IReL funded e-resources

For detailed information on IReL funded e-resources, check the IReL resource list .

This list contains information on both resources available and resources no longer available to TCD Library under IReL consortial deals.

There are negotiations underway with College Officers to secure funds for institutional subscriptions to such resources. Updates on these will be posted as they become known.

IReL funded e-resources - March 2010 update

IReL electronic resources renegotiated for 2010:

HSS:
LexisNexis,
OUP Reference Collection

STM:
ACM Digital Library
Annual Reviews
American Society for Microbiology Journals
BMJ Journals
American Medical Association Journals, including JAMA

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 11 Journals – see IReL site for final title listing
Nature Publishing Group Journals – see IReL site for final title listing

OSA – Optics Infobase
Science

IReL funded e-resources - update on Nature Journals

Nature Journals
IReL subscription to Nature Journals was renewed on February 26th, 2010.

However, 6 titles were not included in the renewal due to low use across the consortium.
Titles NOT renewed are:
Cancer Gene Therapy
Molecular Therapy
Nature Chemical Biology
Nature Photonics
Nature Physics
Neuropsychopharmacology

Nature Publishing Group Journals – see IReL site for final title listing

February 2010 - Access to IReL funded e-resources

Further to the update of February 4th.

Some resources (see below) are no longer available to TCD Library under IReL consortial deals. There are negotiations under way with College Officers to secure funds for institutional subscriptions to such resources.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
NO ACCESS
No order will placed under IReL due to the high "cost per use" (€2.34) of this resource and the 2010 price increase (2%). Access was switched off with effect from Friday 19th Feb 2010.
Access to REP is not expected to be reinstated for a number of weeks.

British Medical Journals (BMJ)
NO ACCESS
Negotiations are under way. However, the publisher will not extend access during negotiation period so no there is no access currently to the full text content.

IReL resources RENEWED for 2010:

STM
ACCESS AVAILABLE:
American Chemical Society Journals
American Association for Cancer Research Journals,
Emerald EMX175
Genetics (single title)
Journal of Biological Chemistry
New England Journal of Medicine
Society for General Microbiology Journals
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

HSS
ACCESS AVAILABLE:
ACLS Humanities E-books
Index to Theses
Irish Newspaper Archives
Women Writers Online.

Knovel - Training

You are invited to attend a training session on Knovel, provided by the vendor.

If you would like to attend please contact Arlene to book a place.

Date: Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Time: 2.30pm - 4.00pm
Venue: North Training Room
Session suitable for: Any staff dealing with users and their reference queries

TCD Library began an annual subscription to Knovel, an e-book collection aimed at engineers and scientists, on October 1, 2009. The subscription provides full access to the 20 subject sections (over 1,800 titles) in the Knovel collection (excluding the Premium Content). In addition, TCD Library subscribed to both Transportation AND Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.

This is one of our largest aggregated collection of e-books serving the needs of staff and students and contains interesting value-added features.

The Knovel trainer will provide an introduction to the content coverage, how to browse, search and use the personalisation feature, My Knovel. Knovel enables users to extract data from the books for further analysis and the session will focus further on Knovel’s data analysis tools.

This database of e-books can be accessed from the Library's databases page at present. Records for the books will be uploaded into the catalogue in due course.

February 2010- Access to IReL funded e-resources

Update

ALL of the IReL agreements expired on December 31st and most of the publishers/vendors provided us with informal extensions of contract (i.e. access to the resources) pending negotiations of new contracts.

Notice of the allocation of IReL funding was received from the HEA a number of days ago (end of January) allowing negotiations of IReL subscriptions to commence. As around 100 separate agreements must be negotiated, it is unlikely that agreements will be finalised in all cases before the end of the informal extensions. As a result, there will be interruptions in accessing IReL journals and databases. The Library regrets any such loss of access and every effort is being made by the negotiating agents, the IReL office and the IReL Steering group to expedite this process.

In the meantime, it is not possible to supply a list of resources where grace periods have expired as we don't know which ones are affected until we lose access. Catalogue records have not been amended yet to reflect the resources’ changes of status. We will update you if this happens.

If you become aware of loss of access to a resource it is important that you inform Arlene (ccing Clíona)

At the moment we know that the grace periods for the following have expired
BMJ journals
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The IReL office is investigating if these can be 'switched on' while negotiations are ongoing.
Please continue to contact Arlene/Clíona if you have any queries.

Times Literary Supplement

The current Times Literary Supplement [online version] is not available for purchase on an institutional basis or on the basis of IP access. The provider may make it available in the future and the Library will keep itself informed on this. Some articles are available for free on the publisher's site. Trinity College Library holds the hardcopy (paper) version of the TLS, which is current.

TLS Centenary Archive, the electronic archive which covers a time period up to 2005 is available through Trinity College Library.