Databases A-Z

[NB: limited to 5 simultaneous users]
Full text company and industry news and information, including company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals...
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Business Source Premier

Full text access to over 1,100 academic journals covering accounting, economics, finance, international business and management. It also provides access to over 1,200 trade and general business titles and to almost 5,000 economic, industry and market reports

CAB Direct

CAB Direct is two abstracts databases:

CAB Abstracts: primarily a plant science, agriculture and environmental science resource, CAB Abstracts also covers biotechnology, microbiology, and human health. CAB Abstracts contains more than five million records from over 10,000 sources, including journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.
Global Health: covers public health, health systems, nutrition and medical microbiology. Global Health contains over one million records from more than 5,000 sources.

Coverage: 1973 to present

Cambridge Journals Online
Full text access covering all the main subjects in the humanities, social sciences and hard sciences: mathematics and applied science, neuroscience and biomedicine, history, language and linguistics, political science and international relations.

Cell Press
Full text access to the following titles: Cancer Cell; Cell; Cell Metabolism; Chemistry & Biology; Current Biology; Developmental Cell; Immunity; Molecular Cell; Neuron and Structure
Coverage: varies according to title

ChildData
NOTE: to access the database off-campus click HERE for username and password.
NOTE: Our licence is limited to 5 simultaneous users so occasionally you may not be able to login.

The Library and Information Service of the National Children's Bureau is the UK's most comprehensive collection of material on children and young people from birth to adulthood. Contains four databases - Library Catalogue; Children in the News; Conferences & Events; Organisational Directory.
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CINAHL plus with full text

CINAHL Headings Guide (pdf)
Guide to basic features (pdf)

Indexing for approximately 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Full text of approx 750 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials

Cochrane Library

The prime source of evidence-based healthcare. Contains Systematic Reviews, Controlled Trials Register and more. This database is freely available to anyone on the island of Ireland.

Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)

Fulltext access to 308 comprehensive, top quality journals in areas related to communications and mass media studies. CMMC originated with the merging of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.Includes thesaurus. Access to this database is through the Ebsco interface.

Compendex (EI Engineering Village)

Database Guide (pdf)
Help

Compendex is a major interdisciplinary engineering database offering abstracts from 5,000 engineering journals, conference papers and technical reports. Covers 175 disciplines and major specialities within these broad engineering areas: mechanical, civil, environmental, electrical, materials science, chemical, optics, solid state physics, control, and engineering management. Access to the database is through the Engineering Village interface.
Coverage: 1969 to date

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works

A searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 12,500 pages of material, including about 1,800 pages of reference material, 5,700 pages of personal accounts, and 4,900 pages of session transcripts.

CrossFire

Crossfire is a chemical information resource, consisting of two databases:

Beilstein, which contains the complete Beilstein Database of organic chemical compounds, including detailed information from the ecotoxicology and pharmacological area.

Gmelin, which provides access to the most complete collection of structures, properties, and literature references in inorganic and organometallic chemistry.

Accessing Crossfire: Staff and research students

Training guides

Quick Guide (pdf)
Advanced Manual (pdf)

E-tutorials:

The Crossfire Interface - 15 minutes

Data Searching - 20 minutes

Structure Searching - 15 minutes

Reaction Searching - 20 minutes

CSA

CSA is the host for the following databases:

E-tutorials:

Current Protocols
Full-text access to 7 Wiley Interscience Current Protocols titles: Bioinformatics; Cell Biology; Immunology; Molecular Biology; Neuroscience; Pharmacology; Protein Science.

Dissertation Abstracts

Dissertations Abstracts is the largest single source of information about doctoral dissertations and master’s theses available. It contains over 2 million entries, ranging from the first U.S. dissertation accepted in 1861 to those accepted just this semester.

EBSCO

EBSCO host's these databases:

E-tutorials

Econlit
A comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature. Produced by the American Economic Association, it covers over 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes.

Coverage: 1969 to date

Economist Intelligence Unit - Country Reports (EIU)

Ireland, UK, Germany, France, Spain and Japan: reports from 1996/97 to present through EIU
NB: Password access only (go to "Login" link). Username and password available at Information Desk.
(Other courntries: embargoed access (6 months) through Business Source Premier)

EcoWin

Economic and financial data covering more than 100 countries, as well as aggregates such as Eurozone, Africa, Americas and World. Collected from more than 800 primary sources, e.g. national statistical offices, central banks, financial exchanges, private institutes. Updated daily.

