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.

Top Ten most used MyiLibrary ebooks, Jan-Sept 2008

100 Medical Emergencies for Finals ; Radcliffe Publishing ; 9781857757477
No. of times consulted: 114

British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland ; Cambridge University Press ; 9780511121722
No. of times consulted: 108

Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide ; Taylor & Francis ; 9780203482889
No. of times consulted: 77

Good Research Guide, The: For Small Scale Social Research Projects. Open UP Study Skills.
Open University Press ; 9780335229680
No. of times consulted: 75

Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) ; BRILL ; 9789004139596
No. of times consulted: 56

Handbook of Child Psychology, Volume Four: Child Psychology in Practice ; Wiley ; 9780470050552
No. of times consulted: 41

How to Get a PhD: A Handboook for students and their supervisors ; Open University Press ; 9780335227457
No. of times consulted: 40

How to Write a Thesis ; Open University Press ; 9780335226597
No. of times consulted: 35

Mayes’ Midwifery: A Textbook for Midwives ; Elsevier Publishing ; 9780702026164
No. of times consulted: 34

PhD Application Handbook. The ; Open University Press ; 9780335224241
No. of times consulted: 31.


The following have been consulted once only between Jan-Oct 2008:

Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason
Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy
Applied Statistics: Using SPSS, STATISTICA, MATLAB and R
Art of Crime, The: Plays and Films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet
Birth of the Clinic, The: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945, A. Blackwell Companions to Art History.
Companion to the Philosophy of Education, A
Ethics, Law and Society: Volume III
Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 10, Assessment Psychology
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 3, Biological Psychology
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 4, Experimental Psychology
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 5, Personality and Social Psychology
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 6, Developmental Psychology
Handbook of Psychology: Volume 8, Clinical Psychology
Human Identity and Bioethics
Midwives Book, The: Or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered
Reconceiving the Renaissance
Reflective Practice: A Guide for Nurses and Midwives

Ebooks and GEAC, Library OPAC

Ebook packages which HAVE MARC records for each title in the Library catalogue:
ACLS Humanities ebooks,
ECCO
Hein
LexisNexis
LWW Nursing
MOML
MyiLibrary
Past Masters

Ebook packages which DON’T have MARC records for the individual titles in GEAC (although there is a general record for the package in the catalogue):
LION
SAFARI
ORO (Oxford Reference Online) 250 books
SourceOECD
WWO (There may be title access for some of these via EEBO although the format of the EEBO ebook will be different to that in WWO.)

*New resources (record loading to be advised):
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) 800 titles.
MEMSO (Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online) 500 titles

MyiLibrary ebooks

Records for MyiLibrary ebooks purchased through Oasis are being constantly added to the Library catalogue. They can be searched in the usual way, by author, title, etc. The whole list of MyiLibrary electronic books can be found by searching under author=MyiLibrary as well.

MyiLibrary ebooks

A reminder to all Subject Librarians to order your ebooks from MyiLibrary using Oasis as soon as you can. (The Sterling/Euro exchange rate is in our favour at the moment.) Start from here. If you don't have a note of your username and password, or need any other help please contact Cliona or Arlene. Titles already purchased can be accessed here

Trial ebook database - MyiLibrary

Coutts eBook collection, MyiLibrary: trial 11 June - 7 July.
Access here

MyiLibrary offers content from publishers such as: McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Springer and Elsevier.
It provides access to intergovernmental publications. Subjects covered include Education, Law, Medicine, History, Science, etc.
The collection holds 70,000 titles at the moment.

Can you have a look at MyiLibrary and make any academics/researchers in your areas who might be interested aware of the trial?
Purchase of the collection will depend, as usual, on relevance, feedback and available resources. Could you send any comments you have to either me or Arlene.