Irish Newspaper Archive Trial ending soon TAGS: Irish Newspaper Archives | Newspapers Trial access to Irish Newspaper Archive ends soon on Monday 31st August. Irish Newspaper Archives contains electronic versions of Irish newspapers from the 1700’s to current day.  See the title …Continue reading →

Archives Unbound – Extra Collections Purchased TAGS: Archives Unbound | database | Gale Cengage | history | La Guerra Civil Espanola | Meyer Lansky | Santo Trafficante | The Mafia in Florida and Cuba | The Spanish Civil War Collection We have purchased two additional Archives Unbound modules following a trial earlier this year.   The Mafia in Florida and Cuba: FBI Surveillance of Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante, Jr …Continue reading →

A-Z lists unavailable TAGS: AZ lists | databases | e-books There is currently an outage on the Library website – updates will be posted on the ISHelpline twitter account –  https://twitter.com/isalerts Please use DiscoverEd to access e-resources during the downtime

Stalin Digital Archive – new database TAGS: database | EastView | history | Stalin Digital Archive Following a successful trial, we have now purchased the Stalin Digital Archive database from EastView. The Stalin Digital Archive contains primary and secondary source material related to Joseph Stalin’s personal …Continue reading →

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England – new database TAGS: database | history | Parliament Rolls of Medieval England Following a successful trial earlier this year, we have now purchased the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England database. The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of …Continue reading →

Cambridge Books Online – More E-Books Added TAGS: American History | American Literature | anthropology | Archaeology | art | astronomy | British History | Chemistry | Classical Studies | Computer Science | Drama and Theater | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Economics | Engineering | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | Film media mass communication | General Science | Geography | History Cross Discipline | History Other Regions | Humanities | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | Management | mathematics | Medicine | music | Philosophy | Physics | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Sociology | Statistics and Probability For this academic year we have expanded our holdings to include coursebooks – we have now loaded 8000+ e-books across most subject disciplines to DiscoverEd.  A list of the additions …Continue reading →

Web of Science update on Sunday 26th July TAGS: ORCID | Web of Science Thomson Reuters advise “This release, which will be live on July 26th, primarily focused on integrating ORCID data into our platform.  We have always supported ORCID’s when they have been …Continue reading →

New Dawsonera online reader launched TAGS: Dawsonera | ebooks | online reader Dawsonera have now launched their new online reader.  This includes a number of enhancements to improve the user experience of reading e-books on their platform. The main enhancement we have …Continue reading →

Trial access to History of Science and Medicine Library E-Books TAGS: Brill | e-books | History of Science and Medicine Library | trial We have trial access to the History of Science and Medicine Library e-book collection from Brill until 9th July. The History of Science and Medicine Library is a peer-reviewed book …Continue reading →

ScienceDirect website down TAGS: downtime | ebooks | ejournals | ScienceDirect The ScienceDirect website is currently unavailable due to an outage.  Elsevier are aware of the issue and are urgently working to restore access to their website. ACCESS RESTORED