Staff & researchers: install EcoWin software on your computer (see installation instructions). Can only be installed on the DCU computer network. It will not work off-campus

Students: EcoWin software is installed in the Library on the PCs in the Information Commons

Education-Line
Education-line is a freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.

EI Engineering Village

Database Guide
Help

EI Engineering Village is the interface through which the Compendex and Inspec databases can be accessed. You can also carry out a combined search of the two databases and remove duplicate records.

EMBASE

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EMBASE (Excerpta Medica), is the most comprehensive database in biomedicine and pharmacology and gives you access to the most up-to-date information about medical and drug-related subjects. The EMBASE journal collection is international with over 4,500 biomedical journals from 70 countries. Allows simultaneous searching of the Medline database.

Emerald Management Xtra

Access to full text of Emerald's 110 management and marketing journals. Additional reviews of articles in the top 300 management journals from other publishers. Replaces Emerald Fulltext.
NB: for best results, we recommend going straight to the "Advanced Search" facility

Environment and Planning

Environment and Planning is a collection of four urban and regional planning journals. They focus on everything from the environment and nature through planning and policy to theory and design.

ERIC
The largest database in the world relating to education. The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is a digital library sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the US Department of Education. Contains more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
Coverage: 1996 to date

ERIC International
ERIC International consists of two abstract databases which can be searched together or separately:
Australian Education Index: The Australian Education Index provides a sophisticated subscription database consisting of more than 130,000 documents relating to educational research, policy and practice. Coverage: 1979 to date
British Education Index: Information on education in the UK. The British Education Index provides information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Particular strengths include aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs. Coverage: 1975 to date
NOTE: ERIC (the US Educational Resources Information Center) is not available through this database.

ESDU (Engineering Sciences Data Unit)
UPDATE OCT 2009: DCU's access to ESDU (Engineering Sciences Data Unit) will end from October 31, 2009. Our access has been funded by IReL and, regrettably, IReL is no longer in a position to fund this resource.

Provides validated, up-to-date engineering data to modern design engineers and teachers covering 6 engineering industries in 23 Series. Subjects covered include: aerospace, mechanical, process and structural engineering.
NOTE: ESDU contains Java-based interactive graphs and programs. To run these:
-make sure you have the latest version of your web browser (Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) installed
-in your web browsers settings, make sure that Java is enabled and that popups are allowed
Contact DCU's Information Systems & Services if you need assistance with this.

ESRI reports
Full-text of the Economic and Social Research Institute publications. Search or browse and download PDF documents. Covers a wide range of topics including education, health, gender issues, housing, industrial development, and social disadvantage.

Essential Science Indicators
A unique and comprehensive compilation of essential science performance statistics and science trends data derived from ISI's databases. Types of data featured in ESI include most cited author rankings, institutional (university, corporate, government research lab) rankings, national rankings, and journal rankings.

Coverage: 1994-

Factfinder (Business publications)
Full text access to selected Irish business publications. Search and Advanced Search facilities available. Archive backfile varies according to publication. Link through to parent Business World news and company information site

Faculty of 1000: Biology

Systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers in the biological sciences based on the recommendations of over 1000 leading scientists.The entire field of biology is divided into 16 faculties covering 215 disciplines and major specialities within some of the following areas: Biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cell/chemical biology, ecology, genomics, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology and physiology.

Faculty of 1000: Medicine

E-Tutorial
Database Guide (pdf)

Divided into 18 faculties and based on the recommendations of almost 2500 leading international researchers and clinicians, Faculty of 1000 Medicine systematically highlights and reviews the most pertinent papers in all field of medicine.

FAME

Company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership and management for the largest 2.6 million UK and Irish companies, summary information for a further 1 million smaller businesses

Film Index International
Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute and based on the Summary of Film and Television (SIFT) database collated by the BFI over the past 70 years, FiIm Index International provides in-depth indexing of over 121,600 films - from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters - and biographical information for more than 737,000personalities.

