1 | Leabharlann Choláiste na Tríonóide / Trinity College Library Dublin TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin Electronic Resources Librarian

1 | Leabharlann Choláiste na Tríonóide / Trinity College Library Dublin

TCD LIBRARY DATABASES

Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin Electronic Resources Librarian

Library databases

(an introduction)

Michaelmas Term 2014




• 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




DATABASES

– Large amounts of data, indexed, organised and searchable

– Differing technical capabilities: content can usually be:

saved, bookmarked, downloaded, printed and emailed

– Many different providers

– Many are free

– TCD Library purchases access to over 350 specialised databases

What are Databases?




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?




YOU NEED DATABASES TO FIND JOURNAL ARTICLES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKIbnNLCh8g




The College website

WWW.TCD.IE




WWW.TCD.IE/LIBRARYThe Library website




Start at the Library home page, http://www.tcd.ie/library/

1. Under Search Collections go to Databases & E-Books

2. 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.

Search for a database

http://www.tcd.ie/library/

http://www.tcd.ie/Library/




The Library websiteSearch Collections













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







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


resource.














If you know the database name:

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.


resource.







The Library website
















• 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




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




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

Effective searching

http://support.knovel.com/data-search-detailed-instructions/

http://www.tcd.ie/Library/about/copyright.php#ElectronicResourcesincludingEJournalsEBooksandDatabases




E-books




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 booksor

digital works which adopt a book-like format on screen

Publisher/Provider platforms

offer single titles or title bundles




• 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




Books@Ovid

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

Knovel

STAT!Ref

123Library

E-books




E-books




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?




Opens up article in a different database to the one you searched

Publisher’s site




Off Campus Access




Off campus you need:

An Internet connectionCollege Username

College Network Password

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.

Off Campus Access




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

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)

JavaMicrosoft Silverlight

Adobe Flash

ALL FREE

Off Campus Access




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.

http://www.tara.tcd.ie/

http://peoplefinder.tcd.ie/







How to use TARA & RSS

Locate a name in the People Finder: http://peoplefinder.tcd.ie/

[2014 BETA version: http://tcdpeoplefinder.azurewebsites.net/ ]

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.



http://tcdpeoplefinder.azurewebsites.net/

http://tcdpeoplefinder.azurewebsites.net/





Databases Large amounts of organised, searchable dataE-Journals, E-Books, collections of data, images, film, etc.

Linking references to full text:

Off campusInternet connection, a TCD username and passwordAccess via the Library’s catalogue record http://www.tcd.ie/library

Find Library online resourcesDatabases & E-Books pageStella search boxSubject Librarians’ Subject Guides pages

TARA is Trinity’s Institutional Repository

Summing Up




Queries about electronic resources in TCD Library?

For SUBJECT queries, contact your Subject Librarian

www.tcd.ie/Library/support/subjects/

For TECHNICAL queries, contact [email protected]

For general queries, contact the Duty Librarian in the Berkeley or Hamilton Libraries

http://www.powtoon.com/p/cTqEiL7wML1/

http://www.tcd.ie/Library/support/subjects/

http://www.tcd.ie/Library/support/subjects/

mailto:[email protected]




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1 | Leabharlann Choláiste na Tríonóide / Trinity College Library Dublin TCD L IBRARY D ATABASES Clíona Ni Shúilleabháin Electronic Resources Librarian