Online Encylopaediae & Journals

	WilsonWeb, Mega Edition gives access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad. Users have access to information on virtually any subject.
	Oxford Art Online. Previously known as Grove Art Online you are now able to cross search and browse a suite of valuable art reference publications simultaneously including a sophisticated fielded bibliography search.
	Oxford Music Online is a gateway for online music resources and incorporates Grove Music Online. All articles are now grouped together, under one search result.
	The DNB is a collection of more than 57,000 specially written biographies, which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond from the 4th century BC to the 21st century.
	Oxford Reference Online brings together a huge range of reference books from Oxford University Press into a single cross-searchable resource.
	The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the English language in the world, tracing the evolution and use of more than 600,000 words through 3 million quotations
	Oxford Dictionaries Online is Oxford’s premium online dictionary and language reference service of modern English. It covers British, American, and World English
	The Oxford Language Dictionaries Online website features essential language resources never before available online.
	Newsbank allows you to search back issues of one or more newspapers using an easy to use but powerful interface. The newspapers available in our collection are:Irish Independent Irish Times The Guardian Washington Post One or more of these newspapers may be searched simultaneously
	LexisNexis - collection of world news and business information
	Vision-Net gives you immediate web access to the original documents as filed in the Irish Companies Registration Office.
	The Irish Times Digital archive contains exact reproductions of all articles published by the Irish Times from 1859 onwards up to present day./en/media/irish-times.png
	The Ireland Collection, developed in cooperation with Queen's University Belfast, is an interdisciplinary collection of journals and other materials. The Collection contains 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 following sites are free to Galway Public Libraries login using your Membership Card barcode

Encyclopaedia Britannica combines 238 years of heritage with up-to-date information to produce the world's most indispensable reference set. In an age when anyone can post their version of the facts on the Internet, Encyclopædia Britannica maintains its reputation as the most authoritative source of the information and ideas people need for work, school, and the sheer joy of discovery. It consists of three encyclopaedias which are tailored for different age groups.

The three encyclopaediae are ...

	Britannica Junior Age Group 5 years to 11 years
	Britannica Student Age Group 12 years to 18 years
	Encyclopaedia Britannica Age Group 18 years and Up

Access the Irish Times Digital Archive which features exact reproductions of all articles published by the Irish Times from 1859 onwards online and free of charge at all branches of Galway Public Libraries

Free Resources

History of Galway

Books on Galway's History: A number of books on Galway's history are available online . These books include:

History of Lough Corrib by William R. Wilde
History of Galway by James Hardiman
Iar Connaught by Roderick O'Flaherty
Waterways of Galway by IEI

The Lawrence Family Album, an important archive, is a wonderful history, pictorial and textual, of the family and the district of Lawrencetown. It is a treasure trove in terms of its value to local history containing so much rich detail on the family, together with late nineteenth century photographs of the village of Lawrencetown , family portraits and interior views of the house. The Album reveals so much about an era and a family which have long since disappeared but which played an important part in the development of the local landscape.

Galway Reader is a web site consisting of articles on Galway's history. It was edited by Samuel J. Maguire and was compiled in the 1950's. It is now available online.

In 1838, John O'Donovan was commissioned to list the place names of Ireland . For each place name, he listed variations of its name, its irish form, its translation, its situation, and a brief description. At present, we are putting the O'Donovan Place Names of Galway on the web.

Local History Websites is a web page that briefly outlines other resources on Galway's history and on genealogy.

Education
ERIC - The Education Resources Information Center sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. ERIC provides a public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966 and, with contributor permission, accessing more than 110,000 full-text materials at no charge. ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, incorporating new technologies to facilitate the addition of materials and help users identify, evaluate, and obtain education-related research and other materials

Encyclopediae
Encarta contains more than 4,500 articles on the world of knowledge--from aardvark to Zambia . It includes a dictionary and an atlas.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It contains millions of articles in most subject areas.

Film
The Internet Movie Database is a searchable database of actors and films.
Rotten Tomatoes is 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.

Literature
Bartleby is an excellent website. It allows you to search a great many reference works. For example, if you are trying to find a quote from one of Shakespeare's plays and know only some of the words contained in the quote, this site will enable you to retrieve the line from the play. Search options provided are listed hereunder.

Reference
The Database of Award Winning Children's Literature creates a tailored reading list of quality children's literature by identifying books that have won one of the indexed awards.
The Great Web Sites for Kids is a database of web sites selected and recommended by librarians in the US . It is possible to search by age of intended audience, keywords, or web address

Medical
The British Medical Journal site contains the current issue and past issues of this journal. These are searchable. Full text articles are available.
Free Medical Journals site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet.
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Science
The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2293 journals in the directory. Currently 653 journals are searchable at article level.