FirstLaw
Full text Irish legal decisions and legislation. Service updated daily. Main content:
    -All Irish Superior Court judgments from 1999
    -selected Employment Appeals Tribunal determinations
    -Competition Authority decisions from 2000
    -all Revenue Appeal Commission decisions

To login, (i) click on red "Next" icon at bottom of page; (ii) entering full text source will prompt login box; (iii) enter password details
NB: Password access only. Username and password available at Information Desk

Genome Biology
An international publication which disseminates, discusses and critically reviews information about all areas of biology informed by genomic research. Subjects covered include molecular, cellular, organismal and population biology, as well as genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, genomic methods (including structure prediction), computational biology, sequence analysis (including large-scale and cross-genome analyses), comparative biology and evolution.
Coverage: 2000 - to date

Geoscience World
Provides full text access to peer-reviewed articles from high impact geoscience publications. GeoScienceWorld is the result of a collaboration by six leading earth science societies and one institute to develop cooperatively an electronic research resource for earth sciences.It is interoperable with GeoRef, the bibliographic search database published by the American Geological Institute which includes information on over 3500 publications.

Coverage: varies according to title

Global Books in Print
A comprehensive database of worldwide english-language titles.
NOTE: single user license, therefore, only one person can access GBIP at any one time.

Global Market Information Database (Euromonitor)
You will be prompted for your Novell Username and Password. Read the Terms and Conditions and click on the Accept button to access. To start searching, use the Search menus on the left hand side. The "Existing Users Log in below" box to the right, only applies to personalised features such as saving searches, or creating favourites. Best viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
An online business information system providing comparable international business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. Offering integrated access to over 1 million country, market and lifestyle statistics, 4,500 global, country, industry, company and lifestyle reports company profiles, company market share and brand share rankings, 205 country profiles and 35,000 business information sources.

Health Source Nursing - Academic Edition

Guide to basic features (pdf)

This resource provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.
IMPORTANT NOTE: To view this database open in Internet Explorer or Mozilla FIrefox (do not use Netscape)

Heinonline

Fully searchable and browseable access to full-text collections, including:

Law journal library (over 350 US and international academic law journals going back to first issues)
US Supreme Court library (incl. US Reports from 1754)

Hindawi
Hindawi is a fast growing academic publisher with 40+ journals in the fields of Biology & Medicine, Chemistry, Engineering, Materials Science, and Mathematics. Hindawi is the only "Open Access" publisher with fully Open Access journals spanning a wide range of subjects in Science, Technology, and Medicine.

Coverage: varies according to title

Historical Abstracts
Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts is recognised as a leading bibliography for historical study. It provides resources from 1,700 journals published throughout the World and includes content related to History from countries outside North America and Canada. 20,000 new citations are added to the databases annually.

IEEE Xplore

Represents 30% of electrical engineering and computer science literature. IEL provides access to all IEEE journals, transactions, magazines and conference proceedings; IEE journals and conference proceedings; and current IEEE standards. Full-text is available from 1988 and selected content available from 1950.

Coverage: 1988-

Index to Theses
This database provides summaries of theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland. Irish theses can also be searched separately - search Irish material only
Coverage: 1716 - to date

InformaWorld

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Access to 1000+ peer reviewed journal titles published by Taylor and Francis, and a selection of journals published by Routledge and Psychology Press, covering arts & humanities, social sciences, sport, physics, mathematics, and chemistry.

Inspec (EI Engineering Village)

Database Guide (pdf)
Help

This database indexes and summarises over 4,000 journals and 2,000 conference proceedings, books, reports relating to physics, electronics, electrical engineering, computer science, control, and information technology. Access to the database is through the Engineering Village interface.
Coverage: 1969 - to date

Institute of Physics

Database Guides

Access the full-text of the Institute of Physics journals. Choose search to carry out a keyword/author/title search of the entire collection or choose journal list to browse title list. Create a user account to set-up journal/search alerts. Includes access to archive from 1874.

Coverage: varies according to title

International Accounting Standards (CCH)
Full texts of International Accounting Standards, International Financial Reporting Standards and related materials as published by the IASCF. To access full texts, select from HTML and Java options on top left hand side of screen.

International Medieval Bibliography
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The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c.400-1500) providing a comprehensive and current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes worldwide.

You will need to create an account to access content. Click on 'My Data Login/Create an Account' in the top right hand corner - 'New User' - 'Create an Account'

The world's largest archive of social science data for research with over 6,300 studies from sociology, political science, criminology, history, education, demography, gerontology, international relations, public health, economics and psychology.

