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Library Databases

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Indexes over 1,140 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Coverage is from 1975 to date.

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ARTstor

A digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

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Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics

Offers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers.

Dictionary of Irish Biography Online

The Dictionary of Irish Biography, a collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy, is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland.

Dissertations & Theses Abstracts

The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, with more than 2.3 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses included, covering graduate research from 1861 to the present.

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Early English Books Online (EEBO)

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

The largest and most comprehensive online historical archive of its kind. It offers full text searching and many levels of metadata which will enable reseachers to study this century in fresh new ways.

Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900

This resource, created by An Foras Feasa, provides an online searchable version of A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650 - 1900, produced in print form by Rolf and Magda Loeber, with Anne Mullin Burnham, and published by Four Courts Press in 2006. The purpose of this version is to enhance the searchability, accessibility and research potential of this unique resource.

Index to Theses

Provides abstracts of postgraduate theses accepted by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Irish theses now have their own collection and this collection can be searched separately by clicking on Irish Theses from the Index to Theses homepage.

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Irish Newspaper Archive

Consists of digitised Irish news publications from 1763 onwards. It currently includes: the Freeman's Journal, Irish Independent, Sunday Independent, Irish Farmers Journal and some regional newspapers. Some of these titles are incomplete but further digitisation of these titles and the addition of new titles is ongoing.

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period

Includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. Compiled and edited by Stephen Behrendt of the University of Nebraska, the database also offers numerous biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project

JSTOR

Journal Storage Database - full text archival database of covering 900 scholarly journals in the areas of arts & humanities, social sciences and science.

Oxford Dictionaries Pro

With up-to-date online dictionaries, thesauruses, and language reference content based on the largest language research programme in the world, Oxford Dictionaries Pro is an extensive, integrated, smart-linked English language resource. It offers quick search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with expert guidance on style and usage, grammar, and spelling; plus specialist guides for legal and technical writing.

Oxford English Dictionary

This corresponds to the 20-volume 2nd edition of the OED. It covers words from across the English-speaking world and also offers etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the international phonetic alphabet.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection

This is a database of language and subject reference works from Oxford University Press available as a single cross-searchable resource. It includes maps, illustrations and various subject timelines. The Library subscribes to the ‘Premium’ collection. A lock icon indicates that an item is not available. Oxford Reference is updated regularly.

SCOPUS

The Library and the Research Office jointly purchased SCOPUS. This is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.

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WorldCat

Catalogue of books, web resources and other materials worldwide.

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Websites of Interest

BNB British National Bibliography	The British National Bibliography (BNB) lists the books and new journal titles published or distributed in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1950.
BUBL - Literature and Language	Gateway to quality resources evaluated by a team of experts
English Literature on the Web	Comprehensive collection of sites, arranged chronologically
Humbul Humanities Hub - English	Developing online catalogue with primary, secondary and bibliographic sources
Oxford Text Archive	Collects, catalogues and preserves electronic texts including English literary texts
Voice of the Shuttle - English Literature	Many general and specific sites, arranged by period and by genre. Other literatures in English included

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