INA: Irish Newspaper Archives - new and improved site.

Irish Newspaper Archives has announced the launch of its new website with much improved searching funtionality, APA5.

This increased functionality, i.e. Share With Facebook & Twitter, Save As Pdf, Text View for Scanned Articles will be rolling out on Monday, 9 December 2013.

See a demo (with limited functionality)

Feedback(good & not so good!)

ERIC Free database, ERIC International on ProQuest

ERIC the FREE database [www.eric.ed.gov]: provides access to bibliographic records of 600 journals in the area of education. Due to the partial shutdown of the US federal government, the systems that host www.eric.ed.gov have been shut down.

ERIC Index on the ProQuest platform (where Eric International is the collective title for the 3 indexes: ERIC Index (NOT the Free database), Australian Education Index (AUEI) and British Education Index (BREI)).  This not directly impacted and will continue to be available to customers during the government shutdown, any links to full-text documents on the external ERIC site will not work. Services there will be restored as soon as a continuing resolution to provide funding has been enacted. These issues are the same for all third-party providers of ERIC.

Peace Process: Layers of Meaning - New resource

Peace Process: Layers of Meaninghttp://www.peaceprocesshistory.org/ is a new, free resource, with connections to TCD.

It is a hybrid project involving collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, Trinity College Dublin and Dundalk Institute of Technology. It is led by Professor Seán McConville of Queen Mary, University of London and Dr. Anna Bryson of Trinity College Dublin.

One element of the project is the development of LOMOND [Layers of Meaning Online Directory], an archive which provides access to surviving interviews, social investigations and oral histories of the peace process.

The Peace Portal complements LOMOND. It is a guide to online resources relating to the history of conflict and peace-making in Northern Ireland. A concise summary of each resource is provided.

Global Plants from JSTOR - New resource

TCD Library has taken out a subscription to JSTOR's Global Plants.

Herbaria preserve plant type specimens that are used for the study of botany, ecology, and other plant science disciplines.

Global Plants is a community-contributed database where worldwide herbaria can share their plant type specimens, experts can determine and update naming structures, students can discover and learn about plants in context, and a record of plant life can be preserved for future generations.


Global Plants contains the contributed collections of more than 300 herbaria from around the globe. TCD's Herbarium has contributed some material to Global Plants.

There are nearly two million high-resolution type specimens currently in the Global Plants database, and this number will continue to grow.

DRAPIer: Digital Research and Projects in Ireland - update

From DRAPIer website:
As of August 31st, 2013, the activities of the Digital Humanities Observatory have ceased. Although DHO:DRAPIer will continue to be hosted, there will be no further updates to the database. For this reason we cannot guarantee the currency of the information displayed. Any queries about this project should be directed to the Royal Irish Academy at
info@ria.ie

Henry Stewart Talks - The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection - updates

Henry Stewart Talks - The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection currently has over 2,000 online seminars by leading world experts, covering biomedicine, life sciences, management, marketing, finance and many more topics.

This direct link takes you straight to Henry Stewart Talks updates.

www.hstalks.com/r/tblsc/recent

HS Talks recently added an EMBED button (feature) to each of the talks! Lecturers can EMBED the talks into their courses and syllabi. 

In addition,all of the new talks are mobile compatible.

Drama Online - New resource

Subsequent to the extended trial we had to Drama Online during the year, we have now subscribed to this database.

Drama Online introduces new writers alongside the most iconic names in play writing history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides.

This is a growing collection.

Play Tools with Character Grids, Words and Speech graphs and Part Books offer a way to engage with plays for close study or for performance.

Drama Online includes:

• Major foreign works in translation: Bertolt Brecht, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, Frank Wedekind and more.

• Comic masterpieces from Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward.

• Modern classics from Tom Stoppard, Alan Bennett ... [et al.]

• A continually growing collection of the very latest contemporary writers including Polly Stenham, Katori Hall, D.C. Moore, James Graham, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Lucy Prebble.

The collection features the pre-eminent theatre lists of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber as well as production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum. 

 Drama Online is developed in partnership by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and Faber and Faber Ltd.  
View the title and author list for the 2013 collection.

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L'Année Philologique - moved to a new platform

L'Année Philologique is now on the EbscoHOST platform, along with ATLA.

Burke's Peerage Online - resource gone offline

Termination of Burke's Peerage Online as of September 1, 2013

Origins.net designed, developed and has been operating the Burke's Peerage Online web site on behalf of Burke's Peerage (UK) Ltd, since 2005. Burke's Peerage has now been sold to another party and, at extremely short notice, the present website ceased to operate from 1 September 2013. Origins.net have had no communication from the new owners and have not been permitted to continue to provide service until the end of any client's subscription period.

Linked Logainm - launch

From the DRI website:

About Linked Logainm

Linked Logainm is a collaborative project undertaken by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Fiontar at Dublin City University, the National Library of Ireland and the Placenames Branch of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

The Linked Logainm project has created a new open dataset, which allows Irish place names to be linked across the world by cutting edge technologies developed in Ireland.

The new Linked Data version of the authoritative bilingual database of Irish place names logainm.ie, is an open resource to be widely used by web developers, computer scientists, researchers, the heritage community and librarians and archivists.

The Location LODer website is an interactive map where visitors can explore Irish place names, linked with historical context and maps, images and contemporary data from sources such as Europeana, Wikipedia, the Irish Historic Towns Atlas and the National Library of Ireland.