from supplier:
With the migrataion of IPAB and International Eric (BREI & AUEI) and ERIC databases to the new Proquest/Dialog platform due towards the end of this month, access has been enabled to the demonstration site for free practice on ProQuest Dialog.

This is available to anyone who would like to have free hands-on practice, quick demonstration or sampling of ProQuest Dialog.

The site requires no login or password to enter.

It has 4 databases available – Australian Education index, British Education Index, ERIC and Medline.

The demonstration site can be accessed on the Migration pages at http://www.dialog.com/migration/. Click on the box on the left hand side of the page "Proquest Dialog Demonstration"

MyiLibrary - concurrent users

MyiLibrary has not automatically enforced turnaways in order to limit the number of concurrent users. They do monitor the concurrent usage of titles however.

Pearson and Irwin Law publishers have advised MyiLibrary that systems now need to comply with concurrency rules for single and multi user access.


Should any of TCD's titles be affected by enforced concurrency, the end user will see the following message:
Flow control warning:
The book is currently being viewed by another patron. It will become available when the patron has finished viewing the selected book.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online - trial access

Trial access to the above until Nov. 3, 2011.
Languages covered are: French, Italian, German, Spanish and Russian.
Purchase price depends on how many of these languages are chosen.

Access, from on campus only, via the On Trial page of the Library's databases section, or directly at www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com

The Oxford Language Dictionaries Online website features fully searchable, comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. The languages provided are French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian.

The following link has a very brief introduction to the resource:http://www.oup.com/uk/academic/online/librarians/training/

ProQuest databases: name changes

As ProQuest have been restructuring their databases recently, so some have had some name changes:

British Periodicals (Collection 1)
Collection 2 was added and the two together are NOW:
British Periodicals

Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations became:
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
and are NOW:
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Guardian/ Observer Historical Archive NOW:
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)

Index to Theses (formerly from ASLIB) IReL is NOW also:
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland

(IReL website: Index to Theses with Abstracts is the only comprehensive published listing of British theses accepted annually for higher degrees by some of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world; the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland. This resource is also searchable on the ProQuest platform, under the "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - UK and Ireland" heading.)

Irish Times archive and current file is NOW:
Irish Times
AND
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Irish Times (1859-2007) and The Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958)

Nursing Journals NOW:
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
*this includes Joanna Briggs - Evidence Based Resources NOW:
Evidence-Based Resources from the Joanna Briggs Institute
(as on DB1 report from new platform)

ProQuest resources in TCD on new ProQuest platform

The new ProQuest platform will be launched in TCD soon. Some of TCD's ProQuest databases are on this new platform and some have yet to be moved over by ProQuest. Therefore, both platforms will be in use for some time to come.

The new platform will host the following ProQuest databases:
ABI/Inform Global

Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) IReL

British Humanities Index

British Nursing Index (transferring from OVID)

British Periodicals

ERIC

GeoRef IReL (not yet linking to GeoSciences World which is not a ProQuest product)

International Bibliography of Art

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)

Irish Times

LISA

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)

Philosopher's Index IReL

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A & I

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Irish Times (1859-2007) and The Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958)

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source

Social Services Abstracts IReL

Sociological Abstracts IReL

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts IReL

Summon (Serial Solutions/ProQuest) demonstration

Summon demonstration
Wednesday June 22nd
3.30pm
North Training Room
For Library staff

Representatives from Serials Solutions and its sister company, Proquest, will provide a demo of Summon on Wednesday June 22nd at 3.30pm in the North Training Room.

Summon is one of the 'next' generation' resource discovery tools currently on the market.
Summon is modelled on the Google-style approach of building, and then searching a unified index of available resources, instead of searching each database individually. Tools such as these provide unified indexes of the licensed scholarly publications combined with locally held content (like the catalogue).

These tools are the 'next generation' of the present metasearch tools, (e.g. Research Pro). They query the subscription databases and return a single set of results.

The demo provides an opportunity to learn about one vendors offering in this area and to investigate the technology behind the resource.

Contact Arlene for more information

Web of Knowledge - New platform

Advance notice:
Web of knowledge is due to have a change of platform – later in 2011.

Taylor & Francis / Informaworld - New platform

A new online platform, Taylor & Francis Online, will replace access to the 1,600 Journals and Reference Works currently on Informaworld.

Taylor & Francis Online will be live from 27th June 2011.

Taylor & Francis are currently in the advanced stages of testing and plan to migrate from informaworld to Taylor & Francis Online over the course of the weekend beginning 25th June 2011. During this period users will still be able to access content as normal as we gradually redirect from informaworld to Taylor & Francis Online.

You will still be able to access your Abstracting & Indexing and Bibliographic databases on informaworld as normal, and notice will be sent once these are ready to move to Taylor & Francis Online.

TRAINING
There are online tutorials of the site. There are over 35 online demonstrations guiding you through the features of the new website. They can now be found at http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/1cFjuWU6wwSFqQlZOWL. These are copyright-cleared and we are happy for you to use these in library demonstrations.

