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The Library has purchased, or is subscribing to, over 350 databases. They contain E-Journals, E-Books (350,000 E-Books) and other types of data such as video and audio. For queries on accessing these databases, contact the Electronic Resources Librarian or your Subject Librarian.

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  • Off campus access is available to TCD-registered users. If you are having difficulties connecting off campus, please check you have followed the correct steps. You can find these at 'Connecting to Resources Off Campus' on our Off Campus Access page.
  • Electronic Legal Deposit (UK) or eLD (UK), (non-subscription) material is NOT available off-campus. eLD (UK) is available on library-owned PCs, in Library reading rooms, ONLY. The link text in the catalogue record is: "Available on Library reading room PCs only. Click here for access."
  • ATHENS. The Library does not use the Athens system to provide access to e-journals and databases.

EndNote

There are EndNote support pages on the Library website.

Blackboard (for TCD Staff)

Linking to Electronic Resources from Blackboard. Please do not insert PDFs of articles directly into Blackboard as this may be a breach of copyright/licence agreements.

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Databases "On Trial" are normally only available on campus.

If you experience any access issues or have any queries on current, trial or new databases, please contact the Electronic Resources Librarian directly.

  • Check out New Resources for recently purchased databases.
  • Please note, TCD Library may not be able to commit to a subscription at the end of a resource trial period, even if usage statistics are high, due to current financial restrictions.

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    • beck-online: Die Datenbank. Trial period: 2 months: 11 January 2017 - 10 March 2017.

      beck-online premium, a German-language legal database, includes about 500 (full text) handbooks, lexica and commentaries, over 90 (full text) professional law journals and an abundance of statutes and court decisions.

      beck-online is not available off campus.

      Subject: Law

    • British Periodicals: Collections III & IV (ProQuest ). Trial period: 90 days, 25 October 2016 - 24 January 2017.

      *THIS TRIAL IS NOW OVER.

      This ProQuest database provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.

      British Periodicals Collection III focuses on leading publications from the first half of the twentieth century. The titles are from the stable of illustrated periodicals known as the "Great Eight" in British periodical publishing history. They cover a mix of news/politics, miscellany, art, photography, literature and comedy/satire.

      British Periodicals Collection IV offers a mix of major popular titles from the twentieth century, aimed at reflecting the age's attitudes interests and events across culture, politics and society. Key themes covered in these publications include socialism and the labour movement, international affairs/conflict, leisure/rural life, the arts, travel/empire and childhood/youth.

      TCD has previously purchased Collections I and II. They can be searched along with Collections III and IV during the period of this trial, both on and off campus. They can be found using the usual British Periodicals database record in the Library catalogue.

      Subject: History

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    • China: trade, politics and culture 1793-1980 (Adam Matthew) Trial period: 01/02/2017 - 30/04/2017.

      *Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.

      This resource is NOT available off campus during the trial period.

      China: trade, politics and culture 1793-1980 contains manuscripts encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People's Republic. There are 400 colour paintings, maps and drawings by English and Chinese artists and there are also photographs, sketches and ephemeral items depicting Chinese people, places, customs and events. The resource contains a wide variety of primary source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. It provides multiple perspectives - from politicians, diplomats, missionaries, to business people and tourists.

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    • Eighteenth Century Drama (Adam Matthew) Trial period: 11/10/2016 - 10/01/2017.

      *THIS TRIAL IS NOW OVER.

      *Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.

      An archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824, and hundreds of documents that provide social context for the plays, featuring:

      • John Larpent collection of plays from the Huntington Library
      • Supplementary documents, including Anna Larpent’s diaries
      • The London Stage, 1660-1800
      • A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

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    • Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: rock and roll, counterculture, peace and protest. (Adam Matthew) Trial period: 11/10/2016 - 10/01/2017.

      *THIS TRIAL IS NOW OVER.

      Resource purchased. See New Resources for more details.

      *Please note that PDF download options were not available during trials.

      Popular Culture explores the period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material, as well as photographs, ephemera, memorabilia and video footage from this period in our history.

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    • Routledge Performance Archive Trial period: 20 February 2017 - 19 May 2017.

      The Routledge Performance Archive is a developing resource providing access to a range of streamed audio-visual material, from past and present practitioners of performance, accompanied by critical commentary. The content is updated and expanded every three months.

