1. Library databases
(an introduction)
Michaelmas Term 2014

2. In this session 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?
Emphasise: Access on and off campus (need an internet connection)
Off campus, you MUST go through the TCD Library catalogue, so that your College username and network login password are authenticated and you are recognised as being a ‘TCD-affiliated’ user.
*Link resolver – this appears in the form of an icon (within databases, a small blue square with TCD written in black text, or in Stella Search, a teal square with TCD in white text), helps move between databases – it appears on bibliographic database search results and connects to full text, if available, or to details of Library’s paper (i.e. the physical book or journal) copy in the TCD catalogue.
NOTE: THIS PRESENTATION DOES NOT GO INTO THE DETAILS OF HOW TO SEARCH ANY PARTICULAR DATABASE> PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SUBJECT LIBRARIAN FOR SUBJECT QUERIES AND THE ENDNOTE TEAM FOR BIBILIOGRAPHIC MANAGEMENT QUERIES. If you have other queries, please contact the Duty Librarian, in the BLU or the Hamilton.

3. DATABASES Large amounts of data, indexed, organised and searchable
What are Databases?
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
*this presentation covers purchased and subscription databases mainly ( – but also mentions TARA and RSS.)
TCD pays to access 180+ specialist databases – many of these containing sub databases
TCD with the other Universities via a consortium called IReL pay for access to a further 100 high level databases, also consisting of many component databases.

4. Databases can be collections or websites determined by:
What else?
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.
Explain not all dbs are full text, explain Abstracting and indexing services e.g. Applied social science index and abstracts (ASSIA) PQ
: What else?
[DATABASES]
Screen text:
Can be collections or websites determined by:
publishing formats: E-Journal collections, E-book collections, data sets, film or a combination of all formats
type of content: Abstracting and indexing services, Bibliographic lists, Full text material or a combination of all
Subject, e.g. Science, Nursing, Business, Language, History, General

5. YOU NEED DATABASES TO FIND JOURNAL ARTICLES
Use subscription databases and scholarly or peer reviewed sources to find material suitable for your academic work.
** It is possible to search the catalogue directly for articles, and you may find them.
BUT DON’t continue your database search here. Come back to Database record in catalogue and start again.
Useful YouTube clips, if you want to use them:
What's a library database? | RMIT University 1.56 mns
What Are Databases and Why You Need Them : 2.34mns

6. The College website

7. The Library website

8. Start at the Library home page, http://www.tcd.ie/library/
Search for a database
Start at the Library home page,
Under Search Collections go to Databases & E-Books
Under Support & Training go to Subject Guides
3. Go directly to the Stella Search box, either under the TCD crest or the first option under Search Collections, and type in the database name if you know it
Follow the links to the catalogue record which, in turn, links to the resource.

9. The Library website Search Collections
Find the databases from the Library’s home page by
using a Stella search
looking at the list of Databases and E-Books

10. Search for a database
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11. Search for a database

12. Work flow: Trial > New Resource > Catalogue record > A-Z by Name

13. Start at the Library home page, http://www.tcd.ie/library/
Search for a database
Start at the Library home page,
Under Search Collections go to Databases & E-Books
Under Support & Training go to Subject Guides
Go directly to the Stella Search box, either under the TCD crest or the first option under Search Collections, and type in the database name if you know it
Follow the links to the catalogue record which, in turn, links to the resource.

14. Find the databases from the Library’s home page
find your Subject Librarian’s page:
go to Support and Training
and look at the Subject Guides.
These are web pages set up by Subject Librarians.
They will guide you towards the most useful resources in your field of study.

15. Start at the Library home page, http://www.tcd.ie/library/
Search for a database
Start at the Library home page,
Under Search Collections go to Databases & E-Books
Under Support & Training go to Subject Guides
If you know the database name:
Go directly to the Stella Search box, either under the TCD crest or the first option under Search Collections, and type in the database name.
Follow the links to the catalogue record which, in turn, links to the resource.

16. The Library website Find the databases from the Library’s home page by
using a Stella search
looking at the list of Databases and E-Books
Ejournal titles:
If you know the title of the Electronic Journal, you can also search by that title. All electronic journal titles have individual records in the catalogue. Y
ou can search Stella, or the tab beside that, Journal Titles, or E-journals only (below the Databases and E-Books link. This last will always be the most complete list of ejournals available. – Demonstrate live if you wish.

