Mar

15

Poetry Archive

March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment

“The Poetry Archive is a treasure-trove of English-language poets reading their own work. Some are historic recordings, some have been made especially for the Archive – which means its range is the widest possible: from Tennyson at the end of the 19th century, to poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Langston Hughes in the middle of the 20th century, to contemporary poets including Seamus Heaney, Ruth Padel and Kathleen Jamie… You can browse poems by theme and by form…Alongside the recordings you will find a wealth of background material on the poets, which will help you understand the context for their work. There are filmed interviews with some of them, so you can see and hear them giving the inside story on their writing lives”. The Archive’s president is Seamus Heaney and one of its directors is Andrew Motion, a former Poet Laureate. There is a video Welcome Introduction to the Poetry Archive by Andrew Motion.

Feb

3

Newspaper Database Trial

February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment

UKpressonline is available for a short trial period via the Portal, Learning resources tab, Database List.  The trial will run until 29th February and gives access to the following

Daily Mirror 1903 – 1980
Daily Mirror Academic 1903 – current
Daily Express 1900 – current
Sunday Express 2000 – current
Daily Star 2000 – current
Daily Star Sunday 2002 – current
Church Times 1863 – 1889
2000 – current
The Watchman 1835 – 1884
World War Two* 1933 – 1945

*Comprised of wartime pages from the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Action!, Blackshirt, Yorkshire Post and Daily Worker

Please post your feedback on this blog, or email fj.reynolds@ulster.ac.uk with comments

Jan

16

JSTOR Early Journal Content

January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment

JSTOR Early Journal Content. The content of over 200 journals from  the late 19th and early 20th Centuries has been added to JSTOR. This includes journal articles published in the United States before 1923 and articles published in other countries before 1870.

The new content has been incorporated into our JSTOR provision so the new journal runs can be found by logging on to JSTOR Ireland or JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collection III on the Portal (Learning Resources tab).

Jan

12

What is Google missing?

January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Watch this video from TED.com about the customisation of Google (and other) search results and the effect filtering may have on the information you gather

Dec

1

JISC Collections

December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Recently the Library has taken out a subscription to the newly released JISC eCollections, a high quality range of book, journal and multimedia archives. The collection comprises:

JISC Historic Books: full text of over 350,000 books published from 1475-1900. The collection is made up of Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Nineteenth Century Books from the British Library.

JISC MediaHub: over 725,000 multimedia items including more than 3,600 hours of film and over 50,000 images from NewsFilm Online, Film & Sound Online and the new Digital Images for Education archive.

JISC Journal Archives: more than 3.7 million journal articles from Oxford University Press, BRILL, Proquest, Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, Institute of Civil Engineers. Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis will be added soon.

The three databases may be accessed from the Portal’s Learning Resources tab.

Nov

29

Survey of library use

November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Do you use other academic libraries? Would you like to? Can you get what you need?

Help us to develop services for you by completing the online survey  (it should take 5-6 minutes).

*WIN VOUCHERS* Prize Draw for SIX winners of £30 Amazon vouchers – optionally provide your email address at the end of the survey to be entered in to the random draw.

Nov

29

British Library newspapers digitised

November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The British Library and online publisher brightsolid today launch a website that will transform the way that people use historical newspapers to find out about the past. The British Newspaper Archive website will offer access to up to 4 million fully searchable pages, featuring more than 200 newspaper titles from every part of the UK and Ireland. The newspapers – which mainly date from the 19th century, but which include runs dating back to the first half of the 18th century – cover every aspect of local, regional and national news.
Included is the Belfast Newsletter 1828-1900.
All searching is free but it costs to view images in the viewer.

Nov

11

Jane Austen event

November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment

 The Riverside Theatre will be hosting AUSTEN’S WOMEN, next Tuesday evening (15th November) at 8pm.
Thirteen of Jane Austen’s most celebrated female characters are brought to life by actress Rebecca Vaughan, in this bold revisiting of the most exciting moments from Austen’s ‘two inches of ivory’. In scenes of high comedy and moments of profound pathos, Lizzy Bennet, Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood and many more, fall in love, alienate their friends and commit notorious improprieties. Using only Austen’s words, Rebecca Vaughan offers a brilliant and illuminating distillation of 19th century feminism.

Dr Katherine Byrne, will deliver the pre-show talk before this performance.  This pre-show talk will be of interest to anyone with a passion for the novels of Jane Austen, but in particular to those who may be studying the author at both undergraduate or school-level.

Nov

10

Hahti Trust digital library

November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of research libraries (in the US) in digital form, preserving them securely to be accessed and used today, and in future generations.  Holdings include out of copyright materials covering all subject areas.

Nov

8

Penn University online resources

November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Links to online resources at Penn University.  This lists some of the major sources and indexes of free online texts, in all languages, both general and specialized.