New Resource: Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library [Harvard University Press. September 2015, access 'in perpetuity' purchased.]

The written treasures of the ancient Greek and Roman world. James Loeb founded the Loeb Classical Library in 1911, to make the work of classical authors accessible - regardless of knowledge of Greek or Latin.

Since 1989, a renewal plan founded on the publication of four or five new volumes a year has been in place. This plan includes titles new to the Loeb Classical Library (such as Chariton), completely new editions and translations (such as Euripides), and thoroughly revised editions (such as Homer).Greek and Latin texts are alongside English translations.

The authors in the Loeb Classical Library span fourteen centuries and every genre. Editors and translators are drawn from both sides of the Atlantic. New titles are added to the series, while existing titles are continually reprinted so that the complete Loeb Classical Library always remains in print.

New resource: EMIS

EMIS, [as a result of a request and funding from the TCD School of Business] delivers electronic information products, by subscription, to institutional customers through its global network of offices. EMIS provides hard-to-get information covering more than 100 emerging markets.
TCD has just taken out a one-year subscription.

NEW PLATFORM: Digital National Security Archive (China and the U.S.) is now available on ProQuest

DNSA: China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960–1998

DNSA: U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action

The above resources are now available on the ProQuest platform.

This means they can be cross-searched with the other Social Sciences group on ProQuest, or with all the TCD ProQuest databases.

The legacy (Chadwyck-Healey) version of DNSA will remain available until late summer, 2015, when the site will be shut down and redirects will be turned on. 

The new, direct links to the ProQuest versions have been added to the bibliographic records. The old link is also still available there and will be until the site closes down.

MyArchive Content:  Users who have created a MyArchive account will need to move any saved searches and documents they wish to retain over to their MyResearch account on the ProQuest platform. Instructions on how to accomplish this and/or how to create a MyResearch account can be found here. 

PLAYOGRAPHYIreland - New FREE Database

PLAYOGRAPHYIreland is a free database, produced by the Irish Theatre Institute, which has been added to our list of databases.

PLAYOGRAPHYIreland comprises two comprehensive online searchable databases: Irish Playography (all new professionally produced Irish plays written in English since the formation of the Abbey, Ireland's National Theatre, in 1904) and Playography na Gaeilge (all new plays written and produced in the Irish language since 1901).

See the TCD Library Database and E-Books page under New Resources and also under the main list of databases.A marc record will be created in due course.

Irish Books in Print, now, Irish Book Search: NEW TITLE, NEW Platform

Changes to Irish Books in Print. 
* New title: Irish Book Search
* FIFTY concurrent users.
* Improved search including enhanced date searching capabilities
* Clearer presentation of search results with the ability to drill-down for more detail
* Enhanced New & Recent Titles search
* Website renamed: Irish Book Search:  www.irishbooksearch.com

Ancestry Library Edition: Database on trial

• Ancestry Library Edition Trial 18/2/2015 - 17/4/2015 Ancestry Library Edition is a new genealogy research tool created for the library market and provides patrons instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more! These collections are continuously expanding, with new content added every business day.
  
• This trial is available ON CAMPUS only.

Open Book Publishers. Free, scholarly ebooks. Membership trial: 29/1/15-28/2/15

A trial membership for this collection of open access, free, scholarly ebooks is currently available until the end of February, via the Library’s Databases and Ebooks page, Trial Databases tab.

Open Book Publishers is a non-profit organisation established, by academics in Cambridge, to publish rigorously peer-reviewed Open Access monographs. To date, 51 titles in the humanities and social sciences by some of the world's best known scholars (including Amartya Sen and Noam Chomsky) have been published.

For an annual membership fee, member libraries can allow the full range of formatted digital editions (pdf, epub, mobi) to be freely downloaded by any registered library users.

The Library could also allow any digital edition of titles to be uploaded to the library's own digital repository or ebook collection, to keep permanently.

A 15% discount is granted to any registered member of the university library (staff/student/alumnus) on the sales of any printed edition of Open Book Publisher titles, purchased from its website.

RILM (A&I) database moves from ProQuest to EBSCOhost

As of January 1, 2015, the bibliographic databases of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale—RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is available for subscription via the EBSCO platform only. TCD Library continues its subscription to RILM, and the catalogue record now points at the EBSCOhost site.

As a result of this database move, RILM contents are now included in Stella searches.

New database: Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) formerly Hand Press Book Database

[Free under the agreement with CONUL (Consortium of National and University Libraries) - Oct. 2014]
The HPB Database (previously called the Hand Press Book Database) is a steadily growing collection of files of catalogue records from major European and North American research libraries covering items of European printing of the hand-press period (c.1455-c.1830) integrated into one file. This makes it possible for information to be retrieved in one single search across all files.

As the digitisation of collections in contributing libraries progresses, more and more catalogue records point to digital presentations of the early printed books. The HPB Database is of interest to librarians and any one else with academic pursuits across many fields of study that use printed books as source material. It is especially valuable for research in intellectual history, social history, and transmission of thought, as well as in the history of printing and the history of the book.

It may be accessed for information retrieval and downloading by CERL member institutions, their staff and users.


Content: Bibliographic database

PsycTESTS (EBSCO) - TRIAL

PsycTESTS *Please note, this trial period is only 30 days: Trial: 16 January 2015 - 15 February 2015. 

Requested by Geraldine Fitzgerald, Subject Librarian, Psychology & Education.

The PsycTESTS database is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA). PsycTESTS is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration. This is a bibliographic database, which also contains full text and multimedia. (76% of test records contain the actual test or test items.) More details here.