Friday 29 March 2019

Two more IRel Databases

Hello All,
The following new online resources are now available both on and off-campus via the Library Services databases A-Z page 

HeinOnline Academic Core Collection
HeinOnline is the world’s largest image-based legal research database. It contains more than 165 million pages and 200,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing comprehensive coverage from the inception of more than 2,600 law-related periodicals. 

PNAS – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)

PNAS is one of the world's most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, publishing more than 3,200 research papers annuallyThe journal's content spans the biological, physical, and social sciences and is global in scope. Nearly half of all accepted papers come from authors outside the United States.

Monday 25 March 2019

Latest New Online Library Resources via IReL

Library Services recently announced a significant expansion to our online resources collection for 2019 through the IReL consortium. The almost 50 new resources consist of e-journal packages, databases, and single journal titles.
IReL (the Irish Research e-Library https://irelibrary.ie/) is a nationally funded online research library providing access to leading Science Technology and Medicine (STM) and Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) resources.

TU Dublin - City Campus access to these resources for 2019 is being funded by the Directorate of Research, Enterprise & Innovation Services and HEA.

These new resources will be highlighted via the Library website and social media channels as they go live over the coming weeks.

Of these, the following databases/journal collections are now available both on and off-campus via the Databases A-Z (http://www.dit.ie/library/databases/):

American Association for Microbiology

The American Society for Microbiology is the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world. Membership has grown from 59 scientists in 1899 to more than 43,000 members today, with more than one third located outside the United States. The members represent 26 disciplines of microbiological specialization plus a division for microbiology educators. There are 15 titles in the package.

British Medical Journal Collection

The British Medical Association publishes a wide range of medical journals (including the BMJ) covering a broad selection of medical areas. There are almost 30 titles in the package.

Cambridge Journals Online

Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) is the e-publishing service for over 380 journals published by Cambridge University Press in the areas of computer science, genetics, humanities, law, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, politics, psychology, science, technology.

JSTOR

JSTOR provides a comprehensive digital archive of important scholarly journals. Institutions gain access to the archive and support its preservation by participating in collections. JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections that include complete runs of journals as well as select monographs, transactions, and conference proceedings. IReL currently has access to the following two collections: JSTOR Arts and Sciences I to VII, and JSTOR Life Sciences Collection. Subject coverage includes: architecture, arts, business, economics, film, history of art, life sciences, science, social science.

New England Journal of Medicine

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

ASME Digital Collections

Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is the premier professional membership organization for more than 127,000 mechanical engineers and associated members worldwide. ASME also conducts one of the world’s largest technical publishing operations in the world, offering thousands of titles including some of the profession’s most prestigious journals, conference proceedings, and ASME Press books. The ASME Digital Collection package includes almost 30 full‐text journal titles.

GeoRef

The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive AGI database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 80,000 references a year. The database contains over 3.4 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

GeoScienceWorld

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the earth sciences, which is built on a core database of peer‐reviewed journals and is integrated with the GeoRef abstract and index service. The organization gives global researchers a single point of access to 45 full‐text scholarly journals plus specialized searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted elsewhere on the Web.

Women Writers Project

The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long‐term research project devoted to early modern women’s writing and electronic text encoding. They support research on women’s writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship. WRO is a full collection of Women Writers Project texts currently available online, covering a period from 1400 to 1850. This collection includes the texts, all of which can be browsed, searched, and analysed using tools which provide access to the full SGML encoding.

World Higher Education Database


Global reference for higher eduction systems, degrees and institutions.

Tuesday 19 March 2019

NEW TOURISM DATABASE - ON-CAMPUS ONLY

Our new database for Tourism and Travel is available on-campus from: consumer.globaldata.com/HomePage/Home