General Reference
See also 
Digital Books and
Free
Downloadable Audio Books
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Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online - Adult Edition |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online is one of
the most authoritative sources of information available and includes the
complete encyclopedia. It is presented online in three editions, targeting
different age groups. You can connect to Britannica from anywhere using
your library card. Type 09P and the numbers after CEP on your library card
e.g. 09P12345678
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Age Group 18 and Over |
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Britannica Student: Age Group 12 to 18. Type 09P and
the numbers after CEP on your library card e.g. 09P12345678 |
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Britannica
Online - Junior Edition |
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Britannica Junior: Age Group 5 to 11. Type 09P and
the numbers after CEP on your library card e.g. 09P12345678 |
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Ask A Librarian |
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Ask A Librarian: Get free expert advice, whatever the
problem. |
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Bartleby.com |
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Bartleby.com is one of the major Internet
publishers of literature, reference, verse, quotations and non-fiction works. |
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Call Costs |
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Callcosts.ie is an interactive website that has been developed
by the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) to help consumers
to compare the cost of personal/non-business mobile, home phone and broadband
price plans. |
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Great Web Sites for Kids |
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Great Web Sites for Kids is a database of web sites for
children selected and recommended by librarians in the US. |
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ibiblio |
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ibiblio is a digital library and archive project
comprising a ‘collection of collections,’ hosting a diverse
range of publicly available information and source software, including
software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural
studies. |
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LexisNexis |
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LexisNexis is a searchable archive of content from newspapers,
magazines, legal documents and other printed sources designed specifically
for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government,
law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. Connect
on-site from library. |
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Peak Directory |
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Peak Directory is an online resource to aid in searching
the internet |
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Refdesk |
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Refdesk aims to index, review, and publish quality,
credible information-based Web sites and to assist readers in navigating
and extracting needed data from these sites. Refdesk is free and family-friendly. |
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IPL2 - The Internet Public Library |
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IPL2 - The Internet Public Library: Large
selection of links to online resources on all topics. Relaunched in January
2010 as 'ipl2', the revamped online guide to 'information you can trust'
on the web is edited by librarians and volunteers, hosted by a consortium
of colleges and universities in the US with library science programmes.
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Converters
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ConvertIt |
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ConvertIt converts measurements, currency, time zones |
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Currency Converter |
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Currency converter site |
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Dictionaries
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Focal |
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The national terminology database for the Irish language. |
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Irish Dictionary |
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A free online collaborative dictionary. |
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Merriam-Webster Online |
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Online Dictionary and Thesaurus. |
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One Look Dictionaries |
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Over 600 dictionaries indexed. |
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WordReference |
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Online translation dictionary for English, French, Italian,
Portuguese and Spanish. |
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MSN
Encarta Dictionary |
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Online Dictionary |
Encyclopaedias
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Wikipedia |
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Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
It contains millions of articles in most subject areas. |
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Bibliographies and Online Catalogues
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2020OK |
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Directory of free online books and free ebooks on all
topics. |
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BorrowBooks.ie |
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BorrowBooks.ie allows you to search across the Irish public
libraries’ online catalogues to locate and request an item which is
not held in your own library service. |
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OpenThesis |
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OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations,
and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization,
and collaboration tools. |
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Wikipedia’s
List of Bibliographic Databases |
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Wikipedia’s List of Bibliographic Databases |
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Wikipedia Lists of
Books |
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General and selective lists of books. Lists of books
by their subject, author and series. Lists of fiction books and manuscripts. |
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Wikipedia:Wikiproject
Books: List of books by title |
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List of books by title |
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Maps
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The
AA |
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The AAs routeplanner for Ireland |
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Google Earth |
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Explore the world from your computer |
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Google Maps |
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View maps and directions |
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Newspapers
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The Irish Times |
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The Irish Times daily online |
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Irish Times Archive |
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Irish Times Archive contains every page of The Irish
Times published since 1859
Connect on-site from
library |
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The Guardian |
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One of world’s premier liberal newspapers |
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Kidon Media-Link |
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Newspapers and news sources worldwide |
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News and Newspapers Online |
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Newspapers and news resources worldwide. |
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Newslink |
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A directory of magazine and newspaper websites |
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Onlinenewspapers.com |
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Thousands of newspapers worldwide |
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World-newspapers.com |
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World Newspapers, Magazines, and News Sites in English |
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Phonebooks
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BT
(UK) Phonebook online |
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BT (UK) Phonebook online |
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Infobel World |
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Links to world-wide white and yellow page listings |
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Republic
of Ireland phonebook online |
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Republic of Ireland phonebook online |
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History & Genealogy
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AskAboutIreland |
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AskAboutIreland is an initiative of public libraries together
with local museums and archives in the digitisation and online publication
of the original, the unusual and the unique material from their local studies'
collections to create a national Internet resource for culture. |
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Castle Garden Immigration Centre, 1830-1892 |
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CastleGarden.org offers free access to an extraordinary
database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892,
the year Ellis Island opened. |
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Clare County
Library List of Genealogy Websites |
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Clare County Library List of Genealogy Websites |
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Ellis Island |
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Database of immigrants to the USA from 1892-1924 |
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EPPI: Enhanced British
Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922 |
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EPPI involves the cataloguing and full-text digitisation
of a selection of British Parliamentary papers taken from the University
of Southampton's Ford Collection of Official Publications. |
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Guide
to the Digitisation of Irish Genealogy Records |
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A guide to the current state of play with the digitisation
of Irish genealogical records. Includes a summary of the projects currently
underway at The Irish Genealogical Project, The General Registry Office,
The National Archives, PRONI, The National Library of Ireland, The Valuation
Office, The Ordinance Survey of Ireland, Irish Libraries, The Registry of
Deeds and Eneclann Ltd. |
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Immigration to the United
States, 1789-1930 |
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A web-based collection of selected historical materials
from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary
immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset
of the Great Depression.
