Library HITS Helpful Information for Trinity Students/Staff Library eResources for Languages & Literatures Michaelmas Term 2013 Trinity College Library Dublin, College Street, Dublin 2

How to… Learning Outcomes Trinity College Library Dublin, College Street, Dublin 2 Define Electronic Resources Access them off campus Locate them on the Library website Search databases Identify key databases for languages and literatures

Library eResources A Library eResource is a resource which is available online via the Web. Examples are: –A database –An electronic journal (e-journal) –An electronic book (e-book) –An online newspaper –The Library catalogue (Stella Search) Trinity College Library Dublin

Will this work at home? All our electronic resources can be accessed off campus by using your College username and network login password You have to go from a link on the Library website (such as Stella Search), or you won’t get a working link – you can’t just Google the name of the journal or database if you want it to work off campus Once you follow these steps, you will see the following screen… Trinity College Library Dublin

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Where are these resources listed? All our databases are listed on our Databases and E-Books page All our e-journals are searchable on our E- Journals Only page – there are thousands! HOWEVER, they are all listed in our Stella Search too… Most e-books will also be in Stella Individual resources will be listed on your Subject Librarian’s page – use the Subject Guides link Trinity College Library Dublin

How do you access the Library's eResources for your subject? Trinity College Library Dublin

How do you access the Library's eResources for your subject? Trinity College Library Dublin

How do you access the Library's eResources for your subject? Trinity College Library Dublin

What is a Database? Stores and organises large amounts of data/information Provides access to pre-selected material that is reliable, authoritative and scholarly

Basically… Use databases to find items you don’t know about already – for example, on subjects you need to write about in an essay Use the Stella Search Catalogue tab to find items you already know exist – e.g., articles from reading lists or mentioned in lectures Using databases means you don’t have to go to each journal individually to search it Trinity College Library Dublin

What can you find in a database? Trinity College Dublin Library subscribes to 350+ databases, and there are further databases that are available free on the web Some databases cover only books Some cover only journal articles or newspaper articles Some cover only theses Most databases cover a range of publication types Trinity College Library Dublin

Doesn’t Google have all this? By searching only subscription databases and limiting your search to scholarly or peer- reviewed sources, you can virtually guarantee that all materials retrieved will be appropriate for a research paper Trinity College Library Dublin

Which are the best databases to use? There are links to the FULL list of dozens of databases for your subject on the Databases and E-Books page, and on your Subject Librarian’s page This can be a bit overwhelming, so… On your Subject Librarian’s page, look for “Subject Librarian Recommends…” for a short list of the most useful ones Trinity College Library Dublin

Which are the key databases for languages and literatures? Arts & Humanities Citation Index Multidisciplinary index for the arts and humanities JSTOR Multidisciplinary index for the arts and humanities and other subject areas LexisNexis Foreign language news Trinity College Library Dublin

Which are the key databases for languages and literatures? Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics LIterature ONline (LION) Labels itself “the home of literature and criticism”. Contains full text work of drama, poetry and prose in English as well as criticisms. Particularly useful for students of English Trinity College Library Dublin

Which are the key databases for languages and literatures? MLA International Bibliography Index for books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics Project Muse Provides full text access to over 300 scholarly journals published by more than 60 publishers in the humanities, arts and social sciences Trinity College Library Dublin

“Search Strategies” for Databases Create a search statement using keywords Use databases appropriate to your topic. Use keywords and controlled language Use Boolean searching (AND, OR & NOT) Change approaches as necessary – gathering information is not a linear process Continue to identify applicable keywords and controlled vocabulary to go back and check in the selected database(s) and other resources You will often be asked to include your search strategy in your essay Trinity College Library Dublin

Utilising Database Features To search effectively it is important to become familiar with the database. Knowing shortcuts and quirks of the database, will save time Some important characteristics to identify are how to truncate words, how to search for a phrase, and how the Boolean operators are used, and what limits can be applied Refer to the database guides for help Trinity College Library Dublin

Basically… AND will give you less OR will give you more Trinity College Library Dublin

Truncation Truncate search terms to retrieve all variants of a term Truncation symbols vary between e-resources. Examples include: *, ?, !, % and $ –For example: If you search on the term plagiar* in ProQuest databases, you will retrieve articles that contain any words that begin with the letters plagiar, including: plagiarism, plagiarize, plagiarizing, plagiarized, plagiarizer, plagiarizers, plagiarist, etc. Using the truncation symbol will allow you to broaden your search to include materials on any variant of a term Trinity College Library Dublin

Limiting Most databases have limiting features that will let you focus the results of your search –You may be able to limit your searches to retrieve only scholarly or peer-reviewed articles –You can also limit to particular date ranges or particular journals Limiting your searches will allow you to narrow your search, resulting in a smaller list of more relevant materials Trinity College Library Dublin

Types of Searches Most databases have an Easy and an Advanced search function –Easy or Basic Search Often these only have one search box and operate in a similar way to Google –Advanced Search Gives more control to the user Allows for a more refined search Often allows multiple search terms in multiple fields Trinity College Library Dublin

You’ve done a search, found a reference… And the full text is there, great! However, if there’s no full text link button: –Find and click the “link resolver” TCD button - may show the text: “Check TCD e-journals”; or an image, such as This links to a piece of software which checks if the Library has the article you want, either in another database or in hardcopy, anywhere in the Library’s collections Trinity College Library Dublin Where’s the full text?

Link resolver (Linksource) menu Trinity College Library Dublin Clicking on the TCD icon searches the Library’s e-journal collections and the full Library catalogue, for both electronic and hardcopy forms of the required title

E-Books Trinity College Library Dublin E-book collections are listed with our databases under Databases and E- books on the Library’s homepage Most e-book single titles, within those collections, can be found by searching Stella A small percentage of e-books in our collections can only be found by searching the provider or publisher’s database or platform

Trinity College Library Dublin 27 Early English Books Online (EEBO) Past Masters ACLS Humanities E-Book Oxford Reference Online M y i L i b r a r y Women Writers Online Medieval and Early Modern Sources (MEMSO) LION (LIterature Online) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Some TCD Library E-Book collections

Summary: how to… Learning Outcomes Trinity College Library Dublin, College Street, Dublin 2 Define Electronic Resources Access them off campus Locate them on the Library website Search databases Identify key databases for languages and literatures