TCD Library has recently purchased access to 51 titles from the Autrement Mêmes collection, published by L’Harmattan, Paris.

This is a collection directed by Professor Roger Little (Fellow Emeritus (French), TCD). According to Professor Little, these texts 'are difficult to find, often available only in specialised libraries, sometimes indeed extremely rare [...] all genres and all relevant periods are covered, mainly prose texts, however, from the 18th century to the latter part of French colonialism'.

Each title can be found catalogued individually in the Trinity Library system, Stella, and all 51 titles can be seen together on the database Autrement Mêmes.

For a full list of TCD Library's databases of journals and E-Books, current, new, and on trial, use the Databases and E-Books link on the Library homepage, found under the Stella search box.

Clíona Ní Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian.

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.

E-Book collection : TRIAL until 13 August. Morgan & Claypoole's Synthesis

SYNTHESIS (Morgan & Claypool's e-book collection)  

The trial runs until 13 Aug 2013

SYNTHESIS is an information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. The basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page electronic book [Lecture], that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field. SYNTHESIS is organized by series. It is a growing collection.

You can see all the databases currently on trial on the Databases and E-Books Trial Databases tab on the Library's homepage. 

Trial databases are not available off campus.

RSC : new platform to be launched

RSC Publishing is about to launch a new platform on July 27th 2010, which, it is promised, will provide powerful, fast access to journals, books and databases. Both platforms will be available in parallel for a time, until any issues arising from the changeover are resolved.

The reader will be able to search across 977,589 articles using one simple interface and refine the results through intuitive filters.

* All dynamic links to content will be set to resolve to the new platform.

Further details to be posted when platform changes.

Ebooks and records in the Library catalogue. 30 June 2010 update.

Ebook packages which have (MARC) records for their individual titles in the Library catalogue:
Please note:
There is a general record for each package (and/or platform), both on the databases webpage and in the library 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
Books at Ovid (24 titles)

CISNet c200 titles. Growing collection

EEBO Early English Books Online
ECCO Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Empire Online

Hein Online (new records added on a monthly basis)

LION (17377 records for LION ebooks loaded, LION ejournal records in A-Z)

LWW: Nursing (Ovid) (338 records/ebooks)

LWW nursing books are on the Books@Ovid site.
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, CINAHL, British Nursing Index, Maternity and Infant Care and Proquest Nursing can be searched.

MEMSO Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (500+ items). Growing resource.
(108 records loaded, April 2010). These download PDFs at the moment. The suppliers will be changing their system in the next few months to link readers to the MEMSO interface.

MOML Making of Modern Law

MyiLibrary (116 nursing titles loaded March 2010). Growing collection, i.e.new records added as record files received.

ORO Oxford Reference Online (197 titles with records 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 (833 titles). Growing collection.
Titles for 1968-2009 have records in database.
There are 66 titles in the recently acquired 2010 batch. Records will be loaded onto the catalogue when they become available.

WWO Women Writers Online, textbase of Women Writers Project: 190 titles (loaded May 2010). 322 titles on platform in all. Growing resource. See here 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 progress):
Knovel - c2000 Engineering, Technology books (underway)

RSC 2010 ebook collection. (See list of 66 titles). Titles for 1968-2009 have records in database.(See above)

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 from September 2010.

WWO Women Writers Online, textbase of Women Writers Project: 190 records for titles in Library catalogue - see above for more details. There are 322 titles on platform in total. See here for new texts added.

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,
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry

SpringerLINK - some general information

SpringerLINK full text of 1336 ejournals and some eBooks.

Through an IReL (Irish Research eLibrary) subscription, Trinity College Library has access to the full text of 1336 electronic journals on the SpringerLINK database platform. These ejournals cover the fields of biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities and economics. Kluwer Academic journals are now part of this package; however Brill Academic Publisher is not.

In general, with the exception of the book series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, the eBooks on SpringerLINK do not form part of the IReL subscription and are not available to TCD users.

Of the top four most-used journals in TCD on SpringerLINK during the last year, only one is in the TCD print collection. However, all ejournals might be available through other Library database platforms. For example, the most used ejournal: Jrnl of Autism and Developmental Disorders is on Academic Search Premier : 1993 to present (Embargo: 1 year), ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source : 1997 to present (Embargo: 1 year) and SpringerLINK : 1997 to present .

SpringerLINK generally does not have an embargo on the most recent issues, unlike the other two platforms mentioned, although its coverage may not encompass an equivalent number of years.

An individual user can register from within TCD’s account (that is, from where you can see the database by finding it through the Library system) and this allows the use of features such as RSS feeds and favourites linking. Downloads are free for the journals to which TCD Library subscribes, but if other items outside our subscriptions are found, these can be purchased from SpringerLINK via your personalized homepage. To avoid paying twice for the one resource, a user should check first however, that the required item is not already available through the Library from another supplier.

Springer is developing a new, more user-friendly interface at the moment and plan to launch this in 2010. A feature of this new interface will be a facility to search by Citations which should be a useful tool for all researchers.

TCD Library databases can be reached from the main Library Web page under Databases & E-Books or by searching the catalogue for the Database name or the journal title.

On trial: BioOne

BioOne

Trial access until end of July 2009.

150 titles covering aspects of Biological, Ecological and Environmental Sciences. BioOne is a not-for-profit collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academia and the private sector. Researchers masy set up their own profile and save search alerts and lists of favourite journals.

RSC and ebooks

Not all books published by the RSC become part of the RSC eBook Collection.

There are a number of reasons for this, such as not having the right to publish a book in digital format or other contractual issues.

This is the case with the 2nd Edition of Nanochemistry, for example, which includes material from other publishers.

For a list of books not included in the RSC eBook Collection, click here.

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

RSC E-book Collection

RSC E-book Collection is now available from our databases page. This resource provides access to more than 700 titles published between 1968-2008 and a further collection published in 2009.

MARC records will be uploaded to the Catalogue in due course.

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.

HeinOnline ebooks - records in Library catalogue

HeinOnline Legal Classics Library. Records for the ebooks in this collection have been loaded into the Library catalogue.

American Council of Learned Societies - ACLS - ebook database

ACLS contains more than 1,600 ebooks. These books are findable through the Library catalogue.

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.