1 |1 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Library databases (an introduction) November 2015

2 |2 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin What we mean by “Databases” –Why you need them? –Where you find them? A bit about general searching of databases How to find E-Books? How you move from a reference to the full text. *Look for these icons: What you need to do to view online resources off campus? What TARA and the Research Support System are? In this session

3 |3 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin DATABASES –Large amounts of data, indexed, organised and searchable –Differing technical capabilities: content can usually be: saved, bookmarked, downloaded, printed and ed –Many different providers –Many are free –TCD Library purchases access to over 350 specialised databases What are Databases?

4 |4 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Databases can be collections or websites determined by: publishing format –E-journals, E-books, theses, Conference proceedings, data sets, film or a combination of all formats. type of content: –Full text, Abstracting and indexing services, Bibliographic lists, or a combination of all. subject: –Science, Nursing, Business, Language, History, General. What else?

5 |5 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin YOU NEED DATABASES TO FIND JOURNAL ARTICLES FIND JOURNAL ARTICLES

6 |6 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin The College website

7 |7 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin The Library website

8 |8 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Start at the Library home page, 1.Under the main Search Box, find Databases & E-Books 2.Under Subject Guides go to Support and Training 3.Go directly to the Stella Search box on the Library Home page, or, under the tab Search Collections, choose ‘Stella Search’ Now type in the database name if you know it Follow the links to the catalogue record which, in turn, links to the resource. Search for a database

9 |9 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin The Library website

10 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Search for a database

11 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Search for a database

12 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Work flow: Trial > New Resource > Catalogue record > A-Z by Name

13 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Start at the Library home page, 1.Under the main Search Box, find Databases & E-Books 2.Under Subject Guides go to Support and Training 3.Go directly to the Stella Search box on the Library Home page, or, under the tab Search Collections, choose ‘Stella Search’ Now type in the database name if you know it Follow the links to the catalogue record which, in turn, links to the resource. Search for a database

14 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin

15 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Start at the Library home page, 1.Under the main Search Box, find Databases & E-Books 2.Under Subject Guides go to Support and Training 3.Go directly to the Stella Search box on the Library Home page, or, under the tab Search Collections, choose ‘Stella Search’ Now type in the database name if you know it Follow the links to the catalogue record which, in turn, links to the resource. Search for a database

16 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin The Library website

17 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin

18 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Search for a database

19 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Search for a database

20 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Search for a database

21 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Dbase 1b Dbase 1a Database 2 Platform 1 (aggregator platform, 25 databases) Database 1 Platform 2 (Publisher platform) Platform 3 (16 databases) Dbase 1c Dbase 2a Database Platform changes

22 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Select databases appropriate to your topic Use keywords and controlled vocabulary (thesaurus) Use Boolean searching (AND, OR & NOT) Identify further suitable keywords / vocabulary Recheck the selected database(s) and other resources Use several different approaches to gather material Planning & conducting a search

23 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Boolean operators (AND OR NOT) in searches AND used in a search between two terms, will retrieve articles that mention both terms, somewhere in the article chicken AND egg = a set of results OR used between the two terms will retrieve articles that mention either term chicken OR egg = a larger set of results NOT excludes terms chicken NOT egg = will exclude all results from AND search Boolean operators

24 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Use the HELP facility to familiarise yourself with a particular resource:HELP What symbols are used, e.g. to truncate words: *; as wildcards: Child* ; behavio?r How to search for a phrase? Use quotation marks (“ “) Boolean operators Impicit AND? Can you use more of them? (NEAR, SAME, etc.) What limits can be applied, e.g. date, language, scholarly articles? Use the Advanced search to search a large collection effectively. Be aware of Copyright constraintsCopyright Effective searching

25 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin E-books

26 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin E-Books NOTE: the e-version of an important book is often not the latest edition As with other databases, ebooks can be collected in packages Subject : specialized or general Historical period Reference Publisher Provider What are E-books? digitized versions of printed books or digital works which adopt a book-like format on screen digitized versions of printed books or digital works which adopt a book-like format on screen Publisher/Provider platforms offer single titles or title bundles

27 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin E-Book collections are listed with our databases under Databases and E-books on the Library’s home page. There are records in our catalogue for most E-Book single titles, within those collections. A small percentage of E-Books in our collections can only be found by searching the provider or publisher’s database or platform. E-books

28 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Royal Society of Chemistry Early English Books Online (EEBO) Safari Books Online Past Masters ACLS Humanities E-Book Making of Modern Law Oxford Reference Online MyiLibrary Women Writers Online Medieval and Early Modern Sources (MEMSO) LION (LIterature Online) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Some TCD Library E-Book collections STAT!Ref 123Library E-books

29 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin E-books

30 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin You’ve done a search, found a reference … however, there’s no full text link button: Find and click the “link resolver” button (this may show the text: “Check TCD e-journals”) This links to a piece of software (LinkSource) which checks if the Library has the article you want, either in another database or in hard copy and points you at it. It will point you at your Subject Librarian too. Have reference, where’s the text?

31 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Opens up article in a different database to the one you searched Publisher’s site

32 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Off Campus Access

33 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Off campus you need: An Internet connection College Username College Network Password Off Campus Access

34 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Off campus, go to the Catalogue record TCD Library site (Stella Search) to access licensed online resources. Within the Catalogue record, click on TCD-affiliated users may click here for access. If you do NOT go through the Library catalogue, you may NOT be recognised as being a member of TCD or ‘TCD-affiliated’ and may be denied access to the database or e-journal article. Off Campus Access

35 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin After you click TCD-affiliated users may click here for access, the system requests your Username and Password. Off Campus Access

36 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Having problems with online resources, using your own device, on or off campus? Check that you are up to date with Your browser (Firefox, IExplorer) Java Microsoft Silverlight Adobe Flash ALL FREE Off Campus Access

37 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin TARA & RSS TARA: Trinity’s Institutional Repository (a FREE database) holds the research outputs of Trinity College Dublin RSS: Trinity’s Research Support System allows academics to manage their research outputs & create CVs RSS links seamlessly to TARA and the College People Finder.TARACollege People Finder TARATARA holds the full text of Trinity researchers’ publications where possible. TARATARA is listed on the Library’s catalogue. TARATARA content is searchable from the public Web, i.e. you can Google it.

38 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin How to use TARA & RSS Locate a name in the People Finder: Click into the individual’s web page. See a list of research interests and publications. Link from there to the full text in TARA, if available.TARA Note: Googling a lecturer’s name and research paper title or subject will find the full text, if it is in TARA. TARA is FREE for everyone to use, you do not have to be affiliated to TCD.

39 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Databases Large amounts of organised, searchable data E-Journals, E-Books, collections of data, images, film, etc. Linking references to full text: Off campus Internet connection, a TCD username and password Access via the Library’s catalogue record Find Library online resources Databases & E-Books page Stella search box Subject Librarians’ Subject Guides pages TARA is Trinity’s Institutional Repository Summing Up

40 | TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin, Electronic Resources Librarian, Library of Trinity College, University of Dublin Queries about electronic resources in TCD Library?electronic resources For SUBJECT queries, contact your Subject Librarian For TECHNICAL queries, contact For general queries, contact the Duty Librarian in person in the Berkeley or Hamilton Libraries or

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