Library adds Arts & Sciences VI and Ireland Collections from JSTOR
The Ireland Collection, developed in cooperation with Queen’s University Belfast, is an interdisciplinary collection of journals and other materials. At its expected completion in 2009, it will contain a minimum of 75 currently publishing journals, with moving walls between 1 and 5 years, and 200 monographs. It will also include ceased journals and 2,500 manuscript pages. Complementing JSTOR’s existing collections, the Ireland Collection adds titles and resources across the arts, humanities, and sciences in disciplines such as music, art, history, literature, archaeology, mathematics, and biology. Materials span from the 1780s to the present. The content is international in scope, while also providing a rich focus on Ireland. The Ireland Collection was created with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme.
Highlights include:
- The Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, which date back to 1787, and the Academy’s other valuable publications Ériu, Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, and Irish Studies International Affairs
- Significant portions of Queen’s rare Bunting Collection, composed of melodies and Irish music collected by Edward Bunting in the early 19th century
- Irish Historical Studies, Ireland’s prominent history journal
- History Ireland and Archaeology Ireland
- Irish Arts Review and Circa, both long-standing art publications
- The ISI-ranked Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research
- Fortnight and Magill, political and cultural monthly magazines (in Northern Ireland and Ireland respectively)
- Linen Hall Review, the publication of Northern Ireland’s prominent Linen Hall Library
See Current and Upcoming Title List for Ireland Collection.
Arts & Sciences VI (completed by end of 2010) View Title List
With a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) titles, the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will extend JSTOR’s coverage in disciplines across the social sciences, with clusters focused in economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.
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