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.
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
RILM (A&I) database moves from ProQuest to EBSCOhost
As of January 1, 2015, the bibliographic databases of the Répertoire
International de Littérature Musicale—RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
is available for subscription via the EBSCO platform only. TCD Library continues its subscription to RILM, and the catalogue record now points at the EBSCOhost site.
As a result of this database move, RILM contents are now included in Stella searches.
As a result of this database move, RILM contents are now included in Stella searches.
Friday, 16 January 2015
New database: Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) formerly Hand Press Book Database
[Free under the agreement with CONUL (Consortium of National and University Libraries) - Oct. 2014]
The HPB Database (previously called the Hand Press Book Database) is a steadily growing collection of files of catalogue records from major European and North American research libraries covering items of European printing of the hand-press period (c.1455-c.1830) integrated into one file. This makes it possible for information to be retrieved in one single search across all files.
As the digitisation of collections in contributing libraries progresses, more and more catalogue records point to digital presentations of the early printed books. The HPB Database is of interest to librarians and any one else with academic pursuits across many fields of study that use printed books as source material. It is especially valuable for research in intellectual history, social history, and transmission of thought, as well as in the history of printing and the history of the book.
It may be accessed for information retrieval and downloading by CERL member institutions, their staff and users.
Content: Bibliographic database
The HPB Database (previously called the Hand Press Book Database) is a steadily growing collection of files of catalogue records from major European and North American research libraries covering items of European printing of the hand-press period (c.1455-c.1830) integrated into one file. This makes it possible for information to be retrieved in one single search across all files.
As the digitisation of collections in contributing libraries progresses, more and more catalogue records point to digital presentations of the early printed books. The HPB Database is of interest to librarians and any one else with academic pursuits across many fields of study that use printed books as source material. It is especially valuable for research in intellectual history, social history, and transmission of thought, as well as in the history of printing and the history of the book.
It may be accessed for information retrieval and downloading by CERL member institutions, their staff and users.
Content: Bibliographic database
PsycTESTS (EBSCO) - TRIAL
PsycTESTS *Please note, this trial period is only 30 days: Trial: 16 January 2015 - 15 February 2015.
Requested by Geraldine Fitzgerald, Subject Librarian, Psychology & Education.
The PsycTESTS database is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA). PsycTESTS is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration. This is a bibliographic database, which also contains full text and multimedia. (76% of test records contain the actual test or test items.) More details here.
Requested by Geraldine Fitzgerald, Subject Librarian, Psychology & Education.
The PsycTESTS database is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA). PsycTESTS is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration. This is a bibliographic database, which also contains full text and multimedia. (76% of test records contain the actual test or test items.) More details here.
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
NAXOS Music Library - Database Trial. September 2014 - 30 November 2014
- NAXOS Music Library Trial: September 2014 - 30 November 2014.
- Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online
classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more
than 102,310 CDs with more than 1,485,200 tracks of both standard and
rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.
The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 650 record labels, with more labels joining every month. Along with classical music, jazz, world, and pop/rock are also represented.
We would like to ask all users to log-out from our services properly at the end of each session by clicking the red "LOGOUT" button located at the Manual Bar at the top of the screen.
Contact Roy Stanley, Subject Librarian for Music for username and password details, for the duration of this trial.
No. of users: 10 users
South Asia Archive - Database - Trial - until 27th December 2014
- South Asia Archive (Taylor and Francis) Trial period: 12 November - 27th December 2014.
Please NOTE: this trial is available both ON and OFF campus.
The South Asia Archive is a fully searchable digital archive resource providing access to over 4 million pages of rare and valuable research and teaching materials (both primary and secondary) across the humanities and social sciences. Focused on South Asia, the Archive comprises material sourced from collectors and archivists in India by the South Asia Research Foundation.
The South Asia Archive will give digital access to rare and out of print materials ranging from the mid-18th to mid-20th Century in a mix of English and vernacular languages.
You will be able to search across multiple document types, including:
• Runs of journals
• Census documents
• Legislative documents
• Film ephemera
This data also ranges across a wide variety of different subject areas such as, Art History, Economics, Law, Science, Education, Literature.
For databases, or other e-resources, on trial, please see the Trial tab on the Library's databases page.Trial databases are normally available 'On Campus' only. This Archive is the exception.
Loeb Classical Library - Trial - until January 2015.
The following database is on trial, available on campus only:
Loeb Classical Library Trial: 16/10/14-9/01/15.
The written treasures of the ancient Greek and Roman world.
James Loeb founded the Loeb Classical Library in 1911, to make the work of classical authors accessible - regardless of knowledge of Greek or Latin.
Key features include:
• Single- and dual-language reading modes
• Sophisticated Bookmarking and Annotation features
• Tools for sharing Bookmarks and Annotations
• Greek keyboard
• User account and My Loeb content saved in perpetuity
• Intuitive Search and Browse
• Inclusion of every Loeb volume in print
• Regular uploading of new and revised volumes
Loeb Classical Library Trial: 16/10/14-9/01/15.
The written treasures of the ancient Greek and Roman world.
James Loeb founded the Loeb Classical Library in 1911, to make the work of classical authors accessible - regardless of knowledge of Greek or Latin.
Key features include:
• Single- and dual-language reading modes
• Sophisticated Bookmarking and Annotation features
• Tools for sharing Bookmarks and Annotations
• Greek keyboard
• User account and My Loeb content saved in perpetuity
• Intuitive Search and Browse
• Inclusion of every Loeb volume in print
• Regular uploading of new and revised volumes
For databases, or other e-resources, on trial, please see the Trial tab on the Library's databases page.
Trial databases are normally available 'On Campus' only.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)