New Resources: Drama Online: plays and acting master classes: video, audio, and full text.

Online plays and acting master classes: video, audio, and full text.

NEW: Nick Hern Books, LA Theatre Works, Shakespeare’s Globe, Stage on Screen, Hamlet, Patsy Rodenburg

TCD Library has held a subscription for several years to the database: Drama Online.

We have now purchased six new, valuable and individual resources on the Drama Online platform, adding significant video, audio and full text material to the resources already available.

The NEW Drama Online resources are:

1. NHB Modern Plays (Nick Hern Books): 400 play scripts, screenplays and theatre books, featuring works from Conor McPherson, Enda Walsh and Nicholas Wright. 
2. L.A. Theatre Works: 350+ streamed AUDIO plays, from LATW, an American audio (radio) theatre company. Readings from literary classics, modern works by American playwrights, Pulitzer Prize-winning titles and contemporary works. The collection also includes original LATW docudramas.
3. Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen Film Collection (Globe on Screen): VIDEO recordings of 21 of the Shakespeare’s Globe’s stage productions.
4. Stage on Screen: Four VIDEO plays from London’s Greenwich Theatre: The Duchess of Malfi (Webster), Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), School for Scandal (Sheridan) and Volpone (Jonson). Includes interviews, costume designs, productions stills, and background on the play and production.
5. Hamlet the Film: 1 VIDEO: Hamlet by William Shakespeare, adapted by Michael Grandage (Genesius Pictures). Maxine Peake’s Hamlet is a female character who takes on a male mantle.
6. Rodenburg [Shakespeare in the present]: VIDEO: an acting master class with Patsy Rodenburg, (Head of Voice, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London)  is recognized as one of the world’s leading voice teachers as well as a renowned authority on Shakespeare.

More details and a link to each resource can be found on the New Resources section of our Library’s Databases and E-Books page.

Each resource is also listed on the Library’s Databases and E-Books A-Z or can be accessed directly on the Drama Online site.

 

 

New Resource: designinform

New platform, designinform, consists of three databases: Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), a new ongoing abstracting and indexing service; Design ProFILES (DP), a comprehensive dictionary of design and designers; and ReVIEW, a full text database of decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Access to this resource at present is via the link above and the New Resources page on the Library website.

New Resource: State Papers Online Part IV.

The fourth and final part of State Papers Online, Part IV: The Stuarts, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council, completes a series which offers students and researchers unprecedented access to documents covering the full range of the Tudor and Stuart governments’ domestic and foreign activities. The final installment comprises foreign relations papers from the late Stuart period (1603-1714) with correspondence between the British governments and those of Europe, Barbary (modern Morocco), Russia, Turkey, Scotland and Ireland.

The Library, the School of History and Humanities and the Provost Office worked together to source funding for the purchase this final part of State Papers.

DRAPIer: Digital Research and Projects in Ireland - new resource

DRAPIer: Digital Research and Projects in Ireland.
DRAPIer is a free, interactive database of Irish digital humanities projects in many fields, including, Literature and Language, Folklore, History, Geography, Law. DRAPIer also documents the methods, formats and standards that are being used by the projects so that new projects can learn to use similar techniques, or so established projects can find related work in their field. At present 57 projects are listed in DRAPIer repository. DRAPIer is produced by the DHO, the Digital Humanities Observatory - a project of the Royal Irish Academy.


Subject: Histories and Humanities, General

Content: Full text, Data

MLA JIL - new resource

MLA JIL
The Moldern Languages Association Job Information List.

Published by the MLA in both electronic and print versions, the JIL is the recognized professional source for announcements of full-time faculty positions available in the fields of English and foreign languages in North American colleges and universities. The online JIL is an electronic database that job seekers can search by field or language, by geographic region, by key words or phrases in a job description (e.g., "women's studies," "Romanticism," or "drama"), and by rank.

TCD's subscription is active until 30th July 2012.

Irish Origins - new resource

Irish Origins provides access to Griffith's Valuation, the 'census substitute' for mid-nineteenth century Ireland; including maps and plans. It also provides access to other censuses and census substitutes, Wills, Marriages, Military and Burial records, Passenger lists, Directories and Electoral registers. The Irish Origins Image Library,and an Irish Genealogy Guide are also available.

Together with the detailed indexes, transcriptions, maps and images, Irish Origins also has in-depth research articles giving the full background and history of each collection, including tips and techniques on how to read, interpret and navigate your way though the wealth of family history data.