Irish Newspaper Archive

A database of digitised Irish newspapers, from 1763 issues of the Freeman's Journal to modern titles such as the Irish Independent and the Galway City Tribune.

NOTES:
-You should use Internet Explorer to view the Irish Newspapers Archive.
-You should have an current version of Adobe Reader installed.

Irish Times Digital Archive (Proquest)

The Irish Times Digital archive is a searchable reproduction of all editions published by the Irish Times from 1859 to 2007. You can search the most recent 12 months' content on www.irishtimes.com

Select Historical Irish Times when you log in:

Irish Statute Book
Full texts of Irish legislation (Acts of the Oireachtas and Statutory Instruments) from 1922-2002.
Availability: via Attorney General's homepage.

ISI Proceedings
ISI Proceedings is now part of Web of Science.

Journal Citation Reports
(Science and Social Science Editions)

Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals. Find information such as: most frequently cited journals; highest impact journals; hottest journals; leading journals; and most published articles in a field.

Coverage: latest available data (2006)

JSTOR

E-tutorials
Database Guide (pdf)

Archive of 117 core scholarly journals in Anthropology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.

Coverage: Varies according to title

Justis

Click on "Continue" in the Sign in section to access.
Full text access to national and international legal sources:
- Case law: Irish, EU, ECHR and British
- Legislation: EU, Council of Europe and UK

Coverage: varies according to title

Kompass [NB: limited to 10 simultaneous users]
Contact details and some basic company information for 1.8 million companies in 75 countries worldwide, including Ireland.
- Search: use Search text (home page), or go to Multi-region search or Advanced search pages
- Browse from 50,000 categories by selecting "browse category" from "Search Type" list in
Search text and Multi-region search options

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching.

Coverage: 1997-

LexisNexis

Nexis UK (News & Business)
The new Lexis-Nexis platform for news and business, containing full text access to thousands of newspapers and company, financial and market research data.
E-tutorials | Database Guides
Lexis Library (Legal)
A comprehensive legal database containing case law, expert commentary, and primary and secondary legislation as amended.
E-tutorials | Database Guides

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts

LLBA provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.

LISA

Library and Information Science Abstracts

Literature Online

Database Guides
E-tutorial

With over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is the world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism. It runs from the 8^th Century to present and includes 340,000 works of poetry, 6,000 works of Drama, 2,250 works of prose as well as 210 journals.

LWW

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher of professional health information for physicians, nurses, specialized clinicians and students. Consists of 25 titles in the biomedical field.

Coverage: Varies according to title

Making of Modern Law
MOML provides access to 10.6 million pages of legal history relating to American and British Commonwealth law from1800. It allows full text searching of 22,000 rare works from casebooks to local practice manuals to speeches - all of which are subdivided into 99 subject areas.

Coverage: 1800-1926

MathSciNet

An extensive database providing summaries of articles from all areas of mathematics.
Coverage: 1940 - to date

MEDLINE® at OVID

Help Guide

The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 11 million citations dating from 1966 to current.

PubMed - freely available version of Medline.

MLA International Bibliography
Provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It comprises a collection of 1.6 million citations drawn from 4,400 journals and other key global sources. Runs from 1963 to the present.

Nature Publishing Group
Includes access to Nature magazine and 19 additional titles from Nature Publishing Group.

Coverage: Varies according to title

NBER Working Papers

Full texts of working papers produced by researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Over 700 papers are added to this database every year
NB: to access papers, go to "Publications" - "Working Papers"

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography tells the stories of over 50,000 people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to those who died in the year 2000.The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography also includes over 10,000 portrait illustrations.

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the ultimate authority on the English language. The largest dictionary of any language in the world, it charts the meaning and evolution of over 600,000 words over the last 1500 years.

Oxford Journals
Consists of 169 online journals from arts, social science, scientific, technical, medical, professional and humanities disciplines. Includes access to JNCI Cancer Spectrum.

Coverage: Varies according to title

Oxford Music Online

Full-text access to:

The Oxford Dictionary of Music: 12,500 entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, and a host of other topics.
Grove Music Online: includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
The Oxford Companion to Music: More than 8,000 articles on range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres.

Oxford Reference Online

Includes over 1 million entries across 25 subject areas from architecture to zoology. It offers the very best in quick reference information together with authoritative, in-depth articles by world-famous authors. It also offers excellent functionality, and a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations and timelines.

