AATA : Art & Archaeology Technical Abstracts
Includes large sections devoted to architectural conservation, building materials, etc. Freely available but register first. Further help on use

ABES (Annotated Bibliography of English Studies)
Language, linguistics, cultural studies, literary studies and film studies. Further help on use

ABI Inform (ProQuest)
Business studies. Includes accounting, advertising, finance, economics, human resources, management and marketing. Timespan: 1970 onwards.
Availability of full text: please note that there may be an embargo by the publisher on providing full text for very recent journal issues and older issues may also provide abstracts only.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text access to more than 3,430 scholarly publications in the humanities, social sciences, language and linguistics, arts and literature. Timespan:  1965 onwards. The database is updated daily.
Availability of full text: please note that there may be an embargo by the publisher on providing full text for very recent journal issues and older issues may also provide abstracts only.

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB)
A digital collection offered by the ACLS in collaboration with ten learned societies, nearly 80 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access, 1500+ titles. Further help on use

ACM Digital Library
The full text of every article published by ACM, including over 60 years of archives.

Advanced Polymers Abstracts
Properties of thermoset and thermoplastic resins. Coverage: 1986 - current.

Aerospace and High Technology Database
Aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. Coverage: 1962 onwards.

African Development Indicators (ADI) Online
Africa Development Indicators 2007 provides a detailed collection of data on Africa. It contains over 1,000 indicators covering 53 African countries. ADI provides data from 1960 to 2006 grouped into 14 chapters.

Agris Database
Agricultural sciences and technology including forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences, human nutrition and food. Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Timespan: 1975 onwards.

AIDS and Cancer Research Abstracts 
AIDS, immunology, virology and cancer genetics. Coverage: 1982 - current.

Algology Mycology and Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C)
Reproduction, growth, life cycles, biochemistry, genetics. Coverage: 1982 - current.

Aluminium Industry Abstracts
Timespan: 1975 onwards. Aluminum industry, melting, casting, and foundry.

American Chemical Society (ACS)
Online access to the journals published by the ACS. Includes archival access to all titles back to 1879.

American Geophysical Union Journals
The American Geophysical Union is a worldwide scientific community that publishes articles relating to the earth sciences. Users have access to the current content of 16 AGU journals, including the Journal of Geophysical Research, which comprises seven disciplinary sections, and the highly cited Reviews of Geophysics. Coverage is from 2009 onwards.

American Medical Association Journals
Timespan: 1998 onwards. Online access to the journals published by the AMA including Archives.

American Meteorological Society Legacy Journals Online
Access is to the fulltext of the backfiles of the 11 AMS journals. Timespan: 1873 onwards. Additional access, backfiles to present volumes, is available for: Bulletin of the AMS; Journal of Climate; Journal of Atmospheric Sciences; Monthly Weather Review.

American Physical Society
Provides access to the journals published by the APS as well as to PROLA, the Physical Reviews Online Archive (archival access to all APS titles as far back as 1893).

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Access to the fulltext of all the journals of the ASME - early volumes are not available online. On campus only.

Further help on use

American Society of Plant Biologists
Access to journals and other publications of ASPB. Further help on use

Animal Behavior Abstracts 
Aggression, learning, foraging and ingestion. Coverage: 1982 - current.

Animal Health and Production Compendium
A global compilation of animal health and production knowledge for practical decision-making from CABI. Focusing on all aspects of animal health and production including diseases, nutrition, husbandry and breeding.

Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature
Selective, critical analysis of new historical books, journals or journal articles. Publisher: American Historical Association. Timespan: 2000 onwards. Print index from 1912 available in James Joyce Library at Reference 016.9. To login click on 'IP authentication' at the top right of the home page.

Annual Reviews
Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Timespan: 1932 onwards. Further help on use

ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering
Communications engineering, biotechnology, medical technology. Coverage: 1981 onwards.

APHA Veterinary Datasheet Compendium
APHA Veterinary Datasheet Compendium is a compilation of datasheets on over 620 veterinary medicines for sale in Ireland. Further help on use

Applied Science & Technology Index
400 trade magazines, industry publications, and scholarly publications on the practical aspects of all areas of engineering, technology, and science, since 1983. Contains Full text. Further help on use

Aquaculture Abstracts (ASFA)
Aquaculture, culture of fish and other organisms. Coverage: 1984 - current.

Aqualine
Water resources, water and wastewater treatment, water pollution. Coverage: 1960 onwards.

Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality (ASFA3)
Aquatic pollution, prevention and control. Coverage: 1990 - current.

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
Timespan: 1978 onwards. Print version in James Joyce Library at Abstracts and Indexes 574, covers 1971 to 1977.

ARTbibliographies Modern - ABM
Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. Coverage: 1974 onwards.

Art Index Plus
Author and subject index to art periodicals and museum bulletins covering Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, City Planning, Graphic Arts, Design. Further help on use

Arts and Humanities Citation index (via Web of Science) Indexes over 1,000 leading journals in a wide range of Arts and Humanities subjects. Timespan: 1945 onwards. Print version in James Joyce Library at Reference 016.8 covers 1975 onwards. A range of online tutorials for various aspects of Web of Science is available. Further help on use

ARTstor
ARTstor is a collection of over 550,000 digital images offering a broad view of art, architecture and all aspects of visual and material culture, as well as archaeological and anthropological objects.
User benefits include the facility to browse, search and view images and their associated data; to create, save and share groups of images; to develop presentations on-line and off-line; to create web-pages and study guides; to upload personal images and sound files. More....

To use IE 6: From the ARTStor homepage - Click on Go On the page that says Upgrade your browser you will see - “Not Ready to Make the Change?” across from this text click on GO.

ASSIA - Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
Covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly. Coverage 1987 onwards.

Avery Index
Architecture, interior design, town planning and urban design, garden design. Timespan: 1934- . Print version in Architecture Library (Richview) covers material published since 1934 - with selective coverage of 1860s onwards.

BCIN : Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network
Database to references relating to the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property. Contains 2000 citations since 1955. Contributing libraries and documentation centres include the Getty Conservation Institute, ICCROM, ICOM, ICOMOS, etc. Freely available. Further help on use

Beilstein CrossFire (via UCD Intranet)
Organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organometallic compounds, structures and reactions. Timespan: covers resources published from the 18th century onwards.

BHI - British Humanities Index
Indexes and abstracts humanities-related articles published in over 300 British academic journals, newspapers and magazines. Humanities interpreted broadly to include arts, literature, music, history, politics, economics, society, current affairs, architecture and popular science. Coverage: 1962 - present. Updated monthly.

BIAB: British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography
This database contains datasets covering publications from AD 1695 to the present day on archaeology and the historic environment, historic buildings, maritime and industrial archaeology, environmental history, and the conservation of material culture - with a geographical focus on Britain and Ireland. Further help on use

Bibliographie Nationale Francaise
Details material received by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France through legal deposit. Includes books and serials published, printed and distributed in France. Timespan: 2001 - Present.

Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
comprehensive indexing of over 291 key international English-language periodicals in the biological and agricultural sciences, since 1983. Contains Full Text. Further help on use

Biological Sciences
Biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology. Coverage: 1982 - current.

Biological Sciences and Living Resources (ASFA1)
Marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms. Coverage: 1971 - current.

Biology Digest
Life sciences, evolution, genetics, behavioral science. Coverage: 1989 - current.

BioMedCentral
This service provides free access to over 100 peer-reviewed, open access biomedical research publications. These include journal articles, current reports and meeting abstracts, as well as information about current controlled trials.

BIOSIS Previews
Biological and biomedical sciences, agriculture, zoology, veterinary science and pharmacology.  Includes information on research reports, reviews, meetings and U.S. patents in the Life Sciences. Allows simultaneous searching of the material in both Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts RRM. Timespan: 1969 onwards.  Print equivalent, Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts RRM, are available in the James Joyce Library at Abstracts and Indexes 570 and covers from 1925 onwards (1980 onwards for RRM material).

Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
Biochemical applications, genetic engineering, gene therapy, and cybernetics. Coverage: 1982 - current.