Griffith's valuation (1847-1864) -- Dublin City Census (1851) -- Dublin City Census (1901: Rotunda Ward) -- Census of Elphin (1749) -- William Smith O'Brien Petition (1848-9) -- Irish 'strays' in England & Wales Census (1841) -- Irish 'strays' in England & Wales Census (1871) -- Tithe Defaulters (1831) -- Electoral Registers for Ireland (1832-38) -- Dublin Will and Grant Books Index (Marriage records) (1270-1858) -- Index of Irish Wills (1484-1858) -- Dublin Will and Grant Books Index (1270-1858) -- Phillimore & Thrift, Indexes to Irish Wills (1536-1858) -- Sir Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland (1536-1858) -- Memorials of the Dead - Galway & Mayo -- Brian J. Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead -- Militia Attestations Index (1872-1915) -- Ireland's Memorial records (1914-18) -- The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders) -- British & Irish Passenger Lists (1890 & 1891) -- Transatlantic Migration (1858-1870) -- Directories of Ireland -- Dublin City 1847 Ordnance Survey Town Plans -- Griffith's Survey Maps & Plans (1847-1864) -- Irish Origins library (7 collections, 19th century)

New Resource: Dublin Castle Records, 1798-1926

The Dublin Castle administration in Ireland was the government of Ireland under English and later British rule, from the twelfth century until 1922, based at Dublin Castle. Dublin Castle Records, 1798-1926 contains records of the British administration in Ireland prior to 1922, a crucial period which saw the rise of Parnell and the Land War in 1880 through to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1921. This collection comprises materials from Series CO 904, The National Archives, Kew, UK.

Provided by Gale Cengage as part of their Archives Unbound collection.
There is a full description of the resource on their website here.

Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project (New Resource)

TCD Library has taken out a 1 year subscription (Oct 2011) to The Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. (See the New Resources tab on the Library's Databases and Ebooks page.)



This project is a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin).



The [Samuel] Beckett Digital Manuscript Project consists of two parts: (a) a digital archive of Samuel Beckett's manuscripts, organized in 26 research modules. Each of these modules comprises digital facsimiles and transcriptions of all the extant manuscripts pertaining to an individual text, or in the case of shorter texts, a group of texts. (b) a series of 26 volumes, analyzing the genesis of the texts contained in the corresponding modules

Chicago Manual of Style - New resource

Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. has just been added as a New Resource. Access, through the New Resources tab on the databases page, is immediate - both ON and OFF campus. A catalogue record will follow in due course and thereafter, the CMOS will appear on the main databases page as well.

Portico

Portico

Portico is an electronic archiving service. Portico provides all libraries supporting the archive with campus-wide access to archived content when specific trigger events occur and when titles are no longer available from the publisher or other sources. Portico preserves scholarly literature published in electronic form and ensures that these materials remain accessible.

Subjects: General
Content: Full text

The IReL subscription to the SPIE Digital Library has been discontinued (see IReL website). The SPIE journal titles available on Portico have being added to the A-Z listing: Journal of Applied Remote Sensing; Optical Engineering Journal; Proceedings of the SPIE (or The SPIE Conference Proceedings Series). Catalogue records will be created which will redirect to titles archived on Portico. The link to Portico (also available on the New Resources page of the Library website) gives a title-listing and access to all available journals on that service.

Please check New Resources regularly for updates on new database titles.

Rock's Backpages - New resource

Rock's Backpages
An archive (15,000 articles) of reviews, interviews and features on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, sourced from the most influential music publications.

Editor: Barney Hoskyns
Subject: Music, Education, Sociology
Full text

Brill's New Jacoby - New resource

New Jacoby (annual subscription) :

Felix Jacoby's 1st 3 parts of Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (FGrHist) (1923 -1958), included fragments of 856 Greek historians' writings, and a commentary on many of these fragments. In 1999, indexes to the 3 parts were published. From 1998 onwards, the continuation of Jacoby’s work, edited by Guido Schepens produced FGrHist continued: Part IV (Biography and Antiquarian Literature) .

Brill's New Jacoby (BNJ) includes those fragments which have been edited by Jacoby: parts I-III, adds commentaries on the fragments previously lacking commentary, biographies of authors, bibliographies and an English translation. BNJ will be published online in batches of 50-60 fragmentary authors every six months, beginning in December 2006 and ending in 2013.

