TCD Library e-Resources and Digital Service developments
Clíona Ní Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Digital Services Librarian, Trinity College Dublin
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Animated presentation: Online resources: TCD Databases and E-Books
Thursday, 25 November 2010
ProQuest resources in TCD
*Resources migrating to new ProQuest platform in 2011 and later.
IReL=IReL funded
ABI/Inform Global
American Film Institute Catalog (AFI Catalog)* IReL
Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) IReL
British Humanities Index
British Periodicals (Collection I)
Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations NOW: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) IReL
Documents on British Policies Overseas*
Early English Books Online (EEBO)*
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus* IReL
Film Index International* IReL
Film Indexes Online (FIO)* IReL
FT Archive*
GeoRef IReL(but not yet linking to GeoSciences World (not ProQuest))
Guardian/ Observer Historical Archive
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers *
Index to Theses (formerly from ASLIB) IReL
International Bibliography of Art *
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
Irish Times Archive and current file IReL
Joanna Briggs - Evidence Based Resources
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
LION (Literature Online)* IReL
LISA
MLA *
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue *
Nursing Journals NOW: Nursing and Allied Health Source
Palmer's Index to the Times *
Patrologia Latina*
Philosopher's Index IReL
RILM abstracts of music literature*
Social Services Abstracts IReL
Sociological Abstracts IReL
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900*
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts IReL
New ProQuest platform - Training
Training for Library Staff,
Please reply if you wish to attend.
Date: Thursday, December 9th
Time: 10.00-11.30 (North TR) followed by 12.00-12.30 (South TR – hands-on).
Venue: North Training Room (10.00-11.30)– presentation by ProQuest trainer *see Training outline below
South Training Room (12noon onwards) for some hands on practice on the new Proquest platform, with the Proquest trainer.
*Training outline
ProQuest’s New Platform:
1 hour (10-11 am)
• Single search box, subject areas and product start pages
• Advanced search
• Search results – faceted search options, document preview and more
• Right tools at the right time – spell check, cite this, export and more
• Search and publication alerts - email and RSS
30+ minutes (11-11.30am)
• My Research
• Tagging and shared lists
• Questions?
30+ minutes (12.00-12.30pm)
Hand-on training using the pcs in the South Training Room
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Ebooks and records in the Library catalogue. March 4, 2011 update.
Please note:
There is a general record for each package (and/or platform), both on the databases webpage and in the library catalogue. A package may contain further databases within it, these may not be on the databases page but will be in the catalogue.
The ebook platforms should be checked for the latest titles.
Individual books can be found on the platforms as soon as they become available.
The records are loaded to the TCD catalogue as we receive them.
ACLS Humanities ebooks (2651 titles in catalogue)
Alexander Street Press (437 titles in catalogue)
Books at Ovid i.e. LWW publications (362 books on platform, records in catalogue)
LWW: Nursing (Ovid) : LWW nursing books are on the Books@Ovid site.
Nursing@Ovid : The resource called Nursing@Ovid is more than a collection of ebooks. It provides a 'one-stop-shop' for nursing and midwifery information, both bibliographic and full-text (e-journals and e-books). Via a single interface, the Ovid resources: Books@Ovid, British Nursing Index, Maternity and Infant Care, and Ovid Nursing Database may be searched and a universal search of CINAHL, PubMed, ProQuest and ProQuest Nursing journals can be carried out from the same interface.
CISNet (*470 title records in catalogue. *[Jan 2011 - Growing collection])
Current Protocols Series (7 titles)
EEBO Early English Books Online (102,950 records in catalogue)
ECCO Eighteenth Century Collections Online (136,058 records in catalogue)
Empire Online (738 titles)
Hein Online (1556 titles) (new records added on a monthly basis)
NEW:
Knovel: 2716 Package includes titles in Engineering, Technology, Nanotechnology & ASM International Materials.
LexisNexis (7 ebook records in catalogue)
LION (*25477 records for LION ebooks loaded *[Jan 2011 - Growing collection])
LION ejournal records may be found via the A-Z or e-journal listing.
MEMSO Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (137 records).
Resource contains 500+ items and is growing resource. Check MEMSO database directly for full list of items. Records added to catalogue as they are received, i.e. twice yearly.
**NEW: Records link readers to the MEMSO interface rather than to pdfs as before.
MOML Making of Modern Law (21,814 records)
MyiLibrary (291 titles, including 116 nursing titles loaded March 2010). Growing collection. New records added as items purchased and record files received.
ORO Oxford Reference Online (197 titles in catalogue).
Dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. TCD Library subscribes to the Premium Collection, 197 titles in all.
Past Masters (15 titles)
RSC Royal Society of Chemistry (896 titles). Growing collection.
