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Gaeilge (as Béarla): Journals & Databases

Relevant databases

A database is a searchable collection of academic literature. It generally contains journal articles but also holds reports, case studies, e-books, book chapters and images which you can use in your studies.

The following databases are just a small number of available databases.

Articles
  • CELT 
    (is a database from UCC of contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics)
  • Irish Traditional Music Archive 
    (contains audio and video material, books and serials with a photographic collection relating to Irish traditional music) 
  • JSTOR 
    (a not-for-profit organization with a trusted archive of important scholarly journals)
  • MLA International Bibliography 
    (contains a collection of 1.6 million citations drawn from 4,400 journals with coverage running from 1963 to the present day)
Dictionaries & Reference Books
  • Dictionary of Irish Biography 
    (the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland)
  • Oxford Reference Online 
    (contains dictionaries, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press)

 

A full list of relevant databases for your subject area is available by clicking here.

What is?

An evaluation of professional or academic work by other experts working in the same field.

Open access is a publishing model for scholarly communication that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which readers have access to scholarly information by paying a subscription (usually via libraries).

Example:

MIRR is the college's Institutional Repository and is an example of what is available on open access. The repository contains research conducted by MIC lecturers and researchers.

Relevant journals

A journal is an academic publication that publishes articles about research written by experts in the field of study. The list below is a selection of relevant journal titles accessible through MIC Library subscriptions.

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