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Welcome! This guide will help you find the best information sources for Film, Documentary and Media.

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Library databases are online collections that search quality journal, magazine, newspaper and other academic sources.

 

Most of our databases are searchable on our library discovery service, this means you can search several databases at once.

However, some databases will have to be searched separately. 

Click on the Databases button on the library website to:

  • see a full listing of our databases
  • see which ones are indexed on our library discovery service
  • search each database individually

Search Donegal databases

Search Galway and Mayo databases

Search Sligo databases

 

Key Databases

JSTOR

Content 

  • Full-text journal articles, book chapters, images.
  • Artstor's collection of high-quality images curated from museums and archives around the world.

Subjects: Fine Art, Design, Arts, Culture, History

Project MUSE

Designed by the academic community, for the academic community Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources.

Wiley Online Library

Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 6 million articles from over 1500 journals, over 20,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Taylor & Francis

A multidisciplinary resource containing online resources for arts, humanities, science, social sciences and medicine disciplines.
Access from:
Donegal
Galway & Mayo
Sligo

Search Tips

  • Plan your search. Brainstorm keywords and synonyms. For example, genes, genetic, hereditary, congenital, inherited.
  • Most databases have an Advanced Search option. Use it to focus your search.
  • Use "quote marks" to search for phrases. For example, "genetic disorders"

Science Direct Topic Finder

The Topic Finder at the bottom of the Science Direct database page is an excellent tool to find the most relevant excerpts, definitions and related content for science related terms. It provides definitions and detailed descriptions for words related to a wide range of Science disciplines. 

Access the Topics page by scrolling to the bottom of the page on ScienceDirect and clicking on "Browse by Topic".


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