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.

JSTOR - new platform

JSTOR launched its new platform today.

There have been several issues reported, amongst them:
1. temporary off campus access problems for some libraries.
A temporary solution may be to advise off campus users to switch from JSTOR's homepage to the login page instead) https://www.jstor.org/action/showLogin

2. Changes to the interface
a. Searching. Now includes all content - subscribed or not - by default.
You can tick a box in the Advanced Search to limit to "Include only content I can access", but it's clear from the screen which items we have access to.

b. LinkSource. JSTOR still doesn't display the TCD linksource icon, however it does show a small box "Go to article" with the text "Trinity College Dublin provides links to recent articles" which brings you to the catalogue via the LinkSource menu. See, for example, the article: Review: Palestinian Children: Dying to Live / Lori A. Allen.

JSTOR, Archaeology Ireland and the moving wall

JSTOR have just announced that the former 3 year 'moving wall' for Archaeology Ireland has been removed at the request of the publisher. Therefore, the most current issue and back issues of Archaeology Ireland as detailed below are available via JSTOR.

Archaeology Ireland (Ireland)
Publisher: Wordwell Ltd.
ISSN: 0790-892X

JSTOR Coverage:1987-2009 (Vol. 1 - Heritage Guide 47)
Content for this title is released as soon as the latest issues become available to JSTOR.

The JSTOR collection in general can be accessed via the TCD Library Catalogue, under title or via the Databases and E-books link on the TCD Library Homepage.

JSTOR Irish collection

New journal added to the JSTOR archive

Ulster Journal of Archaeology (Ireland)
First Series, Vol. 1 (1853) – Third Series, Vol. 64 (2005)
Publisher: Ulster Archaeological Society

Previous Titles Added to Currently Published Titles

Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Arts & Sciences V)
Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (1824) – Vol. 3, No. 3 (1834)

Previously Missing Issues

The following previously missing issues have been added to the JSTOR archive.
All Ireland Review (Ireland)
Vol. 2, No. 40 (December 7, 1901);
Vol. 3, No. 9 (May 3, 1902);
Vol. 3, Nos. 23-24 (August 9-16, 1902);
Vol. 3, Nos. 28-29 (September 13-20, 1902)
Publication of this title ceased in 1907.

Archaeology Ireland (Ireland)
Vol. 2, No. 1 – Vol. 3, No. 1 ;
Vol. 4, Nos. 1-2 & 4 ;
Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 3 ;
Vol. 6, Nos. 3-4 ;
Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 & 4 ;
Vol. 10, Nos. 1-4 ;Vol. 11, Nos. 1-2 & 4 ;
Vol. 12, Nos. 1 & 4 ;
Vol. 13, No. 1
Vol. 15, No. 1 – Vol. 18, No. 1

Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society (Ireland)
Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 3

See the JSTOR website for further details and for all other new additions.

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

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

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.

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

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.