17. Search for a database

18. Search for a database

19. Search for a database
Use the facets to find the ‘database’ format

20. Database Platform changes
Platform 3 (16 databases)
Dbase 1a
Dbase 1b
Dbase 1c
Dbase 2a
Database 1
Database 2
Hidden slide
Diagram showing Database Platform changes
Database movement between platforms
Sub-databases can be removed from ‘parent’ Databases and be provided elsewhere.
Platforms can supply access to multiple publishers.
Publishers may remove content from one database or platform and transfer it to another.
Platforms experience upgrades every few years, component databases may be amalgamated or not.
Platform 2 (Publisher platform)
Platform 1 (aggregator platform, 25 databases)

21. Select databases appropriate to your topic
Planning & conducting a search
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

22. 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
NOT excludes terms and therefore should exclude all the results found in an AND search.
Try it yourself.
Exercise – find database, JSTOR
Chicken and Egg 17,958
Chicken or Egg 223,198
Chicken not Egg 17,278
Chicken 79,457
Egg 161,699
Last two figures don’t add up to equal Chicken OR Egg,– to do with some OR articles have both terms in same article - so don’t get counted twice
Try it with Web of Sci:
Chicken and Egg 82475
Chicken or Egg 1,484,347
Chicken not Egg 517,570

23. What symbols are used, e.g. to truncate words: *; as wildcards:
Effective searching
Use the HELP facility to familiarise yourself with a particular resource:
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 constraints

24. E-books

25. E-Books What are E-books? digitized versions of printed books or
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
digitized versions of printed books or
digital works which adopt a book-like format on screen
E-book editions of a textbook are generally released later than the print version by the publisher. Therefore the most recent edition of a book may only be available in print.
This is important to know for people studying areas where there are frequent updates of core texts. Check dates in catalogue carefully
As with databases, e-books can be collections dealing with a particular subject, e.g. Chemistry or Nursing, perhaps from a particular publisher, or can cover a period of time – as in the EEBO and ECCO collections – the Early and Eighteenth Century collections of books, over 300,000 of them. They can be reference works or can be gathered together according to publisher, e.g. Royal Society of Chemistry or aggregator, e.g. MyiLibrary.
E-books collections are listed with our databases and have a record in the cataogue.
Most e-book single titles can be found by searching the catalogue.
Many packages are growing collections with new titles being constantly added. These can be found on the platform immediately but it may take some time for a record to be created for them in TCD catalogue.
Publisher/Provider platforms
offer single titles or title bundles

26. E-books
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.
A small number of e-books in our collections can only be found by searching the provider or publisher’s database or platform.
Several reasons for this, the catalogue records, supplied by the publisher or by OCLC haven’t yet been made available, or haven’t been created, or haven’t yet been loaded. It is important to double check by searching a publisher or provider platform. For example, OECD iLibrary E-Books.
Note: TCD E-Books are available via desktop computers and laptops.

27. Some TCD Library E-Book collections
E-books
Some TCD Library E-Book collections
Women Writers Online
Oxford Reference Online
Safari Books Online
LION (LIterature Online)
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Past Masters
Knovel
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
There are purchased E-Books in the catalogue which are not gathered under one package, i.e. EBSCO Nursing and Midwifery PDA titles - eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
There are individual title records, c70, in the catalogue for these.
TCD purchased ebook collections:
WWO
Past Masters
EBBO
ECCO
123Library
Royal Soc of Chemistry. Last full year published: 2011
MyiLibrary
EBSCO Nursing and Midwifery PDA titles - eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
TCD subscription ebook collections
StatRef
Safari
Knovel
IReL subscriptions:
Lion
MOML
Oxford Reference Online
ACLS
123Library
Medieval and Early Modern Sources (MEMSO)
STAT!Ref
MyiLibrary
Royal Society of Chemistry
Making of Modern Law

28. E-books For Info – not for reading out:
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Engineering, Mathematics and Science Health Sciences ACLS Humanities E-Book [IReL] Knovel E-books 123 Library (Elsevier Health Sciences) Aquinas Collected Works MERCK Index British National Formulary Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project Royal Society of Chemistry British Pharmacopoeia British History Online Safari Tech Books Ebsco PDA (Nursing & Midwifery) Chicago Manual of Style Synthesis Digital Library (Collections 1, 4&5) European Pharmacopoeia Der Neue Pauly Informed choice Initiative collection Dictionary of Irish Biography Online - Annual Maintenance Medicines Complete Dictionary of Old English A-G Online Micromedex Dictionary of Old English Corpus Ovid Nursing E-books Documents on British Policy Oversea Royal Marsden Manual Drama Online STAT!Ref E-books Dublin Castle Papers ECCO annual EEBO Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopedia of Islam Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 19th-21st Centuries Ill Ragazini PLUS Lo Zingarelli International Law Reports (Justis) International Statistical Yearbook Lion [IReL] Literary Encyclopedia Making of Modern Law [IReL] MEMSO MyiLibrary New Jacoby Online Northern Ireland: a divided community Oxford Bibliographies Online Oxford Language Dictionaries (French & German) Oxford Reference Online [IReL] Oxford Reports on International Law Parliament Rolls of Medieval England Past Masters State Papers: Part I - IV Translated Text for Historians: TTH E-Library Women Writers Online