Stat!Ref (39 titles)
WWO Women Writers Online, textbase of Women Writers Project: 190 titles (loaded May 2010). Growing resource. Working with OCLC and WWO to obtain records for the full collection of 360+ titles which may be found on the WWO platform. Check platform for new texts added.
There may also be title access for some of these via EEBO although the format of the EEBO ebook will be different to that in WWO.
Ebook packages awaiting individual title records in Library catalogue (in progress):
Safari (subscription allows the choice of about 50 titles from a larger collection. These titles are chosen/changed on an annual basis). eMarc records will be available.
Discontinued IReL resources (no records, no access):
Wiley Reference :
Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics,
Encyclopedia Of Polymer Science and Technology
Handbook of Psychology,
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology,
SPIE Digital Library,
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Monday, 1 November 2010
Anatomy TV (from Primal Pictures) - Training
Trainer: resource developers, Primal Pictures
Date: Thursday, November 11th
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: North Training Room
The session will be aimed at academic staff. If you could like to attend, please contact Arlene Healy
Description:
New Library subscription: Anatomy TV
This teaching tool provides medically accurate 3D models of the human anatomy. The representation of the body is derived from medical scan data that has been interpreted by a team of Primal anatomists and then translated into three-dimensional images by graphics specialists. The anatomy visuals are accompanied by 3D animations that demonstrate function, biomechanics and surgical procedures. The resource also provides clinical videos and text to supplement the core anatomy data.
You can access Anatomy TV from the New Resources section of the Library database webpage. There's also a “How To” guide .
TCD Library’s 12 month subscription provides access to the Anatomy Plus Platinum Package, including the Dentistry module, ensuring this valuable teaching tool benefits as many academic departments as possible.
We aim to assess usage levels and relevancy to TCD academic programmes prior to a renewal of the subscription in late 2011.
Friday, 8 October 2010
State Papers Online - new resource from Cengage
TCD Library has recently purchased Parts II and III of State Papers Online from the provider, Gale: Cengage Learning, the provider of many of the History databases which may be accessed by Trinity College researchers and students.
A Royal Warrant to the Lords Justice of Ireland, sent from Hampton Court in May 1700 concerns Edward Geoghegan, of Castletown, Co. Westmeath, a man who had never been employed under the late king James, and had always shewed kindness to his protestant neighbours. An earlier letter, (1696), was to have reversed accusations of outlawries against Geoghegan. However, as he being in the letter styled gentleman, and in the record esquire [...] he could not receive the benefit of our letter. The 1700 warrant was intended to correct the earlier mistake and to secure a free pardon for Edward Geoghegan, esquire. (State Papers Online Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic)
TCD Library has had State Papers Online Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603 : Domestic since 2008. State Papers Online Part II, The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council completes the papers of the Government of Britain for the Tudor period. Dr S. Alford of the University of Cambridge writes that these two parts give us practically all the sources we need to investigate the government of the Tudor kings and queens in microscopic detail.
The three parts of State Papers Online purchased by the Library, may be consulted via the usual catalogue record for the State Papers Online Part 1 and via the New Resources tab on the Library’s website.
New resources
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Wilson's OmniFile Full Text Mega
The OmniFile contains indexing, abstracting databases and a certain amount of full text. The TCD link resolver is also on WilsonWeb, and links to other full text resources held by the Library if the full text isn’t in the OmniFile.
Omnifile Full Text, Mega Edition features all the content of these full-text databases as well the full runs of every full-text journal they index.
[However, please note, there are indexes within these databases which may not have corresponding full text within the database, for example in cases where a journal is not available electronically. In these cases, the TCD link resolver will lead from WilsonWeb to the Library catalogue for paper copies, where available.]:
Education
General Science
Humanities
Readers' Guide
Social Sciences
Wilson Business
For example: Social Sciences Full Text includes the Social Science Index: http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/socsci.cfm
Social Sciences Index: This database delivers the same indexing offered in Social Sciences Full Text but SSI itself has no abstracts or links to full text articles.
TCD has access to [within the Wilson Omnifile full text mega] Social Sciences Full Text [Sept. 2010] and so has access to abstracts and links to full text articles in addition to the original Social Sciences Index.
OmniFile Full Text Mega on WilsonWeb also contains the full text from ONLY the journals in selected databases to which Wilson has full text rights, namely
Applied Science & Technology Full Text
Art Full Text
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
Some features of OmniFile' Social Sciences database [Sept. 2010]:
§ High quality indexing of over 625 periodicals as far back as 1983, nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
§ Full text of articles from some 215 journals as far back as 1995.
§ Visit Journal Directory for a searchable list of the journals covered.