Focus on: Oxford Music Online (including Grove Music)

Oxford Music Online is a gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online is Grove Music Online. For more in-depth information about the editorial changes behind the Grove relaunch, please visit the Grove Music Online page.
Oxford Music Online also features the Encyclopedia of Popular Music — online for the first time by popular demand. The most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, the Encyclopedia is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present. It is exhaustive, meticulous and authoritative. The database also contains The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music . Other features include Music Timelines, Topical Guides and Research Resources.
Check out Oxford Music Online under 'Electronic resources' on the Library webpage, or click here.

Irish Times Digital Archive now available

The Irish Times Digital archive is now available to UCC staff and students thanks to UCC Library's participation in the IReL consortium. It is a fully searchable exact reproduction of all editions published by the Irish Times from 1859 onwards. Editions are added seven days after publication date. The database is available through Proquest. Click here (and scroll down) for access (or through 'Electronic Resources' on the Library website). Off campus access is also available using 'Your Library Record'.

Trial: American Newspapers through Proquest

American Newspaper content is now available through Proquest for a trial periosd :Wall street journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Sentinel. Use the Proquest Platform to search content from these newspapers. Coverage dates back to the 1850s for many of the publications. Trial access to this database will expire on 23rd December 2008. See here.

Historical Newspapers: The Irish Times Proquest Trial

The Irish Times (1859-2007) is now available through ProQuest. Select this title from the drop-down database menu. Trial access to this database will expire on 23rd December 2008. See here. Note that we still have access to the Irish Times Digital Archive as usual.

'Introduction to ARTstor' session in the Library

There will be an introdcution to ARTstor session on Monday 1st December from 1-2pm. The session will be held in the Research Skills Teaching Room in Q-1 (basement) of the Library, and all are welcome. ARTstor is a digital library with approx. 1 million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Image Searching on the Web

Would you like to learn how to use the Internet to find copyright cleared images for your work, quickly and efficiently? INTUTE and TASI have produced a free online interactive tutorial on image searching on the web. The tutorial looks at the pros and cons of using search engines to find images and the financial and legal implications of using them. Key online sites and collections are also highlighted. The tutorial is part of a much larger collection of online tutorials (the 'virtual traning suite') which is available on the INTUTE site.

Jazz collection

With the jazz weekend coming up, it's a good time to check out what the Library holds by way of jazz-related books, journals etc. Click here for a look.