British Periodicals Trial

This database provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. It traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On trial in UCC until 25th October. Access here or through the database trials page.

New Trial: Periodicals Archive Online

Periodicals Archive Online (from ProQuest), previously known as PCI Full Text, is an archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It provides researchers with access to more than 200 years of scholarship, spread across a wide variety of subject areas. It is on trial in UCC until October 31st. Access it here or from the trials page on the library website.

Poets on Screen

An interesting feature on the LION database, The Poets On Screen Library contains 896 clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work. You will need to have RealPlayer or Windows Media Player installed on your PC to view these clips. Poets reading their own work include Paul Muldoon, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Margaret Atwood, Richard Wilbur, Roger McGough and many more. The resource features hundreds of poets whose work is read by others e.g. Yeats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Tennyson, Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Hopkins, Donne, Heaney, Hardy, Blake. Lion is listed on the Library's A-Z of databases

Blu-ray in the Library

UCC Library has started to acquire Blu-ray discs for the collection. The first movies available in the Library in this format are:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Departed
There Will be Blood
For now, they are for library use only, and can be viewed on the 4 Blu-ray players in the Multimedia area on Q+3.
What is Blu-ray? Click here.