The continuation of Jacoby (Vols. IV- ) do not form a part of the BNJ.

See review of BNJ, written Nov. 08 The Classical Review, Vol. 59, no. 2
See Brill website description of BNJ

Brill's New Pauly - New resource

New Pauly (purchased outright) : Encyclopedia of the Ancient World

Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider
English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar
Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester
English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry

The complete original Der Neue Pauly together with Brill’s New Pauly are offered online. New Pauly Online is automatically updated whenever a new volume is published. New Pauly Online provides the following features: - fully searchable - fully cross-referenced - allows for basic and advanced searches - browsable alphabetical index in both German and English - includes all maps and illustrations.

See Brill website for more details of New Pauly

ReVIEW - New Resource

ReVIEW - Following on our recent trial access (ended 1 August 2009) it has been decided to purchase ReVIEW.

Subject, Art History:
ReVIEW is a service that aims to digitize many of the most important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries, making them available in a searchable form online. [Publisher: Design Research Publications]

The first two titles in the ReVIEW project are now available:
THE STUDIO vols.1-50, 1893-1910
DEUTSCHE KUNST UND DEKORATION vols. 1-27 1897-1911

Knovel - New resource

Knovel

TCD Library is commencing an annual subscription to Knovel.
The subscription period will be October 1, 2009 - September 30, 2010.
Complementary access for the period 10-30 September 2009 is to be set up.

The subscription will provide full access to the 20 subject sections in the Knovel collection (excluding the Premium Content). In addition, TCD Library will be subscribing to both Transportation AND Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.

I dizionari Zanichelli online - New subscription

I dizionari Zanichelli online - New Subscription
Two Zanichelli online dictionaries, Italian and English: Lo Zingarelli and Il Ragazzini. Click on Inizia consultazione beside the dictionary you wish to consult.

They can be found under Zanichelli on the Library's website, under the Information Resources Databases and E-Books page.

Hungarian Reformation collection - New resource

Hungarian Reformation collection from Brill.

This collection offers a comprehensive survey of the original writings of the Hungarian reformers. It includes texts from the period of the first stirrings of reform in the 1540s through to works written for the established churches of the region during the 1650s.

It is edited by Dr. Graeme Murdock of the Department of History in Trinity College Dublin.

See the Library website's Information Resources page for details of electronic resources on trial and recently acquired resources.

New York Review of Books - New resource

TCD Library has recently taken out a subscription to the New York Review of Books.

We have access to both the Review's current issue and to the archives.

The subscription will expire on April 30, 2019.

The links will be added to the Library's A-Z listing of ejournals on the Library's website.

Newly acquired TCD Library e-resources

The latest listing of our new e-resources with details of their coverage is to be found on the Library Information Resouces page.

Newly acquired databases:
Oxford Music Online/Grove Music Online
State Papers Online (Part One 1509-1603)
British Biographical Archive Online
The Guardian/Observer Historical Archive
ScienceDirect Backfiles
19th Century British Library Newspapers
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection

Also
New subscriptions to:
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
ARTstor

The EIO database is on trial until Dec. 12th.

Scarcely anything in the way of a riot …

The scrap of a sentence above comes from the Freeman's Journal […] and is part of a contemporary account of scenes at Donnybrook Fair in August 1838.

Trinity College Dublin was mentioned in the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle (1807):
An algebraical proof of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, [...], has been lately discovered by Francis Burke, A. B. a student in the University of Dublin. The discovery has been honoured with a distinguished premium from the Board of Trinity College.

These reports were both found in a set of two new databases purchased by the Library: The British Library Newspaper Collection. The Collection consists of two databases of primary source material, the 19th Century British Library Newspapers and the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.

Rev. Charles Burney (1757-1817) gathered London and provincial British newsletters and newspapers. His collection also contains material from the Americas, Europe and India. When bound, this material ran to more than 700 volumes. These have now been digitised and made available by the British Library, along with the 19th Century British Library Newspapers. This second database contains material (over 2 million newspaper pages, national and regional) from the collections held in the British Library and the National Library of Scotland.

To find these collections in TCD Library, search the Main (not Periodicals) Library online catalogue for British Library Newspapers or for either of the two database titles, 1. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection, and 2. Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers. These collections may also be accessed from the Databases section of the Library Website, Information Resources: Databases.