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Online Resources

@ the Library

Michaelmas Term 2012

Trinity College Library Dublin 1 1

Learning Outcomes

By the end of today’s session you will know more about:

• Online resources in TCD Library

• What a Database is

• How to access the Library’s online resources (including off campus access)

• Article search in Stella Search

• How to search within databases

• How to access individual e-journal titles

• How to access e-books

• Linking from databases to full text articles using the TCD Link (two versions)

Trinity College Library Dublin 2

Online Resources in TCD Library

(Library catalogue: 2 interfaces):

• Classic Catalogue

• Stella Search

• Databases

• Electronic or E-journals

• Electronic or E-books

• TARA: Trinity’s IR: Institutional Repository (IR)

• RIAN: IRs of 7 Irish universities and DIT

• Digital Collections Repository

• MARLOC

• Printed Catalogue Online


What are Databases?

• Large amounts of indexed, organised and searchable data.

• Offering high levels of functionality.

• Which make it possible to save, bookmark, download, print and email data.


What else?

Databases can be collections or websites determined by:

• publishing format: E-journal collections, E-book collections, data sets, film or a combination of all formats.

• type of content: Full text material, Abstracting and indexing services, Bibliographic lists, or a combination of all.

• Subject: Science, Nursing, Business, Language, History, General.


Accessing the Library’s Online Resources

You need:

An Internet connection

College Username

College Network Password


WWW.TCD.IE


WWW.TCD.IE/LIBRARY


Library’s WEB address

How to access the Library’s online resources

Example 1

Finding journal articles using

Stella Search

Start: Library home page :

1. In Search Collections go to Stella Search, OR

2. Go directly to Stella Search box, under the TCD crest and enter

search terms


Stella Search


Climate change

Stella Search – Results screen



The results list displays books and journals matching the search terms

Scroll to the bottom of the page to see sample of articles matching your search term


Article Search


Article Search – results screen


LinkSource:

Linking from a reference to full text


How to access the Library’s online

resources

Example 2a

A discipline specific database

Search for

Engineering Village 2

Start: Library home page :

1. In Search Collections go to Databases & E-Books, OR

2. In Support & Training go to Subject Guides, OR

3. Go directly to Stella Search box, under the TCD crest and type

Engineering Village 2, (a Stella search by default)

Result for each: the catalogue record which links to the resource.


Stella Search – database name


Stella Search Results – database name


Off Campus Access

You need

• College username and network login password

• An Internet connection

Off campus, you MUST go through the TCD Library Website or Stella Search to access licensed online resources

• At: TCD-affiliated users may click here for access, the system requests College ID and password

• If a resource is accessed another way, you will NOT be recognised as being a member of TCD or ‘TCD-affiliated’ and will be denied access to the database or e-journal article


Secure Login Screen


How to access the Library’s online

resources

EXAMPLE 2b

A discipline specific database

Search within

Engineering Village 2

Do a Title / Author search

Boolean operators

Examine search page for multilayered functionality

Follow Link resolver “Check TCD e-journals”


Engineering Village 2 – Sample search


Use Boolean

Operators

Choose a search field

Choose a range of

years

Boolean Searching

Boolean operators = certain WORDS.

They help carry out more precise keyword searches.

Most common operators:

AND : finds only Web pages that contain all of the terms

e.g. Trinity AND Dublin

OR : one search term or the other

e.g. Trinity OR Dublin (will give more results)

NOT : excludes results that have certain words

e.g. Trinity AND College NOT Dublin

Use quotation marks, e.g. “Trinity College Dublin”,

to find that exact phrase.


Refine Results


Finding Full Text Article


No full text icon


TCD Linksource icon


Link resolver (Linksource) menu


Clicking on the TCD icon searches the TCD Library e-journals’ collections and the full Library catalogue, for both electronic and hard copy forms of the required title.

How to access the Library’s Online

Resources

EXAMPLE 3

a journal

Search for

Medium Aevum

Search from Library home page under Journal Titles

Note electronic full-text results

Choose to access online, from list of three sources


Journal Titles Search


Search ‘known’ Journal title

Medium Aevum

Search ‘known’ Journal title

Medium Aevum


Choice of electronic and print formats


Choice of 3 full-text online sources

Note difference in coverage.

EXAMPLE 4

a journal

2 Searches for

Common Market Law Review

Use search box under TCD crest (a Stella search, by default)

Typos are corrected by Stella

Note other options in STELLA to limit by format, collection, etc.

OR

• Use E-Journals only search



Resources


Click for access to full-text. Note difference in coverage.

Results for both print & electronic formats with

access to electronic.

E-Journals Only Search


E-Journals A-to-Z


E-Journals A-to-Z - Results


Click for access to full-text. Note difference in

coverage.

What are E-books?

• E-books are usually digitized versions of printed books, although some can be “born digital”

• An E-book of an important current book may not become available until the print copy has been updated to a newer edition.

• E-books can be collected together into packages according to

– Subject

– Historical period

– Reference

– an E-book provider platform


WWW.TCD.IE/LIBRARY


Making of Modern Law

Medieval and Early Modern

Sources (MEMSO)

LION (LIterature Online)

Some TCD Library E-Book collections


Resources

EXAMPLE 5

an E-Book collection

Search

ACLS-Humanities E-Books

Start at Library’s home page

Choose Databases & E-Books

Find ACLS-Humanities E-Book

Use any of the searches to find a book by Mac Niocaill on Vikings


E-Books Results



Resources

EXAMPLE 6

Find the same E-Book:

Ireland before the Vikings using the Library catalogue

Go directly to a catalogue search

Open and display full-text of searched title


Stella E-Book Search


E-Book


Summing Up

Online resources are collections of data, often in databases

Databases Large amounts of organised and searchable data

Made up of E-Journals, E-Books, other databases, combination of all

To consult TCD-purchased resources, users should have an internet connection;

a TCD username and password;

Found resource via the Library’s catalogue record.

The Library web address is the most important URL www.tcd.ie/library

Use the Stella search box, Databases & E-Books or Journal Titles or E-Journals

Use help provided by Subject Guides and Subject Librarians


WWW.TCD.IE/LIBRARY

Queries about electronic resources in TCD Library?

Consult the Subject Guides on the Library home page

www.tcd.ie/Library

Contact your Subject Librarian

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

Contact the Duty Librarian in the Berkeley or Hamilton Libraries


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