Biotechnology Research Abstracts
Biochemical, medical, and microbial technology as applied to bioengineering, medicine, agriculture and environmental science. Coverage: 1980 - current.

Biz/Ed Premier
Provides full text access in E BOOK format to 25 Business related textbooks published by leading UK publishers covering Management, Accounting/Finance, Economics, Marketing, Consumer Research , Organisational behaviour, Advertising, Human resource management, Management information systems. Subject catalogue can be browsed here.

Blackwell Synergy
Blackwell Synergy journal collection is now part of Wiley Interscience.

BMJ Journals
Access to the fulltext of the 23 BMJ medical journals, including the British Medical Journal. Further help on use

Books24x7 ITPro
Books 24X7 ITPro contains over 6,100 ebooks, offering coverage of over 100 different information technology topics including the latest programming languages, coding methodologies, network security, telecom protocols and IT asset management strategies.

Note: To begin searching, if prompted login using your UCD Connect details

Books@Ovid
Coverage: 1950 onwards. Includes Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and Oxford Textbook of Surgery.

Books Made in Italy
Bibliographic database of over 800,000 Italian titles currently in print. Includes the output of over 1800 Italian publishing houses. Comprises largely academic titles. Includes forthcoming titles and non-book materials. Further help on use

BOPCRIS
Papers from over one million pages of British Official Parliamentary Publications from the eighteenth century, 1688-1834, drawn from the University libraries at Southampton and Cambridge and the British Library. Coverage includes the Journals of the House of Commons and Lords, Parliamentary Registers, Sessional Papers of the House of Commons, Acts, Bills and Local and Personal Acts.

British Humanities Index - BHI
Indexes and abstracts humanities-related articles published in over 300 British academic journals, newspapers and magazines. Humanities interpreted broadly to include arts, literature, music, history, politics, economics, society, current affairs, architecture and popular science. Coverage: 1962 - present. Updated monthly.

British Library Public Catalogue
Catalogues, with date coverage, include: Humanities 1975 onwards, Retrospective for pre 1975, Sciences 1974 onwards, Music pre 1981, Music 1981 onwards, Conference Proceedings 1800 onwards, Journals 1700 onwards, and Books and report literature pre 1950 and 1980 onwards. Further help on use

British National Bibliography
Details material deposited by publishers with the British Library under the copyright laws of the UK and Ireland. Includes mainly books and serial titles. Coverage:1950 to present.

British Standards Online
The authoritative and most current source of standards from BSI. Also contains cross references to standards from international organisations. In addition to standards, the site also includes: Technical handbooks, Codes of practice, Guidelines Specifications for products, dimensions, and performance, and Glossaries. More information.
To begin searching, click on the BSOL logo or the "My Subscriptions" link in the top right hand corner of the page.

Business Insights International (BII)
Business strategy and market research reports which provide in-depth analysis of international trends relating to Consumer goods: Energy: Finance/Banking: healthcare products: Technology/Telecommunications 400 reports, regularly updated provide primary and secondary quantitative and qualitative research results. Strong coverage of European business activities. Users can search by Firm name, Industry sector, and product. Translatable reports into major European languages plus Mandarin Chinese and excellent graphics, tables etc. Further help on use

Business Source Premier
A collection of popular business magazines, scholarly journals and trade publications. Covering such topics as management, accounting, marketing, HR, and finance, it includes full text for thousands of periodicals, including Business Week, American Banker, Forbes, Fortune, and The Economist. Also contains such business information sources as the EIU Country reports, Company Profiles, Industry Profiles, Market Search reports, and SWOT analyses.
Availability of full text: please note that there may be an embargo by the publisher on providing full text for very recent journal issues and older issues may also provide abstracts only.

CAB Abstracts Plus
Provides access to a large and varied selection of full text materials, all linked from the comprehensive CAB Abstracts database. It is made up of 6 components, CAB Reviews, CAB Reviews Archive, Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases, and Distribution Maps of Plant Pests. The sixth component, CAB Abstracts Full Text Select is a grey literature service, which contains over 20,000 hard to find full text documents from conference proceedings (currently over 220), reports and journals (currently over120) not available through the major aggregators. Further help on use

CABDirect
Offers access to CAB Abstracts and Global Health from CABI. Timespan: Material published since 1900. Further help on use

Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts
Biology of bones and teeth, ubiquitous role of ionic calcium. Coverage: 1982 - current.

Cambridge Journals Online
Provides full text access to almost 200 journals in the sciences, humanities and social sciences published by Cambridge University Press.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Pure, Applied and Social Sciences, and Arts. Covers a wide range of subjects, including: art and architecture, education, sociology, business, biological and environmental sciences, engineering and materials science and computing. Coverage: 1806 onwards. Further help on use

Canis
Canine specific clinical information reference source, including images. Further help on use

Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramic Abstracts
Ceramics processing, building ceramics, properties and testing.

Chemoreception Abstracts
Biology and sensory studies of taste, smell, and pheromones. Coverage: 1982 - current.

Cinahl Plus (Cumulative index to nursing and allied health)
Nursing, health care, health education and occupational therapy. Timespan: Material published since 1937.

Civil Engineering Abstracts
From CSA/ASCE. Construction, architecture, structural design, utilities, transportation systems. Coverage: 1966 to current.

Clinical Evidence
Clinical Evidence is a monthly, updated directory of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions, published by the BMJ Publishing Group. It provides a concise account of the current state of knowledge, ignorance and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of a wide range of clinical conditions based on thorough searches of the literature. It deliberately does not make recommendations. It summarises the best available evidence and where there is good evidence it says so. Further help on use

Cló (Irish Books in Print)
Offers bibliographic details of Irish-published, Irish-authored and Irish-interest titles currently in print. Includes also listings from Books Ireland of latest Irish-published books and a publisher and distributor contact database.
To access click on "Irish Books in Print" on Cló homepage and then click "Log in with IP Authentication" when prompted.

Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases (including the ‘Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews’ and the ‘Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects’). It provides reliable, up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care and is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. Freely available on Web to users on the island of Ireland.

Compendex (via Engineering Village 2)
Engineering including mechanical, civil, environmental and electrical, air and water pollution, road transportation and waste management. Timespan: 1969 onwards. Further help on use

Composites Industry Abstracts
Ceramic matrix composites, fiber synthesis, laminates. Coverage: 1986 - current.

Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
This database provides a comprehensive monthly update on the latest theoretical research and practical applications from around the world, with the monitoring of over 3,000 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications. Coverage: 1981 onwards.

Computing Reviews
Computing Reviews compiles critical reviews of current literature (books, journal articles, conference papers, etc.) in computer science, providing an overview of recent developments in the field. Features include a "Hot Topics" area, search engine, browsing capability and full-text links to literature reviewed (where available to UCD). Further help on use

Conference Papers Index
Life sciences, environmental sciences, aquatic sciences.Coverage: 1982 Onwards.

Construction Information Service (Irish CIS)
Building, engineering, design and construction. Includes relevant British Standards, building regulations and legislative information and the publications of major construction research organisations (e.g. BRE, CIRIA, CIBSE). Irish and UK emphasis. Part of the Royal Institute of British Architects/Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Technical Indexes series. Further help on use

Consultant
CONSULTANT is a Veterinary diagnostic support system used to suggest possible diagnoses or causes for clinical signs and symptoms and to provide a brief synopsis of the diagnosis/cause. Further help on use

Copper Data Center Database
Copper alloys, physical metallurgy, fabrication, properties and applications. Coverage: 1965 onwards.

Corrosion Abstracts
Corrosion characteristics, prevention, resistance. Coverage 1980 onwards.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives and Reference Works
This database provides primary sources for therapists, clients and students on forty different topical subject areas in psychology. It has three major sections; psychotherapy transcripts, primary accounts and handbook reference works. Further help on use

CPS (Current Population Surveys) Utilites
Contains data, documentation and Windows software to help researchers find and extract data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. The Historical Series of Annual Supplements includes Computer Usage, Tobacco Usage, Outgoing Rotations, Food Security, Child Support/Alimony, Immunization, Veterans surveys etc. , and holds data from as early as 1962.
To access the database: click on 'CPS on Web' on the CPS home page - located on the left of the screen. First time users must register individually, choosing their own username and password, which they should retain and use for future access.  

