Westlaw IE (Thomson Reuters Round Hall) - New platform

Westlaw IE, the online legal research service for Irish law is being upgraded. There will be a new platform with a new interface and improved discovery tools.

The new westlaw.ie platform is due to be launched July 31st, 2012.
The old site will be updated until July 31, after which it will no longer be available.

JUSTIS

The discontinuation of Justis Criminal Law Online Service will not affect other Justis services or the data improvements planned and due for release after 1^st June:

[Note: Firstlaw Complete been renamed Justis Irish Cases and Legislation]

Justis Irish Cases

·         Updated with full digest within 24 to 48 hours of judgment release on Courts.ie

·         Judgments fully cross-linked on JustCite including addition of “how cited” relationship information

JustCite

·         Full indexing of the Irish Law Reports Monthly from 1976

·         Mark up of legislative amendments and cross links

New platform: full redesign of the Justis platform that will include a number of functionality improvements as well as a new look and new features.

Preview information on changes and improvements to both services can be found at www.justis.com/2012.

Justis Criminal Law Online Service Termination

The Criminal Law Online Service is being discontinued by the publisher.

Message from Justis Publishing:

Please be aware that with regret we have taken the decision to close down the Criminal Law Online Service (CLOS) from 1^st June 2012.

  

Whilst updates will cease you will be able to access the archive of CLOS in perpetuity.

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.

Monasticon Hibernicum - new, free, resource

Monasticon Hibernicum Project:
Early Christian Ecclesiastical Settlement in Ireland 5th to 12th Centuries.
by Ailbhe MacShamhráin with Nora White and Aidan Breen.
General director of the project Kim R. McCone, Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Ollscoil Náisiúnta na hÉireann, Magh Nuadat.

Inspired by the monumental Monasticon Hibernicum of eighteenth-century antiquarian and clergyman Mervyn Archdall (available to TCD-affiliated users via ECCO), the project [by Ailbhe MacShamhráin with Nora White and Aidan Breen] is more than a revised version of Archdalls opus. While Archdalls encyclopedia of pre-Reformation monasteries and abbies covered some five-hundred and fifty sites in eight-hundred pages, this database of pre-twelfth century ecclesiastical settlement is much wider in scope, recording ten times the number of sites.

This database has been included on the TCD Databases and E-Books, New Resources page and will be included in the catalogue in due course.

American Medical Association, JAMA, new website

JAMA Network Website to launched

The AMA is pleased to announce that JAMA and the specialty Archives Journals will launch on Silverchair's SCM6 platform on Monday, May 14, 2012, as The JAMA Network. The new site will offer fully integrated access to the research, reviews, and perspectives shaping the future of medicine.

TCD note: LINKS now working from the TCD catalogue

EBSCO eJournals A to Z list and LinkSource linkresolver

The TCD catalogue's A to Z of electronic journals is working again. The link resolver, linking citations to full text articles is also back. If there are any further issues with this, please contact the Library at once, either via the Duty Librarian or directly to the Electronic Resources Librarian.