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Literature
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CELT |
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The Corpus of Electronic Texts, brings the wealth of
Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet. It has a searchable
online textbase consisting of 11.5 million words, in 1016 contemporary and
historical documents from many areas, including literature and the other
arts. |
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Clare
County Library List of Literary Websites |
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Clare County Library List of Literary Websites |
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Clare
County Library List of Literary Websites for Children |
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Clare County Library List of Literary Websites for Children |
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Clare County
Library List of Library Websites |
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Clare County Library List of Library Websites |
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Project Guttenberg |
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The first and largest single collection of free electronic
books, or eBooks with over 25,000 items (July 2008) in its collection. The
collection consists primarily of works of literature from the Western cultural
tradition in English. In addition to literature such as novels, poetry,
short stories and drama, Project Gutenberg also has cookbooks, reference
works and issues of periodicals. |
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Today in Literature |
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A daily calendar of engaging stories about literary history |
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The
Universal Digital Library |
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The Million Book Project provides access to 1.5 million
online texts |
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Government & Law
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British and Irish Legal Information Institute
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British and Irish Legal Information Institute and Irish
Statutes from 1922 to the present, Statutory Instruments, 1922-1998, case
law (decisions of the Supreme Court, 1999-, the High Court, 1996-, Competition
Authority, 1991- and Information Commissioner, 1998-) and the Irish Law
Reform Commission papers and reports, 1976. This site is complemented by
the Irish Legal Information Initiative
which offers Statutes from 1999 to the present, Statutory Instruments, 2002
to the present, a comprehensive index to High Court and Supreme Court judgements
and an index to articles in Irish legal periodicals. |
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Central Statistics Office of Ireland |
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Extensive databank of statistics on Ireland available. |
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Children's Database |
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Childrensdatabase.ie
containing Irish Government policy documents and annotated websites was
created by the Office of the Minister for
Children. Its purpose is to provide access to research and information
on children for policy-makers, Government departments, academics, voluntary
organisations and the general public. |
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Citizen’s Information |
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Public Service information provided by the Citizens Information
Board |
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Government of Ireland |
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Information and links to the web sites of all government
departments, the Dáil and the Taoiseach.. |
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Houses of the Oireachtas |
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Access to Parliamentary debates in full text from 1919.
Committee debates are available from 1999 and reports from 2002. Acts are
available in full text from 1922 and bills with explanatory memoranda from
1997. |
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Iris Oifigiúil or Official
Gazette |
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Website contains the presidential assent to bills, lists
of statutory instruments and the texts of some government orders, court
notices, bankruptcy notices, regulations, etc. from 2002 to the present. |
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Irish Statute Book |
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A database comprising the Acts of the Oireachtas, Statutory
Instruments and Chronological Tables of the Statutes. |
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Register
of Electors, County Clare |
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Register of Electors, County Clare |
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Business
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Vision-net |
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Vision-net provides information on all companies and businesses
registered with the Irish Company Registration Office (CRO) and their registered
documents. Connect on-site from library. |
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Science & Technology
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CiteSeer |
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A public search engine and digital library for scientific
and academic papers in computer and information science. |
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Clare
Biodiversity |
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The natural heritage of County Clare |
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CNET |
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Extensive coverage of computers and technology
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Dictionary of Irish Architects |
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The Dictionary of Irish Architects contains biographical
and bibliographical information on architects, builders and craftsmen born
or working in Ireland during the period 1720 to 1940, and information on
the buildings on which they worked. |
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Directory of Open Access Journals |
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DOAJ provides free, full text, quality controlled scientific
and scholarly journals covering most subjects and languages. There are over
3,000 journals in the directory, over 1,000 of them searchable at article
level. |
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Google Scholar (GS) |
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A freely-accessible Web search engine that indexes the
full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats
and disciplines. The GS index includes most peer-reviewed online journal
of the world's largest scientific publishers. GS allows users to search
for digital or physical copies of articles, whether they be online or in
libraries. |
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Met Eireann |
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Weather forecast for County Clare from Met Éireann,
the Irish National Meteorological Service |
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Scirus |
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A comprehensive search engine focused on scientific information.
Not all of the results include full text. |
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Wikipedia’s
List of Academic Databases and Search Engines |
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Wikipedia’s List of Academic Databases and Search
Engines |
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Art, Film, & Music
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allmusic |
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A large, informative site covering multiple styles of
music |
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Art History Resources on
the Web |
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Links to resources for the study of art history |
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IMDb |
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The Internet Movie Database A searchable database of
actors and films and TV programmes |
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Irish
Arts Review |
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First published in 1984, the Irish Arts Review
is the definitive journal of art and design in Ireland.
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The Irish in Film |
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A database of Irish films |
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Rotten Tomatoes |
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A searchable database of films. It provides reviews and
it scores films based on the reviews that that film has received. This site
gives you an idea whether or not it is worth taking the trouble to see a
particular movie. |
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Education
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ERIC Education Resources Information Center |
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The world’s largest digital library of education
literature |
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Health & Medicine
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British Medical Journal |
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Full text, searchable articles from January 1994 to present |
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Free Medical Journals |
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Provides access to 430 medical journals |
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PubMed
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Access to bibliographic information including MEDLINE
and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. |
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