Croner-i Health and Safety Expert
A full text service for those working in occupational health and safety. It includes EU legislation, HSE publications, tools to help with risk assesment, risk management systems, 25 relevant British Standards. Subscribers from UCD Dublin can join in Discussion Forums and sign up for email alerts.

Crop Protection Compendium
A global compilation of crop protection knowledge for practical decision-making from CABI. Including information on crops, countries, pests, diseases and weeds and their natural enemies.

Current Protocols
Provides full text access to 7 Current Protocol Manuals in the subjects of Chemistry and Life Sciences. Each title is updated 4 times a year and updates include both new and revised material. Available titles are listed here . Further help on use

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
The Current Digest of the (Post-)Soviet Press was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. Further help on use

Current Awareness Abstracts (Aslib)
Library studies, information science and information management. Timespan: 1989 onwards. Print version available in James Joyce Library at Reference 016.02 covers 1992 onwards.

DAAI - Design and Applied Arts Index
Design, crafts and applied arts. Annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers plus data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms. Coverage: 1973 onwards.

Derwent Innovations Index (via Web of Knowledge)
Derwent Innovations Index combines patent records from /Derwent World Patents Index/ with patent citation information from Patents Citation Index. The merged data set comprises 14.3 million inventions from 41 worldwide patent-issuing authorities. Three subjects are available:

• Chemical Section (Via Web of Science)

• Engineering Section (Via Web of Science)

• Electrical and Electronic Section (Via Web of Science)

Coverage: 1963 onwards.

Deutsche Nationalbibliografie
Offers bibliographic details of material received by Die Deutsche Bibliothek through legal deposit. Includes material published, printed and distributed in Germany. Covers German-languages titles published abroad and foreign-language publications about Germany. Material includes books, periodicals, disserations, electronic publications etc. Timespan: 1945 onwards. Print version available in James Joyce library at Store 015.43 Coverage: 1945-1965 or GR 015.43 Coverage: 1966-1990.

Dictionaries online
Check our separate web page listing a number of online dictionaries.

Dictionary of Old English : A - G online
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language, using today's most advanced technology. The DOE complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period 1100-1500 A.D.) and the Oxford English Dictionary, the three together providing a full description of the vocabulary of English.

Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus
The Corpus consisting of at least one copy of every Old English text, more copies are included if they is significant because of the date or dialect. The Corpus contains approximately four million words of Old English, plus another million words of Latin.

Digital Book Index
Requires a personal login to be set up. Provides links to more than 120,000 eBook title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 80,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.

Directory of Open Access Journals
This service, hosted by Lund University Library, provides free access to over 2400 quality-controlled, open access journals in all subjects and languages. A high proportion of the titles are in the humanities and social sciences.

Dissertation and Theses Abstracts - See Proquest Dissertation and Thesis Database

Dutch Bibliograpy Online

Details material received by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) through legal deposit. Offers bibliographic details of books, serials, etc published within the Netherlands from 1974 to the present.

Early English Books Online
Early English Books Online (EEBO) is a digital collection of over 125,000 books published between 1473 and 1700. EEBO includes the full texts of almost all books, pamphlets and broadsides published in English in any country from the beginning of print to the year 1700. Since so many Irish books of this period do not survive in Ireland, EEBO is a particularly valuable resource for Irish-based students and scholars.

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
Earthquake engineering, earthquake resistant design and analysis. Coverage: 1971 onwards.

e-Books
Check our separate web page listing a number of key eBooks services available at UCD.

EBSCOhost web
Hosts a number of research databases including, Business Source Premier and Cinahl. Further help on use

ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online contains digitised images of every page of almost 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Its format allows full-text searching of the approximately 33 million pages in the areas of history, geography, literature, language, social science, religion, law, fine arts, music, medicine, science and technology.

Ecology Abstracts
Ecology. Timespan: 1982 onwards. Print version available in James Joyce Library at Abstracts and Indexes 574 covers 1980 onwards.

Econlit
Published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application. Coverage: 1969 onwards.

Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
More than 160 years of articles from the Economist are available online with The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003. The archive contains more than 600,000 pages of the weekly magazine's reporting and analysis. It is a joint project between Gale - part of Cengage Learning - and the Economist. Further help on use

Economist Intelligence Unit Country Profiles and Reports
The Economist Intelligence Unit Country Profiles and Reports provide background and the historical context of current economic and political events in a country. The Profiles ceased in 2008. The following countries are covered by Development Studies Library reports subscription in 2009: Angola, DRC Congo, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Timor Leste, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Reports for other countries may be available in Business Source Premier on this database list.

EcoWin Pro (Reuters)
The Reuters EcoWin Economic & Financial database consists of global economic and financial data covering more than 100 countries worldwide, as well as aggregates such as: Euro Zone, Europe, Africa, Americas and World. Data is collected from more than 800 primary sources: national statistical offices, central banks, financial exchanges, private institutes as well as other data sources. In addition, the application provides a flexible charting and reporting tool offering a comprehensive range of analytical options. Used together with the data provided, it supports the work of financial markets researchers, or those involved in economic, fixed income or equity research etc.
Please Note: Access or download Client software, required to use this product, from NAL (in the Graphics and Publishing folder). Instructions provided (via UCD intranet).

Education Index
475 core international English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and monographic series covering all areas of education from preschool to postgraduate, since 1983. Contains Full Text. Available from Wilson Omnifile: on the Advanced Search page, select Education (EDU) in the Subject Area drop-down menu. Further help on use

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
Air transportation, defense programs, parks, refuges, forests. Coverage: 1985 - current.

Electronics and Communications Abstracts
Electronics and Communications Abstracts indexes over 3000 journals and conferences for comprehensive coverage of articles on electronics and communications equipment engineering. Coverage from 1981 onwards.

Embase
A biomedical and pharmacological resource enabling searching of disease and drug related literature from a variety of high quality sources with full text article content where available. Coverage 1974 onwards.

Emerald Management Xtra
Large comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed management journals. 110 full text journals and reviews from the top 300 management journals.
Availability of full text: please note that there may be an embargo by the publisher on providing full text for very recent journal issues and older issues may also provide abstracts only.

Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
Provides full-text searchable access to Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors. Further help on use

Encyclopedia Britannica Online (Academic Edition)
A comprehensive all-in-one reference collection offering access to multiple resources from one location. In addition to the core database of over 100,000 authoritative articles, EB Online offers a range of research tools including World Data Analyst, World Atlas, Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus, Notable Quotations, Year in Review and live news feeds.
Article-level content includes engaging multimedia (video, audio clips etc), interactive table-of-contents, links to relevant external websites and relevant full-text journal articles. Further help on use

Encyclopedia of Archaeology
This major reference work encompasses all aspects of archaeology, including the nature and diversity of archaeology as a scientific discipline, the practice of archaeology, archaeology in the everyday world and the future of the discipline.

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Encyclopedia covers 30 different subject areas. Each long article includes a bibliography of key sources in the primary literature and further reading.

Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
The Encyclopedia of Biostatistics support the development and use of statistical methods for addressing the problems and critical issues that confront scientists, practitioners and policy makers engaged in the life and medical sciences. It has coverage of key topics including bioinformatics, clinical trials, computation, genetics, and Bayesian methods and applications and contains over 1300 articles, with more than 300 revised and updated to reflect current research and developments.

Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics aspires to be the most authoritative, comprehensive and international reference source in its field. It contains over 3000 articles on all aspects of language and linguistics and includes 200 language maps, with information on number of speakers and language family. There are approximately 700 biographical entries, including those of contemporary linguists.

Engineer-it
Database of products, suppliers and manufacturers catalogues for the engineering industry. Further help on use

Engineered Materials Abstracts
Ceramics, composites and polymers.Coverage 1986 onwards.