Oxford Scholarship Online Pyschology Collection

Tutorial

Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to 80 full text e-books in the areas of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive development. It features all titles from the renowned Oxford Psychology Series. Full title list here.

Oxford Scholarship Online Public Health Epidemiology Collection

Tutorial

Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to 102 full text e-books in the area of public health & epidemiology which discuss the development and assessment of public health issues that affect a diverse range of populations world wide. Full title list here.

Patrologia Latina

This database is a complete electronic version of the first edition of Patrologica Latina, a collection of early Christian theology first published between 1844 and 1855.

Philosopher's Index

A bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. Updated quarterly, The Philosopher's Index monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries.

Coverage: 1940 - to date

Professional Development Collection

Guide to basic features (pdf)

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A highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals in the area of Education, including more than 300 peer-reviewed titles. Some titles go back as far as 1965. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 800 journals.

Project Euclid

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Project Euclid is a non profit portal for society publishers of serial literature in mathematics and statistics. It uses a delivery platform specifically engineered to enhance the impact of mathematical and statistical literature with access to 19 titles.

Coverage: varies according to title

Project Muse
Covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science and gender studies, Project Muse offers over 348 full text titles from over 60 scholarly publishers.

PsycArticles

Guide to basic features (pdf)

PsycArticles is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. It covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 35,000 searchable full text articles from 41 journals published by the APA and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. You can also access the fulltext of this database via linked abstracts in PsycINFO database (see below).
NOTE: To view this database you must use Internet Explorer (do not use Netscape)
Coverage: 1987 - to date

PsycBooks

PsycBooks is the APA's full text e-book collection in the area of psychology. It provides access to 778 books published by APA, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950–2002, 1,027 classic resources in psychology and exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

PsycINFO

Database guide (pdf)

PsycINFO contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. This database also allows seamless linking to the fulltext of articles contained in PsycArticles database (see above)
NOTE: To view this database you must use Internet Explorer (do not use Netscape)
Journal coverage: 1872 - to date

PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive

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Backfile access to the American Physical Society (APS) journals. Access varies according to title and goes as far back as 1897 for Physical Review (Series 1). A complete list of titles is available to browse.
Coverage: Varies according to title

RefWorks

RefWorks is your own personalized online database for saving your references from database searches. You can use RefWorks to easily insert citations in your papers and create a complete, fully formatted reference list in seconds.

Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
REP covers Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. It includes over 25,000 hot-linked cross-references between articles and new links to other editorially reviewed websites

Royal Society of Chemistry
Provides online access to 24 titles: The flagship journal from the RSC is Chemical Communications which publishes short reports of the most innovative research in all areas of the chemical sciences. General chemistry is also served by New Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Society Reviews. The major areas of chemistry, physical, inorganic, organic, and materials are covered by market-leading journals PCCP, Dalton Transactions, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, and the Journal of Materials Chemistry, respectively.

Coverage: Varies according to title

SAGE journals online
SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Searcher is a search engine for searching multiple databases (DCU library's databases) from one simple interface.

Science Citation Index

Part of Web of Science.

ScienceDirect

Database Guide (pdf)
E-tutorials

ScienceDirect offers access to the full-text of over 1,200 journals and navigation across 30 million records with links to 10,000 journal titles - covering all fields of science. Abstracts for some titles as far back as 1967. Full-text availability from 1995.

Coverage: Varies according to title

Scientific World
Access to multidisciplinary database of primary research and review articles covering Environmental/Ecological Sciences, Genomics/Genomics/Proteomics, Pharmacology/Pharmaceutics & Cell Biology.

Coverage: 2001 - to date

SciFinder Scholar

SciFinder Scholar covers biochemistry, organic, macromolecular, applied, physical, inorganic and analytical chemistry. Updated daily, it contains abstracts from more than 8,000 journals, patents, conferences and reports, plus records of over 35 million chemical substances and reactions.

DCU's access is limited to 2 simultaneous users. All users must first register and create a username and password to get access.

Advanced SciFinder Training, Wed 11, 2009
Help guides and tutorials
Creating an account
Access on DCU Campus
Access off DCU campus
System requirements

NOTE: as of October 1, 2009, we have retired access to the older client-based version of SciFinder Scholar. This software may still be installed on PCs across campus but will not work. You can continue to use the web version of SciFinder.