29. Have reference, where’s the text?
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.
There will be other icons which state: Full Text or PDF or HTML.
These will also lead to the full text of the article, perhaps on the same platform, but are the results of links supplied by that platform and not under TCD control.

30. Opens up article in a different database to the one you searched
Live SAMPLE EBSCO SEARCH
lorient AND LA english AND PY 2013
• Experimental investigation of two-phase electrolysis processes: comparison with or without gravity.
Detail Only Available
Academic Journal
By: Derhoumi, Zine; Mandin, Philippe; Roustan, Hervé; Wüthrich, Rolf. Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, Dec2013, Vol. 43 Issue 12, p , 17p, 5 Diagrams, 8 Charts, 5 Graphs; DOI: /s
Subjects: Electrolysis; Gravity; Hydrodynamics; Electrodes; Solution (Chemistry); Electric resistors; Capacitor, Resistor, Coil, Transformer, and Other Inductor Manufacturing; Electronic components, navigational and communications equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers; Other Electronic Parts and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
Add to folder
Check TCD e-journals
Opens up article in a different database to the one you searched
Points at the publisher’s site, in this case, the same place as Springer Netherlands is the publisher
Publisher’s site

31. Off Campus Access

32. An Internet connection College Username College Network Password
Off Campus Access
Off campus you need:
An Internet connection
College Username
College Network Password

33. Off Campus Access
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.

34. Off Campus Access
After you click TCD-affiliated users may click here for access, the system requests your Username and Password.

35. Check that you are up to date with Your browser (Firefox, IExplorer)
Off Campus Access
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
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36. TARA: Trinity’s Institutional Repository (a FREE database)
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.
TARA holds the full text of Trinity researchers’ publications where possible.
TARA is listed on the Library’s catalogue.
TARA content is searchable from the public Web, i.e. you can Google it.
TARA is an open access repository, which means that the full text of the work deposited here is freely accessible to the world via the web. Access is restricted only in unavoidable instances, for example where publisher copyright restrictions prevail. However over 90% of scholarly publishers worldwide now allow some version of the documents they publish to be made available in a repository such as this.
Some of the material included in TARA: Aibidil Gaoidheilge & caiticiosma -- An Hibernian atlas, or, General description of the kingdom of Ireland -- Taylor and Skinner's maps of the roads of Ireland -- Nicholas K. Robinson Collection of Caricature -- TCD MS 00942: Original drawings and paintings of Ireland and Scotland, Vol TCD MS 02208: A true collection of severall letters on various subjects -- TCD MS 03328: Further experiences of an Irish RM -- TCD MS 11103: Course of practical artillery -- JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Journal of Postgraduate Research -- School of Histories and Humanities Digital Image Project -- Stalley Collection -- Barry Archaeological Archive -- Crookshank-Glin Collection -- Edwin Rae Collection -- Modern and Contemporary Irish Art Collection.
The Research Support System is a web-based information system, which incorporates an expertise database. The development of the Research Support System is directed by the Dean of Research. The System has been built in-house by M.I.S. (I.S. Services), and allows members of academic staff to input and update information on their academic interests and research expertise and publications. It is administered from within the Library.

37. Locate a name in the People Finder: http://peoplefinder.tcd.ie/
How to use TARA & RSS
Locate a name in the People Finder:
[2014 BETA version: ]
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.
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.
Lecturer research and publication information (input via the RSS) can be found via the College’s People Finder.
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.
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.

38. Summing Up
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

39. Queries about electronic resources in TCD Library?
For SUBJECT queries, contact your Subject Librarian
For TECHNICAL queries, contact
For general queries, contact the Duty Librarian in the Berkeley or Hamilton Libraries
Electronic resources: link to PowToons 4:30mns.
If using, turn off the sound and stop 2 seconds before the end.