ARTstor: Training course, 11 July 2011

Where: South Training Room, Berkeley Library
When: 11 July 2011, from 9.45am
Who: For all TCD Library and Academic staff with an interest in the area.
To book a place, please forward your name to Arlene Healy, arhealy@tcd.ie, by Friday, July 1st, specifying the sessions you wish to attend (see programme below).

ARTstor is a subscription based resource and access has been funded under the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) initiative for the past number of years. This training session will provide an opportunity for TCD members to explore how it can support teaching and research, and ensure its benefits are fully exploited.

Sian Evans, a trainer from ARTstor, is visiting Ireland in early July.

Sian will provide a training session in TCD Library for members of subscribing Irish institutions, on July 11th, in the South Training Room, Berkeley Library.

Programme:
(Booking: arhealy@tcd.ie, by Friday, July 1st, specifying the sessions you wish to attend. )

Registration - 9.45
1) 10.00-11.00 – Introduction to ARTstor (Library and Academic staff)
11.00-11.30 – break
2) 11.30-13.00 – Teaching with ARTstor (Library and Academic staff)
Lunch 13.00-14.00 (attendees to make own arrangements)
3) 14.00-15.00 – ARTstor for information professionals (Library staff)

ARTstor - an update and training session

Coming soon - Training day in TCD, July 11th, 2011, on ARTstor. More details later.


The ARTstor Digital Library

The ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research.

Its collections comprise contributions from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world (read the full list here: http://www.artstor.org/collections).

The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more (find sample subject guides here: http://www.artstor.org/subjectguides).

As well as advanced searching, sorting, viewing and sharing options, ARTstor can also facilitate you to:

Organize
Print and save images and related data to other hardware (e.g. CD, memory stick, hard drive)

Organize images into groups
Upload and manage personal images and sound files in ARTstor

Download image groups for use in presentation software such as PowerPoint, KeyNote, and ARTstor's Offline Image Viewer (OIV)

Export citations for images or image groups into EndNote or a text file

Generate URL links to images and groups for integration with local course management software and sharing with students

Chicago Manual of Style - New resource

Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. has just been added as a New Resource. Access, through the New Resources tab on the databases page, is immediate - both ON and OFF campus. A catalogue record will follow in due course and thereafter, the CMOS will appear on the main databases page as well.

Oxford Journals Online - loss of access

Loss of access to OJO 18th April-.
The OJO office has notified us that access will be reinstated by close of business, 20th April 2011, at the latest.
For urgent article request in the meantime, please contact Clíona or Arlene.

Update: access reinstated 20th April.

Zephyr (Bureau van Dijk) training. Monday 7th March

Training session on Zephyr, provided by an expert trainer from Bureau van Dijk.
Date: Monday, March 7th 2011
Time: 11.30am - 1:00 pm
Venue: South Training Room, Berkeley Library Basement.

There will be time assigned during the session for participants’ questions.

The resource was purchased last year in response to demand from researchers in economics and finance. Usage of the resource is not as high as expected. given the comprehensive nature of the deal information which it contains and the relevance of this resource to research and teaching in TCD. Therefore, we arranged this training session, in conjunction with Bureau van Dijk, to raise awareness of the existence of this resource, among researchers and students.

If you wish to attend the session please e-mail, Cliona Ni Shuilleabain, Electronic Resources Librarian, cosullvn@tcd.ie.

ZEPHYR - New resource

Zephyr – Comprehensive M&A deals and rumours with integrated company financials.

Zephyr is one of the newest business and financial information resources to be added to the Library’s suite of resources supporting these disciplines. Zephyr from Bureau van Dijk provides access to Merger and Acquisitions data, IPO, private equity, venture capital deals and rumours. Zephyr is updated hourly and adds more deals per year than similar resources.

Extensive coverage

Zephyr has information on a vast number of deals, including over ten years of history for deals around the world. The original source of information about a deal or rumour is indicated, and for recent deals, links to the source documents are included (press releases, SEC and other filings).

Translated

Multilingual sources are used to research deals and all deal information is translated into English.

Comprehensive information on rumours

Zephyr has information on rumours, as well as announced and completed deals. Rumours can be tracked and alerts sent as more information becomes apparent or the deal status changes.

Integrated Company Financials

Zephyr includes financial summaries and structures on companies involved in deals. It also has links to the detailed financial data on Bureau van Dijk’s company information products (Fame and Amadeus – available via the Library website).

A new ‘beta’ version of Zephyr is now available with a redesigned interface. TCD members can view this new version, in advance of the official launch, at https://zephyr2.bvdep.com/ip

The current version continues to be available via the Library’s website http://www.tcd.ie/Library/collections/databases.php

A trainer from Bureau van Dijk will provide onsite training on Zephyr in March. Look out for e-mails announcing dates and times.

by Arlene Healy