SIAM
SIAM exists to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities. Includes full text access to all articles in the 13 SIAM journals. The electronic editions of SIAM's journals are published on an accelerated article by article basis far in advanced of them being available in print.

Coverage: 1997-to date

Social Services Abstracts

Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Social Science Citation Index
Part of Web of Science.
Coverage: 1990 - to date

Sociological Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences.

SourceOECD

Access to 10 major statistical resources in the world's most popular economic and social statistical database. Datasets include: International Trade by Commodities, Science & Technology, Service Stats. STAN Industry Structural Analysis, Structural Statistics for Industry & Services, Monthly International Trade, International Development, International Trade & Competitiveness, Main Economic Indicators, Measuring Globalisation Stats.

SPIE Digital Library

Quick Start Guide

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 230,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually.

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Sport Discus

SPORT Discus is an international database of references in all aspects of sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment.
SPORT Discus includes citations to over 47,500 books etc., and indexed articles from more than 2,000 current journals. Approximately 26,000 documents are added each year.

SpringerLink now incorporating all Kluwer titles

SpringerLink offers electronic access to journals from Springer-Verlag, a prominent scientific publisher. It also offers access to the work of publishers, including Urban and Vogel, Steinkopff, and Birkhäuser. Access over 1100+ fully peer reviewed journals. Choose Browse and Filter by Journal to view available titles. You can also search the entire collection by keyword, title, author, etc.

Coverage: Varies according to title

SwetsWise	Database Guide (pdf)
SwetsWise is a database of approximately 80% of the print journals held in DCU Library and its linked college libraries; St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra and Mater Dei Institute. To check which library holds a title in print, search the Library Catalogue and choose 'combined catalogue' in the "Collections" drop down menu. Coverage: 1989 to date ..

Taylor and Francis See InformaWorld - access to journals published by Taylor and Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press.

Translation Studies Abstracts/Bibliography of Translation Studies
A comprehensive resource for scholars of translation, intercultural studies and cross cultural communication. Contains abstracts of articles from an extensive list of journals, electronic publications, collected volumes, and doctoral theses.

UlrichsWeb

Ulrichsweb is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,00 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.

Web of Knowledge
Web of Knowledge from ISI is a web-based platform which provides access to high-quality research information. Several products are available to search within the Web of Knowledge platform:

Web of Science (including ISI Proceedings)
Journal Citation Reports
Essential Science Indicators
Derwent Innovations Index

E-tutorials

Introduction to Web of Knowledge (4:00 minutes)
Search All Databases (05:15 minutes)

Web of Science

Web of Science is a multi-disciplinary citation database providing access to 9,760 of the most prestigious high impact research journals in the world. It consists of the following databases:

Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (1990-present)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (1990-present)

It also offers the unique feature "citation searching". This allows users to find out how many times a particular paper/author has been cited and by whom.

Search Tips (07:33 minutes)
Managing Search Results (04:14 minutes)
Saving Search Histories and Creating Alerts (05:45 minutes)
Cited Reference Searching (06:54 minutes)
Citation Alerting (4:17 minutes)

Westlaw IE

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Updated daily, Westlaw IE offers online access to Irish legal materials such as case reports, case digests, legal journals and unreported judgements. Search Round Hall's legal material dating as far back as 1976.

Westlaw UK

Westlaw UK is an online legal database containing a comprehensive collection of UK Law Reports, legislation and Law journals as well as EU, US and International content. Combined with a highly sophisticated online platform, the constantly updated database provides superb access to UK, European and International Law.

Wiley Electronic Reference Works
Searchable, full text access to the following reference e-books:

Wiley InterScience
Full-text access to nearly 400 Wiley journals covering subject areas including: business, chemistry, computer science, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematic, physics, psychology and social sciences. Register to take advantage of alerting services and stay on top of the latest developments in your field.Now includes access to Electronic Reference Works.

Coverage: Varies according to title.

Wilson OmniFile

Wilson OmniFile Full Text is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences and Wilson Business.

Coverage: Varies according to title

Women Writers Online
The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project, providing access to texts by pre-Victorian women writers and covering a period from 1400 to 1850.

World Development Indicators
Contains statistical data for over 600 development indicators and time series data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change and charted.

Coverage: 1960-2003 (selected data from 2004)

World SciNet Maths