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 [...]

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) [...]

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.

Nov

2

Internet Archive

November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Online archive of books, moving images (films), audio and live music. “The Internet Archive, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.”

Oct

27

Irish history e-books

October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment

You want King James’s Army List but find it’s same day loan, or Bunting’s Ancient Music of Ireland and find there are borrowing restrictions. Then why not check Digital Books in Ask About Ireland? Here you will find a selection of books on Irish  history and culture which can be read in PDF or flick book format.  The website [...]

Aug

6

Linen Hall Library digitisation project

August 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The Linen Hall Library launched a project to digitise books and other printed matter in June 2011. Using state-of-the-art bibliocache technology the Library is now at the forefront in making accessible, rare and unusual items not normally available to the wider public. The items selected include Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns (Belfast [...]

Jul

5

New online collection tells story of British women’s struggle for the vote

July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment

A unique collection relating to British women’s fight for the vote 100 years ago has been revealed online through the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS). The digitised material represents a selection of the vast collections housed at the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University, and includes posters, photographs, postcards, badges, and other memorabilia relating to [...]

Apr

21

Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive

April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The IVRLA is a digital Humanities and Social Sciences repository, which draws on the extensive resources of archival and rare material held in University College Dublin, and allows researchers to access this material in a digitised format, from a single virtual location. The material is arranged in curated collections which can be browsed or searched. [...]

Oct

20

American Studies specialist collections

October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The Jordanstown Learning Resource Centre holds a number of important microfilm collections of particular interest to students in American Studies.  They  include Radical Periodicals in the United States 1890-1960 , American Studies Collection of Reprints of Periodicals , American Studies Sets and Series Collection and more.   Contact Joanne in the Jordanstown LRC to find out more about how to [...]

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