Engineering Research Database
Civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, and transportation. Coverage: 1966 - current.

Entomology Abstracts
Physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, ecology, behavior. Coverage: 1981 - current.

Environmental Engineering Abstracts
Air and water quality, environmental safety, energy production. Coverage: 1990 onwards.

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Environmental biotechnology, engineering, pollution. Coverage: 1967 - current.

Equis
Equine specific clinical information reference source, including images. Further help on use

ERIC
Education. Indexes journal articles, documents and reports. Timespan: 1966 onwards

ERIC International
Education. Comprising of British Education Index (BREI) covering 1975 to present and Australian Education Index (AUEI) covering 1977 to present. Further help on use

ESTC (English Short Title Catalogue)
The ESTC aims to "provide a comprehensive bibliography of the printed output of the hand-press era". It offers bibliographic details of over 460,000 items printed in a) Great Britain and it's colonies in any language and b) printed in the English language anywhere in the world. Coverage c1473-1800. Material includes early printed books, periodicals, pamphlets, advertisements and a variety of other ephemera. Further help on use

Note: Content includes the former Eighteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue. A substantial number of titles included in ESTC are now available in digital format via Early English Books Online (EEBO) and ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

Euclid Open Access Journals
Journals in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics.

European Business ASAP
Business studies. Includes articles on business and finance, acquisitions and mergers, international trade, new technologies and products. Timespan: 1983 onwards. Brief guide for business users available
Availability of full text: please note that there may be an embargo by the publisher on providing full text for very recent journal issues and older issues may also provide abstracts only.

European Sources Online (ESO)
European Sources Online (ESO) is an online database which provides information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions and other international organisations in Europe.. The issues of importance to European citizens and stakeholders. It includes access to research organisations, books, journal articles and newspapers with a European emphasis.

Factfinder
Business and social science material with emphasis on Irish sources. Includes newspaper and journal articles, company profiles and links to company web sites. Coverage: 1991 onwards. Further help on use

Faculty of 1000 Biology
An online research service that highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of over 1000 selected leading researchers. Published by Biomed Central.

Faculty of 1000 Medicine
An online literature evaluation and awareness service for that highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the any field of medicine, based on the recommendations of over 2000 international researchers and clinicians. Published by Biomed Central.

Fame
FAME is a database that contains information for companies in the UK and Ireland. FAME contains information on 3.4 million companies, 2.4 million of which are in a detailed format.

Felis
Feline specific clinical information reference source, including images. Further help on use

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs.

Film Index International
A major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters - Film Index International provides truly international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries going back over seventy years.

Food Science and Technology Abstracts Database
Food sciences, human nutrition, food technology. Timespan: 1969 onwards.

Forestry Compendium
A global compilation of knowledge on forestry for practical decision-making from CABI. Including information on trees, seed suppliers, pests and countries, and aids for species selection for planning trials.
Further help on use

Frantext
FRANTEXT database (formerly the Trésor de la Langue Française) consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. The FRANTEXT Database has 114.7 million words, 400,000 unique forms, in 1,880 works from 1750 onwards listed in the Bibliography. Further help on use

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Online collection of premier reference eBooks.

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General Business File International
Business studies. Includes management, economics and politics, company performance and industry trends. Access to newspaper and journal articles and trade publications. Timespan: 1980 onwards.
Availability of full text: please note that there may be an embargo by the publisher on providing full text for very recent journal issues and older issues may also provide abstracts only.

General Science Index
190 popular and professional science journals published in the United States and Great Britain, and the Science section of The New York Times, since 1984. Contains Full Text .Further login Information

Genetics Abstracts
Genetics, including immunogenetics, developmental, evolutionary, ecological, theoretical and behavioural genetics.
Timespan:  1982 onwards.

Geobase Database
Geology, geography, cartography, regional and community planning, ecology, oceanography, biomechanics and development studies. Timespan: 1994 onwards. Includes Geological Abstracts (paper ed. also available in the JJL from 1989-2004 at Abstracts & Indexes 550) and Geographical Abstracts (paper ed. also available from Library Newstead Store at 016.91 from 1989-2006).

GeoRef
GeoRef is the electronic version of the Bibliography and Index of Geology. This database provides comprehensive access to geoscience literature, covering such subjects as mineralogy, crystallography, sedimentology, and palaeontology. Bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals are included in the database as well as journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Geology of North America is covered from 1785 to the present, and geology of the world from 1933 to the present.

GeoScienceWorld
A premier resource for the geosciences, GeoScienceWorld offers peer-reviewed articles and other materials with linked reference lists from 30 journals in a broad range of geoscience areas. A primary strength of GSW is the ability to search full text in a linked collection, but GSW is also integrated with GeoRef, the premier abstracting and indexing database in the field.

Global Health
International public health database, includes epidemiology, tropical diseases, refugee and migrant health, disasters. Timespan: Material published since 1910. Further help on use

Global Market Information Database (GMID)
International statistical information and market analysis. Access information by country, company, consumer market/lifestyle etc.

Greenfile
Environmental studies. Indexes more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage for Bioscience, Conservation Biology, Journal of Ecology and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management.

Grove Art Online
Art encyclopaedia covering all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. Now part of Oxford Art Online portal.

Health and Safety Science Abstracts
Environmental health, occupational safety, pesticides, toxicology, emergency management, security, accidents. Coverage: 1981 - current.

HeinOnline
HeinOnline offers fully searchable, complete holdings of over 800 mostly US law journals and reviews, with PDF images of all the original print documents. Journal coverage spans four centuries of legal texts. In addition, HeinOnline's Legal Classics Library contains such seminal legal works as Blackstone's Commentaries (1803), Cardozo's Growth of Law (1924), and Story's first edition of Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833).
To access HeinOnline, click on "SUBSCRIBERS, PLEASE CLICK HERE TO ENTER".

High Technology Research Database with Aerospace
Aeronautics, computer & information technology, electronics, physics. Coverage: 1962 - current.

Highwire Press
HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science available. 1,369,808 free full-text articles and 3,571,795 total articles. There are 12 sites with free trial periods, and 34 completely free sites. 220 sites have free back issues, and 845 sites have pay per view. Coverage: 1844 onwards.

Hindawi
The Hindawi Publishing Corporation is one of the leading players in the the Open Access publishing movement. Primarily a publisher of mathematical journals, its list also includes titles in telecommunications, engineering and medicine. Access is available to its forty-three open access journals.

Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts covers approximately 2,100 periodicals published worldwide in history and the related humanities and social sciences, from 1450 to the present. Abstracts from conference proceedings and festschriften are also included.

Historische Bibliographie Online
Covers literature in the field of history with particular strength in German publications. Provides bibliographic information on recent books, periodical articles, and other publications. Includes: 'Jahrbuch der historischen Forschung'.Timespan: 1990- onwards.
Login and password required (Available on UCD Intranet. Login using your Connect username and password)

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers is a comprehensive collection of parliamentary papers in full text on British policy, covering Britain and its colonies from 1801 to the present. It is a primary source for historical records, and for multidisciplinary research. It includes a detailed subject index. Coverage: 1801-2004. Further help on use

Human Genome Abstracts
Gene cloning, gene therapy, genetic screening. Coverage: 1982 - 1995.

Human Population & Natural Resource Management
Human population, control, and effect on natural resource management. Coverage: 1995 - current.

Humanities Index
500 English-language periodicals in the areas of archaeology, classical studies, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature, and religion, since 1984. Further help on use

ICPSR Datasets
Established in 1962, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. On campus only

To access the ICPSR database, click on the above link from a campus-based PC to set up a MyData account. First time users must create a MyData Account; the next time you access the site you must enter as a Returning User using your email address and password.

IDOX (UK Planning Exchange)
Urban and rural regeneration, planning, environment, transport, housing, local development, leisure and recreation. Provides up to date information on current practice and policy. Online document ordering is unavailable to UCD staff and students. Contact Richview Library with document queries. Further help on use

IEL (via IEEE Xplore)
The IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) provides a single source of almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature. Access is given to journals, conference proceedings and standards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEEE). Timespan: 1988 onwards.

ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety (4th ed.)
Covers all aspects of occupational health and safety including occuptional diseases, prevention, health promotional activities;
legal, ethical and social policy; hazards, accidents and safety management; chemicals in industry, toxicological properties and more.

IMechE
The IMechE Journals Collection contains eighteen journals, including the prestigious Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, parts A-P; Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design; as well as the IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996. The Collection brings together for the first time all the online journal content published by Professional Engineering Publishing.

IMF Statistical Databases
Access to the following International Monetary Fund titles: 'International Financial Statistics'; 'Direction of Trade Statistics'; Balance of Payments Statistics'.

Immunology Abstracts
Immunology. Timespan: 1982 onwards. Print version available in Veterinary Library covers 1976 onwards.

Index to Legal Periodicals
Available via Nexis Butterworths, this database provides abstracts from international law journals and reviews, and has some Irish content. Further help on use
Print version in James Joyce Library at Reference 016.34 covers 1981-1994.

Index to Theses
Indexes theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland.  Abstracts of PhD theses are included from 1970 onwards.  Timespan:  theses accepted since 1716.  Further help on use

Print version available in James Joyce Library at General Reference 016.013942 covers 1950 onwards.
The Irish Theses Database forms a subset of Index to Theses. Comprising exclusively Irish research material, the database offers details of theses submitted to universities throughout the island of Ireland. Note: Coverage varies with each university.

Information Research Watch International
This database reports new, ongoing and completed research in information and library science and related fields from around the world.

Information Technology Case Studies
Decision support systems, e-commerce, knowledge management. Coverage: 1999 - current.

Informaworld (Taylor & Francis Journals)
Multidisciplinary resource. Coverage includes the biosciences, business, environmental sciences, humanities, pure and applied science and technology, social science, urban planning, psychology and law. Access to the full text of over 1200 journals published by Taylor & Francis. Timespan: 1997-

Infotrac (Searchbank)
Business studies. Includes the following databases: General Business File International; European Business ASAP.Coverage from 1980 onwards.

INIS Database
The INIS Database is maintained by the International Nuclear Information System (INIS), which is the leading information source for scientific and technical literature published worldwide on the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology. The INIS Database is a bibliographic database which currently contains 3 million references with English abstracts from 1970 to the present. It also contains a collection of over 850,000 full-text documents, including technical reports, conference proceedings and preprints. Updated weekly.

Institute of Physics (IoP) electronic journals
Access to the fulltext of the journals published by the IoP, with some titles back to 1874.

INSPEC
Compiled and maintained by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Corresponds to Science abstracts Series A&B, Physics abstracts, Electrical & electronic abstracts, Computer and control abstracts, and Section D of the Inspec database. Timespan 1898 onwards.

Intermid
Intermid is the electronic archive of peer-reviewed articles from the British Journal of Midwifery. The site contains all articles published in the journal since 1996 and includes clinical reviews, professional articles and in-depth research on all aspects of midwifery training and practice.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
This database covers social sciences and related subjects, with particular emphasis on anthropology, economics, politics, and sociology. Its coverage dates back to 1951, and includes references to journal articles, books, reviews, and selected chapters. Its coverage is international with 25% of its material in languages other than English. Over 2,700 journals are indexed and more than 50% of current articles provide abstracts. Some full text articles are also available.

International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range 450 to 1500, and includes articles (from both journals and miscellanies, e.g. Festschriften), review articles, scholarly notes and similar literature. The geographical range comprises the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Further help on use

Internurse
Internurse is the electronic archive of peer-reviewed nursing articles. Launched in 1998, it draws together articles from thirteen specialist journals published by MA Healthcare, which include the generalist clinical journal, British Journal of Nursing, and the Journal of Wound Care.

Irish CIS (Construction Information Service)
Building, engineering, design and construction. Includes relevant British Standards, building regulations and legislative information and the publications of major construction research organisations (e.g. BRE, CIRIA, CIBSE). Irish and UK emphasis. Part of the Royal Institute of British Architects/Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Technical Indexes series. Further help on use

Irish Health & Safety Information Service (IHSIS)
IHSIS is a reference source of Occupational Health and Safety documentation, including safety training, first aid, electrical safety, manual handling and dangerous substances. Further help on use

Irish History Online
IHO is a bibliography of Irish history, created by Writings on Irish History online in association with the Royal Historical Society. The database currently gives access to the contents of the Writings on Irish History for 1936 to 2002 in addition to Irish material from the Royal Historical Society bibliography. As with the RHS Bibliography no subscription is needed to use this bibliography. Further help on use

Irish Newspapers Archives
View the digitizes images of over six million national and regional newspaper pages. Content includes the Irish Independent (1908 to 2001), the Sunday Independent (1935 to 2002), the Freeman's Journal (1763 - 1924) and The Nation (1842 - 1865).

Note: The INA is a major work in progress. Consequently, coverage is not always complete and gaps do occur.

Irish Statute Book
Full text of the Acts of the Oireachtas 1922-2005, Statutory Instruments 1922-2003 and Chronological Tables of the Statutes 1922-2004. Further help on use

Irish Times
View today's Irish Times (including Breaking News). Also includes access to past 12 month content.

ISI Proceedings (now part of Web of Science )

Joanna Briggs Institute
Provides information on evidence-based health care in nursing & midwifery, including Systematic Reviews and Best Practice Information Sheets. Research is conducted through an international research and development unit with collaborating centres around the world. Access to Best Practice Information Sheets, Technical Reports, Executive Summaries and Review Protocols is freely available. Access to Systematic Reviews is available through UCD by conducting an article search through Blackwell-Synergy..

Journal Citation Reports (via Web of Knowledge)
Science, social sciences. Journal evaluation and citation analysis including highest impact journals and most frequently used journals.

Journals@Ovid (including the LWW Legacy Archive)
Includes 440+ titles in Clinical Medicine, Behavioral & Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Nursing, Physical Science & Engineering: browse our subscriptions. Timespan: 1860 onwards.

JSTOR
Multidisciplinary archive of over 900 major scholarly journals. The heaviest emphasis is on arts and social sciences titles, but the collection also includes business, general science, and health and biological sciences titles. The scanned images replicate journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Browse the lists of journals available.

JSTOR now includes The Ireland Collection, an interdisciplinary resource of materials from and about Ireland. Complementing JSTOR's existing collections, the Ireland Collection adds resources across the arts, humanities, and sciences in disciplines such as music, art, history, literature, archaeology, mathematics, and biology. Materials span from the 1780s to the present.

Justcite
JustCite is a service that is a single entry point to a range of publishers and includes extensive links to full-text material on leading online services, including BAILII, Justis, LexisNexis, WestLaw and more.

Click on "continue" button in the Sign-In Panel.

Justis
A legal database providing authoritative coverage of UK and Irish primary case law and specialist case law, UK statute law, and easily- searchable European case law and legislation. Key features include full-text English Law Reports from 1865 and Irish Reports from 1919, and full-text Acts of Parliament for England, Wales and Scotland dating back to the Magna Carta (1235).

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Keesing's Record of World Events
Keesing's Record of World Events is a monthly service which evaluates, authenticates and condenses daily news reports collected worldwide. Our online access covers the last 5 years of this archive.

LactMed: Drugs and Lactation Database
From the United States National Library of Medicine, a peer- reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

Land, Life and Leisure
Agriculture, environment, horse industry, forestry, rural planning, recreation and tourism. Timespan: 1990 onwards. Click on "Login via Direct Access " on the homepage.

Lapis
Clinical rabbit information reference source, including images aimed at veterinarians. Further help on use

LNCS Online
Lecture notes in computer science reports the latest results from all areas of computer science and information technology research, development and education. Timespan: 1973 onwards.

Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts
Leisure, recreation, sport, hospitality, tourism and culture.
Timespan: Material published since 1900. Further help on use

Print version of LRT Abstracts available in James Joyce Library at Reference 016.79 LEI covers 1981-1997, and Store 016.79 LEI covers 1998-2004.