    • There are interviews on theatre history and contemporary practice, master classes with actor trainers, and both full-length and excerpts from contemporary productions and documentaries. The video material spans more than fifty years of documented work.

      The editorial areas are: European Theatre and Performance; South African Theatre and Performance; African American and African Diaspora; Theatre/Design; Shakespeare, Race, and Performance; Political Performance; Devised Performance; Theatre Masks; and Musical Theatre.

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    • StareDecisis: law reports at your fingertips Trial period: 24 October 2016- 20 November 2016 (Four weeks).

      *THIS TRIAL IS NOW OVER.

      Resource purchased. See New Resources for more details.

      STARE DECISIS: The legal principle by which courts are obliged to respect the precedents established by prior decisions. [StareDecisis site]

      Since 2011, Stare Decisis Hibernia includes updates on all recently published judgments of the Irish superior courts (Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court and previously the Court of Criminal Appeal).

      Updates normally appear within 5 days of being posted on the Courts Services web site.

      The updates normally include: i) a summary of the court's decision; ii) a link to the text on the Courts Services web site (where available); iii) key terms and phrases used; d) the main authorities cited.

      This short (80 second) video will tell you more about the service.

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    StareDecisis: law reports at your fingertips

    Orbis Europe

    Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: rock and roll, counterculture, peace and protest

    ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1909-1975)

    ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index (1851-1993)

    Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture and Law

    Goodman Manuscripts

    SciVal

    [Drama Online] NHB Modern Plays (Nick Hern Books)

    [Drama Online] Rodenburg (Shakespeare in the present) (Shakespeare and Early Modern Video Collection)

    [Drama Online] Hamlet the Film (Genesius Pictures)

    [Drama Online] Stage on Screen (Shakespeare and Early Modern Video Collection)

    [Drama Online] Globe on Screen [Shakespeare's Globe on Screen Film Collection]

    [Drama Online] L.A. Theatre Works

    Drama Online: additional collections

    IFI player

    PsycTESTS

    Autrement Mêmes Collection (L'Harmathèque.com: Autrement Même Collection)

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    • Drama Online : Nick Hern Books Collection; L.A. Theatre Works; [Shakespeare's] Globe on Screen; Video 3-pack: Stage on Screen; Hamlet the film; Shakespeare in the present. [October 2016]

      Links to the six individual resources below:

    • NHB Modern Plays (Nick Hern Books)(400 play scripts)

      A collection of almost 400 titles (plays, screenplays and theatre books) from specialist performing arts publisher, Nick Hern. The collection features works from Conor McPherson, Rona Munro, Enda Walsh and Nicholas Wright.

    • L.A. Theatre Works (350+ Streamed Audio plays)

      L.A. Theatre Works (LATW) is an American audio (radio) theatre company. LATW records stage productions, producing high quality audio versions for listeners. This collection has over 350 audio recordings of drama from literary classics such as Twelve Angry Men, modern works from the oeuvre of American playwrights: Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Eugene O'Neill, Pulitzer Prize-winning titles such as Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers and contemporary works such as Lucy Prebble's Enron. The collection also includes original LATW docudramas such as Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers.

    • Shakespeare's Globe on Screen Film Collection (Globe on Screen) (21 Video plays)

      Founded by the American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, London's Shakespeare's Globe is dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the theatre for which he wrote. Shakespeare's Globe on Screen Film Collection is a collection of video recordings of 21 of the Shakespeare’s Globe's stage productions. These 21 films feature critically acclaimed performances from leading actors including Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry. See the full title list of filmed performances. The collection will be updated with future productions.

    • Stage on Screen (Shakespeare and Early Modern Video Collection: SOS) (Four video plays)

      Filmed theatre productions, professionally staged classic plays from London's Greenwich Theatre. Stage on Screen currently contains these dramas: The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Volpone by Ben Jonson. Each film is accompanied by filmed interviews with cast and crew, around 15 hours of content in total. In addition there are costume designs, productions stills, and study guides, as well as background on the play and production.

    • Hamlet the Film, starring Maxine Peake as Hamlet (Genesius Pictures) (1 video play)

      Hamlet by William Shakespeare, adapted by Michael Grandage (Genesius Pictures). Maxine Peake's Hamlet is a female character who takes on a male mantle.

