A-Z
Library databases are online collections that search quality journal, magazine, newspaper and other academic sources.
To access one of our databases by name use the A–Z listing below.
Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Bloomsbury Professional Online
Access to Employment Law, Litigation, Company Law and Property Law.
Business Source Complete (Ebsco)
A scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
ClinicalKey Student Nursing
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Ebooks, videos and images.
CINAHL with Full Text (Ebsco)
A full text database of nursing & allied health journals. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981.
The Cochrane Library (Freely available)
A regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
Decisis Law Reports
Reports and indexes of all written judgements from the Irish superior courts since 2011. Also, legal events and developments news.
Dental Nursing and Audiology e-books (Ebsco)
14 electronic books located on the EBSCO databases.
Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source
This database offers an extensive collection of important full-text journals, many with no embargo. This unique database includes many active full-text sources not available in any other EBSCO databases.
Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary) (Proquest)
Over 80,000 ebooks
EBSCO Databases – Search All
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Emerald
Search a full-text database covering major management disciplines including, marketing, HR and organisational development, library & information management, quality and operations management.
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ERIC (Freely available)
The Education Resources Information Center is an online digital library of education research and information, sponsored by the US Institute of Education Sciences and the US Department of Education. It provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added twice weekly. If available, links to full text are included.
Financial Times Online (Additional registration required)
FT.com (Financial Times Online). The Financial Times (FT.com) is the online edition of the daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news internationally. In addition to the website, the FT ePaper is also available. Licensed through the Business School in AIT.
GreenFILE (Ebsco)
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. Freely available
Health Research Premium
Health care information from a broad collection of journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations, including the top ProQuest health and medical databases.
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HeinOnline
Access to The Law Journal Library containing more than 1,200 law and law-related periodicals, and English Reports, full reprint (1220-1865).
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IHS
Standards, regulatory, product and supplier information in the areas of construction, civil engineering and health and safety. Includes full-text British Standards.
To obtain Irish health and safety information only, search the Occupational Health and Safety Information Service and click on the “relevant to me” link on the left. Then select the required geographical area.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
IEEE’s most comprehensive collection, featuring high-quality content from the IEEE and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Included is access to all IEEE/IET journals, conference proceedings, and active standards—30% of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and related technologies.
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JOVE Video Journal & Science Education
Advanced Biology
Chemistry
Clinical Skills
Engineering
Environmental Sciences
Physics
Psychology
JSTOR – Ireland Collection
Developed in cooperation with Queen’s University Belfast, this is an interdisciplinary collection of over 75 journals, including journals with moving walls between 1 and 5 years and ceased journals from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries with over 200 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages from the disciplines of arts, humanities, and sciences including music, art, history, literature, archaeology, mathematics, and biology. Materials span from the 1780s to the present.
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Justis
Justis is a case law database containing full-text Irish reports and digests from 1838 to present. First Law content available on Justis.
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Marketline Advantage
Country, industry and company profiles. Formerly known as Datamonitor.
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Medicines Complete
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- British National Formulary – Guidance on the actions and uses of drugs prescribed in the UK.
- BNF Legacy
– Guidance on the actions and uses of drugs prescribed in the UK. - Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference – Information and background on conventional and complementary drugs and associated compounds, international proprietary names, and disease treatments.
Medline
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Freely available.
OvidSP
A collection of legacy nursing databases and ebooks, MEDLINE, and the current journals: Ear and Hearing; and Nursing Times.
PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress
Index and abstracts of literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
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PsycArticles
Full-text peer-reviewed articles published by the American Psychological Association and affiliated journals.
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PsycInfo
Index and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature in behavioural science and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association.
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ProQuest Databases – Search All
Search across Health Research Premium, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, PTSDPubs and Ebook Central.
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PubMed (Freely available)
PubMed comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher websites.
Research Professional
Database of research funding opportunities and research policy news.
ScienceDirect
Search a database providing Scientific, Technical and Medical information. ScienceDirect offers immediate access to the abstracts, journal and reference work articles needed for research. It contains over 6 million articles and 60 million abstracts from over 1,800 journals.
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Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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SocINDEX with Full Text
A sociology research database. SocIndex contains full text for 708 journals dating back to 1908 and also includes full text for more than 780 books and monographs, and full text for 9,333 conference papers. Subjects include abortion, criminology; criminal justice, demography, ethnic; racial studies, gender studies, marriage; family, political sociology, religion, rural; urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse; other addictions, violence and many others.
SPORTDiscus
Literature for sports and sports medicine journals, providing full-text content from many well-known and respected sources. It is an essential tool for health professionals, researchers and students, providing extensive coverage in the areas of fitness, health and sport studies.
Taylor & Francis Social Sciences and Humanities Library
Literature for sports and sports medicine journals, providing full-text content from many well-known and respected sources. It is an essential tool for health professionals, researchers and students, providing extensive coverage in the areas of fitness, health and sport studies.
Supplier has not provided direct links to subscription titles only; so your search may result in articles to which there is no access.
The Irish Times
Fulltext access to the newspaper daily and a searchable archive of text articles published on IrishTimes.com from 1996 onwards.
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Westlaw IE
Westlaw IE provides access to Irish legal information including the Irish Law Reports Monthly and other reported and unreported case material, Legislation, Journals and news.
Westlaw UK
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The database provides access to UK case reports, legislation, analytical commentary, a comprehensive collection of full text journals, a legal journal index and EU material.
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