LexisNexis Butterworths
LexisNexis Butterworths replaces LexisNexis Professional and the new interface allows access to the most comprehensive and authoritative online legal information – all from a single source. LexisNexis Butterworths is the UK’s leading provider of legislation, commentary and analysis. Law coverage includes journal articles and case law (including Irish Digests, approved judgments, reported and unreported cases).

Lexis Nexis (News and Business)
Nexis UK replaces LexisNexis Professional and is the single most powerful global news and business information service with over 20,000 sources of authoritative news, company, financial and market research data.

Library Literature & Information Science
297 key journals (in English and other languages) in Library and Information Science on current library trends and developments, since 1984. With Full Text.Further help on use

Libros editados en España
Database of the Agencia Espanola del ISBN, Madrid. Offers bibliographic details of books published in Spain from 1973 to present. Includes other material such as music scores, maps pamphlets, e-materials etc. . Records indicate whether a title is in print or not. Readers can limit searches to items which are in print, out-of-print or both. Further help on use

Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts (LLBA)
Linguistics, language behaviour, communication and learning disabilities. Timespan: 1973 onwards. Print index in James Joyce Library at Reference 016.4/LLB covers 1973 onwards.

LISAnet (Library and Information Science Abstracts)
Library studies, information science and information management. Timespan: 1969 onwards.

LISTA (Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts)
Librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceeeding. Timespan: 1966 onwards.

Literature On Line (LION)
Language and literature. English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and criticisms. Full text of over 300,000 works.

Lyell Collection
The Lyell Collection is a digital library created by the Geological Society of London. It represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth Science literature available, with full-text archives back to 1845. The Collection consists of the full content of the Society's journals, Special Publications and key book series.

The Making of Modern Law
This resource provides full-text access to over 22,000 American and British legal treatises from 1800 to 1926. The materials appear in page-image (pdf) format and the database offers full-text search capabilities. It covers nearly every aspect of law, encompassing a range of analytical, theoretical, and practical literature. It can be browsed by title and author and the tables of contents can be reviewed for individual treatises.

Marine Biotechnology Abstracts (ASFA)
Molecular biotechnology, cell/tissue culture. Coverage: 1989 - current.

Marketline (formerly Datamonitor)
A business information database containing company, industry and country profiles.  Data available includes key corporate information; SWOT analysis; business history; and company, industry and country rankings.  Information can also be searched by keyword, and the database also contains an updated "news and comment" section.

Materials Business File
Alloy and material developments, industry news .

Maternity and Infant Care
MIC holds the content of MIDIRS and contains over 120,000 references with abstracts to journal articles from over 550 international English language journals, books, and grey literature relating to the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labor, birth, postnatal care, and neonatal care and the first year of an infant's life. Database coverage is from 1971 and approximately 1000 records are added to the database per month.

MathSciNet
MathSciNet is a comprehensive database providing access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature since 1940. Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are covered.

MD Consult (Core Collection)
An online medical information service intended to meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals. MD Consult integrates peer-reviewed resources from over 50 publishers, medical societies, and government agencies. Further help on use

Mechanical and Transportation Engineering Abstracts
Transportation systems engineering for industrial and management purposes. Timespan: 1966 onwards.

Mechanical Engineering Abstracts
Mechanical engineering, engineering management, and production engineering. Timespan: 1981 onwards.

MEDLINE
Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and healthcare. Database of the National Library of Medicine, U.S.A. Timespan: varies according to version of MEDLINE used: Medline via Pubmed (1950 onwards), MEDLINE via CSA (1997 onwards), MEDLINE via Ovid (1950 onwards).
CSA and Ovid versions include easy links to full text articles available at UCD.

METADEX
Metals and alloys; their properties, manufacturing applications and development. Timespan: the database is the equivalent of Metal Abstracts and Alloys Index. Timespan: 1966 onwards.

Microbiology Abstracts A: Industrial and applied microbiology
Microbiological research in the agricultural, food and beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Timespan: 1982 onwards.

Microbiology Abstracts B: Bacteriology
Covers a wide range of subjects from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals. Provides access to clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry and genetics. Timespan: 1982 onwards.

Microbiology Abstracts C: Algology, mycology and protozoology
Covers the literature of algae, fungi, protozoa and lichens. Coverage includes reproduction, growth, life cycles, biochemistry, genetics and infection and immunity in man animals and plants. Timespan: 1982 onwards.

Mintel
Publishes global market intelligence reports covering market sectors including consumer goods, the clothing, finance and food retail industries and the technology sector. Brief guide for business users available.

MLA International Bibliography Database
Modern language, literature, linguistics, folklore and film studies. Timespan: 1983 onwards. via LION. Further help on use

MSDS chemical data sheets
Material Safety Data Sheets provide guidance on the health and safety of manufacture, storage, use and disposal of hazardous and toxic chemicals, with advice on first aid and coping with spillages.

Music Index Online
A subject- author guide to music periodical literature.Timespan: 1976-present. Further help on use

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Criminal and juvenile justice, drug control, law enforcement. Coverage: 1975 - current.

Nature Journals Online
Includes Nature, Nature Research, Nature Reviews, news@nature.com and Nature Clinical Practice titles as well as respected international academic and society journals.

NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals.

NetLibrary
A collection of 84 purchased titles in Philosophy, Psychology and Politics. 3,400+ out of copyright titles in all subjects are also available.

Neurosciences Abstracts
Neurobiology, motor and sensory systems, memory, Alzheimer's disease. Coverage: 1982 - current.

Newspapers Online
Check out our Newspapers web page for an overview of the Library's key electronic resources in this area.

Nexis UK
Nexis UK replaces LexisNexis Professional and is the single most powerful global news and business information service with over 20,000 sources of authoritative news, company, financial and market research data.

Northern Ireland: a divided community 1921 - 1972
This resource offers digital, full-text searching of facsimile images of the complete records of the Stormont Cabinet Papers from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Further help on use

Nucleic Acids Abstracts
Gene manipulation, DNA, transfer RNA. Coverage: 1982 - current.

Ocean Technology,Policy and Non-Living Resources (ASFA2)
Oceanography, limnology, coastal structures. Coverage: 1971 - current.

Oceanic Abstracts
Oceanography, marine and brackish-water environment. Timespan: 1981 onwards.

Occupational Health & Safety Information Service (OHSIS)
OHSIS is a reference source of Occupational Health and Safety documentation, including safety training, first aid, electrical safety, manual handling and dangerous substances. Also available: OHSIS Document Alert

Further help on use

OECD: see Source OECD

Oncogenes and Growth Factors Abstracts
Cancerous cell growth, serine. Coverage: 1989 - current.

Open Access Text Archive
Part of the Internet Archive, a non-profit body that was founded to build an Internet library with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Optics Infobase
Provides fulltext access to the journals of the Optical Society of America. Timespan: 1917 onwards.

Ordnance Survey Ireland Maps
1st & 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey Maps (dates vary between 1833 and 1913). This series, for the Republic of Ireland, can be viewed and downloaded via the Web. Login and password required (Available on UCD Intranet. Login using your Connect username and password)

OSH UPDATE
OSH UPDATE contains an ever-growing collection of (currently) 19 databases from worldwide authoritative sources. This aggregation of databases currently contains well over 800,000 relevant references with abstracts or keywords and will keep you and your colleagues wherever you are in the world alerted to hot topics such as the health risks of nanotechnology, corporate killing and corporate social responsibility, bioterrorism, management of road risks, preparedness and business continuity as well as basic health, safety, hygiene and working environment information.
OSH UPDATE also includes specific OSH information for those working in Ireland - legislation, standards and associated guidance.

OVID Gateway
The Ovid Gateway service provides access to web-based scientific and medical electronic journals and biomedical databases.
Services currently include: Books@Ovid, Journals@Ovid Full Text, AGRIS, Food Science and Technology Abstracts International, Bibliography of the social sciences, Inspec, Ovid Medline, The Philosopher’s, Index Social Work abstracts, NASW Clinical register, SPORTDiscus.