    • Rodenburg [Shakespeare in the present]: (Shakespeare and Early Modern Video Collection) (Video, 6hrs: an acting masterclass with Patsy Rodenburg).

      Patsy Rodenburg, OBE, has been the Head of Voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London for 26 years and until recently at the Royal National Theatre. She trained in Voice Studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama and is recognized as one of the world's leading voice teachers as well as a renowned authority on Shakespeare.

      Filmed on the stages of Michael Howard Studios, New York and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, this video master class demonstrates Patsy Rodenburg’s techniques and exercises in Movement, Speech, Body and Vocal Warm-Up. It includes one-on-one analysis of Shakespeare’s most famous monologues, working with those actors performing speeches from Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, and many more.

      Full content list for each collection. There are links here to each collection and a full list of plays that you can download.

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    • Goodman Manuscripts FREE resource, launched October 2016.

      James Goodman (1828-1896), a native of Dingle, Co. Kerry, was a canon of the Church of Ireland and Professor of Irish at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). During his lifetime he compiled an exceptional Irish traditional music and song manuscript collection which was deposited in TCD Library following his death.

      In collaboration with TCD, the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) has digitised and made freely available online the six manuscript volumes. They contain over 2,000 melodies and upwards of 80 songs or poems compiled by James Goodman from oral, manuscript and printed sources at his disposal in mid-19th century southern Ireland.

      This digital project enhances the published scholarly editions Tunes of the Munster Pipers Volume 1 and Volume 2 edited by Hugh and Lisa Shields (ITMA, 1998 & 2013)

      There is interactive score access via Port

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    • IFI player FREE resource, launched September 1916.

      The material on the IFI Player has been selected to give audiences a taste of the breadth and depth of the collections preserved by the IFI Irish Film Archive. Home movies, newsreels, travelogues, animations, feature films, public information films and documentaries have been included; both amateur and professional productions.

      Subject: Film

      Content: History

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    • Orbis Europe
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      Orbis Europe is a subset of BvD's global 'Orbis' tool. It holds information on public and private banks, insurance and industrial companies across 48 European countries. It contains over 85 million companies on the system and is updated weekly. It is replacing Amadeus, an abbreviated European database, in TCD Library's collection of subscription databases.

      999 concurrent users

      Subject: Business

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    • Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: rock and roll, counterculture, peace and protest. (Adam Matthew) [Jan 2017]

      Popular Culture explores the period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material, as well as photographs, ephemera, memorabilia and video footage from this period in our history.

    • ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1909-1975) [December 2016]
    • This newspaper provides first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1909 - 1975.

      Contents: Full Text

      Subject: History

    • ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index (1851-1993) [December 2016]
    • The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides coverage of the politics, society and events of the time and search capability using subject terms in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times. Coverage: 1851 - 2013.

      Contents: Full Text

      Subject: History

    • PsycTests [August 2016]
    • 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.

      PsycTESTS is on the EBSCOhost platform and can be cross-searched with PsycInfo and PsycArticles.

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    • SciVal [October 2016]

      Elsevier's SciVal offers access to the research performance of 7,500 research institutions and 220 countries worldwide. Scopus is the underlying data for SciVal. Information about SciVal is available from the Help menu, including: the online manual, a Quick User Guide, the SciVal Metrics Guidebook.

      For off campus access, please contact the Library for an access URL.

      See also the SciVal info site

    • Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture and Law Free database from HeinOnline; users must register. [October 2016]

      The database is free but users must register at the URL provided. Due to a high level of interest in this database, it may take 24-48 business hours for registration to be completed.

      Slavery in America and the World, brings together every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, all federal statutes related to slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. The database also contains hundreds of books and pamphlets written about slavery.

      Contents: Full Text

      Subject: History

      Subject: Law

    • StareDecisis: law reports at your fingertips [Feb. 2017]

      StareDecisis provides up-to-date law reports for all of the superior courts in the Republic of Ireland.

      In StareDecisis (also known as, Stare Decisis Hibernia), you can search cases by Keyword, Subject Matter, Court, or Judge, separately or in any combination. StareDecisis contains easy to read judgment summaries and covers all judgments from the Supreme Court, High Court, and Court of Appeal since Jan 2011. All judgment summaries are written by practising barristers specialising in covering specific areas of subject matter ensuring consistent reporting. All judgments are reported within 7 days.

      Contents: Full Text

      Subject: Law

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