Media Studies

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.

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

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.

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.

HCPP includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. 

The database has searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing.

Coverage: 18th century (1688-1834), 19th century (1801-1900), 20th century (1901-2003/04 session), 21st century module 1 (2004/05 ? 2009/10 sessions) , 21st century module 2 (2010/12 session).  Hansard (1803-2005) is a recent addition.

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.

A comprehensive and unique resource tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,000 publishers in over 60 countries.

Contains over 34,000 full-text sources including 12,000 news sources (eg. the Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, Business & Finance, Financial Times;) and a huge range of company, financial and industry sources.

Links to newspapers the library subscribes to and to free sites including international, and national and regional Irish newspapers.

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.

Project MUSE provides full-text access to over 300 high quality scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Access 1999 onwards.

Indexes over 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. Coverage is from 1956 to present.

Journals service which accesses 218 full-text titles and table of contents for 15,000 titles. Click on 'login for IP authentication'. Direct links to individual titles through Electronic Journals database.

UK/EIRE Reference Centre™ combines British & Irish sources (including: magazines, newspapers, and reference books) with international sources to create the most complete collection of full-text research publications for UK/Irish secondary education.
Magazine coverage includes full text of publications such as New Statesman, PC Magazine, National Geographic, and many more. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The Times (London), The Sun, The Daily Mail, etc. Reference book full-text coverage includes: The Columbia Encyclopedia, and many others. In addition, this database provides hundreds of thousands of photos, maps and flags.