Oxford Art Online
Art gateway covering all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. Provides a single access point for Oxford art reference publications: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Authoritative biographical resource offering access to over 50,000 biographies of distinguished persons from all walks of life who have “shaped the lives of the British Isles and beyond”. Coverage: from earliest time to 2002. Includes deceased persons only. Powerful advanced search capabilities. Print version available in James Joyce Library at GR920.042/DIC.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
Widely acknowledged as the world's most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English, the OED Online offers unprecedented access to the meaning, history and pronunication of over 600,000 words. Update quarterly with approx. 1,800 new and revised word entries.

Oxford Journals Online
Provides fulltext access to Oxford University Press titles. Timespan: 1996-.

Oxford Reference Online - Premium Collection
Offers access to over 150 of Oxford University Press' authoritative reference titles. Includes an extensive range of language and subject dictionaries in addition to some General Reference titles. Also includes key titles from the "Oxford Companion" Series which provide informative subject overviews. View the complete list of titles in the Premium collection.

PADDI (Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland)
Architecture, town planning, urban design. Material published from c.1865 to the present. Note: most publications date from the mid 20th century onwards. Freely available on Web to all users.

Patrologia Latina Database
The complete Patrologia Latina. Comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200AD to Pope Innocent III, in 1216. Paper version entitled Patrologiae cursus completus. Series latina in James Joyce Library at 281.08. Further help on use

Pedro
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not. Timespan: 1929 onwards. Further help on use

Philosopher's Index
Philosophy, logic, metaphysics, political and social philosophy, philosophy of education and religion. Timespan: 1940 onwards. Paper version in James Joyce Library at Reference 016.1.

Physical Education Index
Physical fitness, health, sports medicine. Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. Timespan: 1970 onwards.

Primal Pictures
Primal Pictures is a digital resource in anatomy. It provides a complete 3D model of human anatomy which is based on real medical scan and dissection data. The data has been reconstructed using sophisticated computer graphics and imaging techniques.

Pollution Abstracts
Air pollution, marine pollution, waste management. Coverage: 1981 - current.

Product Selector Plus
CD-ROM available at the Architecture Library, Richview. Architecture and Engineering. Directory of UK building and civil engineering products and suppliers. The indexes are searchable by company, product and trade name. Published by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Project Euclid Prime Collection
Project Euclid is a non-profit initiative set up with the goal of advancing scholarly communication in the discipline of mathematics. The Euclid Prime Collection is a growing aggregation of peer-reviewed journals in mathematics and statistics.

Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

Project MUSE
Project Muse provides fulltext access to over 300 scholarly journals, published by more than 60 publishers, in the humanities, arts and social sciences .

PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive
Coverage: 1893-2004.

ProQuest
Business studies. Covers accounting, advertising, finance, economics, human resources, management and marketing. Databases included: ABI-Inform, Accounting & Tax; Banking Information Source. Timespan: 1970 onwards. Interdisciplinary content includes These and Dissertations Database and Irish Times Digital Archive.
Availability of full text: please note that there may be an embargo by the publisher on providing full text for very recent journal issues and older issues may also provide abstracts only.

Proquest Dissertation and Theses (PQDT)
Providing citations to over 2.4 million doctoral and master theses. PQDT is the central, authoritative resource for tracing North American theses. Cover works from 99% of US academic institutions in addition to thousands of international titles. Coverage: 1637 to present. Includes detailed abstracts for doctoral theses from 1980 and for masters from 1988 onwards.

The database includes over one million full text theses which are available for download in PDF format via the ProQuest theses ordering service. Many entries include a 24 page full-text "preview" for individuals wishing to purchase full content via the ProQuest theses ordering service.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Contains the Irish Times Digital Archive - a fully searchable archive which includes every page published since the newspapers foundation in 1859. Coverage: 1859 onwards.

Further help on use

Protozoological Abstracts
Includes coverage of all parasitic protozoa, many endemic to the tropics, affecting man and animals. Timespan: Database: last 10 years. Print index in James Joyce Library at Abstracts and Indexes 630 covers 1977 onwards. Further help on use

PsycArticles
Provides full text access to 53 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. Timespan: 1894 onwards.

PsycBooks
PsycBOOKS is the American Psychological Association (APA) database of e-books and book chapters in psychology. Updated monthly, it provides access to over 1300 book titles, including 100 out-of-print books, published by APA, between 1950-2002. It also provides access to “classic books” from other publishers, and the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

PsycInfo
Psychology and related subjects. Database of the American Psychological Association. Timespan:  1806 onwards.

Pubmed
Pubmed is a service from the National Library of Medicine and offers bibliographic, abstract and full text (when available) content in over 16million  life and health sciences journals.  Coverage includes Medline, Old Medline (1950-65) and other life sciences and biomedical journals.

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
400 periodicals covering current events, business, science, arts and entertainment, health and medicine, sports and fitness, and more. since 1983. Contains Full Text. Further help on use

Reference works online
Check our separate web page listing many full text reference works.

Reproductive Health Library
The RHL from the World Health Organisation (WHO) contains over 300 articles about evidence-based practices in reproductive health. Each topic area contains a summary of the evidence, the implications for clinical practice of this evidence and at least one Cochrane systematic review on this topic. The RHL also contains videos demonstrating techniques and articles on the science of evaluating healthcare.

Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI)
Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI) is an urban design Web site, with an emphasis on good practice in urban design. Further help on use

RIAI Good Practice Guide
The purpose of the RIAI Good Practice Guide is to assist architects in the management of their practices. It incorporates the elements of a quality management system. The guide follows similar developments in other professions and many Irish client bodies, and is the third edition of the Good Practice Guide which was previously available as a print guide held in Richview Library. Login and password required (Available on UCD Intranet. Login using your Connect username and password)

Risk Abstracts
Technological risks, biological risks, natural hazards. Coverage: 1990 - current.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
REP Online contains more than 2000 articles, from Aristotle to Nominalism and from Personal Identity to Zeno of Elea.

Royal Historical Society Bibliography
This database consolidates over 50 existing bibliographies (including the Annual Bibliographies for 1975-2000) creating a database of approximately 300,000 records detailing most of the books and articles on British and Irish history published between 1901 and 2000, and many from before then. Does not include Irish local history journals. Further help on use

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Library Catalogue
Archictecture, interior design, town planning, urban design. Includes access to APId (Architectural Periodicals Index on disc).

Royal Society of Chemistry eBook Collection
The RSC eBook Collection contains over 700 books published between 1968 and 2008. The Collection is fully searchable and indexed to chapter level, with all documents provided as pdfs. The subject areas cover all branches of chemistry as well as related issues on biomedicine, environmental science, food science and other.

Royal Society of Chemistry Publications Online
Provides fulltext access to the journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Timespan: 1841-. to RSC Journals Archive (1841-2004).

Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online provides electronic books in computer science, information technology, business, and related fields from O'Reilly, Pearson, and other IT and business publishers. Allows you to download whole chapters for printing and viewing offline.

Sage Journals Online
Sage journals online includes over 400 journals in the fields of business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine. Access: 1999 onwards.

Science Citation Index (via Web of Science)
Sciences, including agriculture, veterinary medicine, medicine, astronomy, pharmacology, computer science, zoology etc. Index to more than 5,300 major journals. Timespan: 1945 onwards. A range of online tutorials for various aspects of Web of Science is available.

Science Direct
Social science, science, technology and medicine - including veterinary medicine. Full text access for UCD starts from 1995.

SciFinder Scholar (via UCD intranet)
This resource gives access to the electronic version of Chemical Abstracts.
In order to use this product software needs to be installed. This software can only be installed and used while on-campus.
N.B. The software is not available from web OPACs in the Library.

Scopus
Scopus is a major scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature abstract and citation database covering 15,000 peer-reviewed journals, including open access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications and book series. Scopus also covers 386 million quality web sources, including 22 million patents.

