Services and Programmes

Online learning: research databases

The Reference Library provides in-house passworded access to the following electronic databases and journals:           

Business and Finance  — A business magazine providing coverage and analysis of key business stories of national and global interest.  www.businessandfinance.ie

The Economist  — Provides information on international politics, current affairs and business.    www.economist.com

FACTfinder     — Provides full text of articles, links to PDF images of articles, abstracts, and citations on Irish business, from newspapers and magazines published since1991.   www.factfinder.ie             

History Ireland  — Illustrated Irish history magazine, featuring articles from all periods of history, books reviews, news and events.  www.historyireland.com 

Ireland's Historical Mapping Archive - Providing access to historical Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland online.  www.irishhistoricmaps.ie

Irish Health -  Medical and health care information.  www.irishhealth.com

Irish Times digital archive -  The archive contains the entire Irish Times from its first edition in 1859 to the present.  www.askaboutireland.com 

JSTOR  —   An online archive of academic journals and other scholarly content. Cork City Libraries provides free in-house access to JSTOR's Ireland Collection of almost 100 journals within JSTOR.     

Keesings — A world news archive from 1931 to present.  www.keesings.com

Journal of Music in Ireland  — Music magazine discussing musical life in Ireland.   www.thejmi.com

Public affairs Ireland  — A guide to legislative, regulatory and public affairs issues in Ireland. www.publicaffairsireland.com

Times Literary Supplement — Provides reviews of books and other cultural events. www.the-tls.co.uk

Vision-net  — Provides access to documents of all Irish registered companies. www.vision-net.ie

         Electronic Resources available from home   

Registered members of Cork City Libraries can access Encyclopedia Britannica from home by entering their membership barcode.

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