SIAM Journals Online
From the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SIAM Journals Online includes the full text to all articles in the 13 SIAM journals from 1997 to the present.

Social Science Index
More than 518 English-language periodicals in the areas of anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies, since 1983.

Further help on use

Social Sciences Citation Index (via Web of Science)
Social sciences. Includes business studies, industrial relations, information science, politics, psychology, social policy, sociology, urban studies, women's studies, etc. Indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the Social Sciences. Timespan: 1945 onwards. Print version in James Joyce Library at Reference 016.3/SOC covers 1966 onwards. A range of online tutorials for various aspects of Web of Science is available.

Further help on use

Social Services Abstracts
Social work, human services, social welfare, social policy. Coverage: 1979 - current.

Social Theory
Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization.

Sociological Abstracts
Sociology. Includes anthropology, criminology, education, environmental studies, gender studies, political theory, etc. Timespan: 1963 onwards.

Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
Solid state milieux, superconductors, semiconductors. Timespan: 1981 - .

SourceOECD
A major statistical portal offering the OECD’s publications catalogue online. Comprises 20 thematic book collections, 24 periodicals, 3 reference titles, 24 OECD statistical databases and 10 IEA statistical databases – all in full text. Timespan: 1983 onwards.
See also OECD.stat which provides a cross search facility for OECD databases.

Specify-it
A building product database of manufacturer's catalogues. Searchable by product name, trade name or company name. Further help on use

SPIE Digital Library
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.

Sport Discus
An international database containing abstracts and bibliographical details of journal articles, reports, theses and books. Areas covered include trainin and coahcing; exercise; physiology; biomechanics and other sport and fitness related subjects, including sports law and sport tourism.Coverage : 1830 to date.

Springer eBook Collection : Mathematics and Statistics
Access to approximately 1100 of Springer's ebook titles in the field of mathematics and statistics. Includes English language titles with copyright years between 2005 - 2008.

Note: Click on Content type books or use the search box.  Available full texts to UCD are identified with a green square next to title.

SpringerLink
The premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics. Now also contains all former Kluwer Academic journals but does NOT contain titles from Brill Academic Publisher). Timespan: 1997 -

Sustainability Science Abstracts
Sustainable development, conservation, human impact, land use, resource management, biodiversity. Coverage: 2003 - current.

SwetsWise
All subjects. Contents pages of thousands of journals, with access to the full text of over 800 journals. Search for journal articles by author, subject, title or publisher. Timespan: varies according to journal.
To login click on 'IP authentication' at the top right of the home page.
Availability of full text: please note that there may be an embargo by the publisher on providing full text for very recent journal issues and older issues may also provide abstracts only.

Taylor & Francis eBook Collection: Geography and Planning
Provides access to 50 geography and planning ebook titles on the Taylor & Francis platform.

Taylor & Francis Journals (via Informaworld)
Multidisciplinary resource. Coverage includes the biosciences, business, environmental sciences, humanities, pure and applied science and technology, social science, urban planning, psychology and law. Access to the full text of over 1200 journals published by Taylor & Francis. Timespan: 1997-

Teacher Reference Center (TRC)
TRC indexes of over 260 titles from teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and provides coverage on education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics.

Technology Research Database
Materials, engineering, aerospace, high-technology. Coverage: 1962 - current.

Telephone Directories
Ireland - Eircom phonebook business and residential directory - including Golden Pages.
UK - BT Directory Enquiries personal and business directory.

Theses Online
Check our separate web page listing sources of online texts of theses.

Times Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement is a weekly literary review published in London by News International. NB- access to Archive from 1994-Present only - not to the Centenary Archive.

Toxicology Abstracts
Toxicology Abstracts covers issues from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues. It surveys the literature for toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and myriad other substances, publishing information concerning the in vivo effects of toxic substances. Toxicity testing methodology and analytical procedures for toxic substances are also covered. Timespan 1981 onwards.

TOXLINE
Toxicology, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, antidotes. Coverage: 1996 - current.

Transition report (EBRD)
Reports on developments in central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and analysis of the transition to market economies and macroeconomic performance.

TRIS
Transportation bibliography. Covers material from the 1960s to present. In all some 400,000 bibliographic records with abstracts (yearly addition 20,000), available without cost or registration. By the (US) Transportation Research Board, the (US) National Research Council, (US) National Academies, and the (US) Bureau of Transportation Statistics, (US) Department of Transportation. Inevitably there is a US bias, but the sheer size makes this service an important transportation literature tool.

The UK and Ireland RISM Music Manuscripts Database
This database provides details of music manuscripts dating from between 1600 and 1800 preserved in national, public, and academic libraries in the U.K., and in the country's record offices and other public archives. It also includes details of music manuscripts held by some Dublin libraries.

Ulrichsweb
Provides bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types - academic and scholarly journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters and more. Worldwide coverage. Timespan: 1932

URBADISC
This CD-ROM is available at the Architecture Library, Richview. Town and urban planning. Timespan: 1980 onwards.

VetMed Resource
Includes the Veterinary Science Database, a subset of the CAB Abstracts Database that covers all aspects of veterinary medicine. Also contains Review Articles, the Drugs Database, and the Animal Health & Production Compendium (AHPC).

VLB Datenbank
German books in print. Previously available as VLB aktuell. A free
service from buchhandel.de. Lists over 1 million german books and
non-book material in print.

Violence & Abuse Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Virology and Aids Abstracts
Virology in humans, animals and plants. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Timespan: 1982 onwards.

WARC
World Advertising Resource Centre. Leading source of information relating to global marketing, media, advertising and consumer research. The database provides access to periodical articles, case studies, statistics and reports.

Water Resources Abstracts (WRA)
Water related topics including characteristics, conservation, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources, geography. Timespan: 1967 onwards.

Web of Knowledge
Web of Knowledge from ISI provides access to several products including: Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators and ISI HighlyCited.com. A range of online tutorials for various aspects of Web of Science is available.

Web of Science (via Web of Knowledge)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Science Citation Index. Timespan: 1945 onwards. Also includes Conference Proceedings (formerly ISI Proceedings), available in two editions: Science (currently Science and Technology) and Social Science and Humanities. Timespan: 1990 onwards. A range of online tutorials for various aspects of Web of Science is available.

WELDASEARCH
Weldasearch is a comprehensive database containing abstracts to journal articles, research reports, books, standards, patents, theses and special publications in the areas of joining metals, plastics and ceramics, metal and ceramic spraying, thermal cutting, brazing, soldering and related topics. Timespan: 1967 onwards.

Westlaw
Law of the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and other jurisdictions. Includes journal articles, case law and legislation. Includes CELEX database of EU legislation and case law. Further help on use

Westlaw IE
Irish legal materials database; contains Irish reported and unreported case law, consolidated/annotated legislation, and legal journals. Also offers a current awareness service providing updates on recent developments in Irish law.

Wiley Interscience
Includes the Current Protocols series, full text journals (timespan: 1799 onwards) and now incorporates the Blackwell journal collection.

Wilson Business Index
527 key international English-language business periodicals including Business Week, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times including product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, reports of associations, societies and conferences, since 1982. Available from Wilson Omnifile: on the Advanced Search page, select Business in the Subject Area drop-down menu.

Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
A multidisciplinary database that provides index references and abstracts for over 4,000 periodicals, as well as access to full text from over 2,100 titles, including Art Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus and Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text.

Women Writers Online
The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project that aims to make texts by pre-Victorian (1400-1850) women writers accessible to a wide audience of scholars, students and general readers. All of these texts can be browsed, searched, and analysed using tools which provide access to the full XML encoding.

World Bank Publications Online
The World Bank e-Library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 4,500 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,800 World Bank publications and over 2,700 Policy Research Working Papers.

World Development Indicators Online (WDI Online)
World Development Indicators Online, published by the World Bank, is a comprehensive database of development information covering more than 575 indicators, 225 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection includes data on population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators from 1960 onwards.

World eBook Library and Fair
A consortia book collection totalling 330,000 titles. PLEASE NOTE: there is a standard personal charge of $8.95 pa to use this ser