Author Archives: Diarmuid Kennedy

The World Bank’s Open Knowledge Repository is now freely available at https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/.  The OKR contains research from thousands of works including: World Bank published books from 2009-2012, Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP) from 2009-2012, Economic and Sector Work (ESW) studies from … Continue reading →

The library has a rather fine bookpage scanner on loan (the book2net Spirit). You can scan directly to a PDF file and save it to your memory stick. Best of all it is absolutely free to use. You can find … Continue reading →

Trial access is now available to C19 UK Periodical Series 2 – Empire.  Simply log onto C19 UK Periodical Series 1 (available via Qsearch) and the Series 2 will automatically be available.  Please note this trial will end on 1st … Continue reading →

ECCO and EEBO are now available as part of the JISC Historic Books Collection. Currently access must be authenticated against your QUB credentials. You will need to login via QSearch and then select the resource from the A-Z list of … Continue reading →

The Library has recently updated its ebrary collection and some titles are no longer available.  Unfortunately updating QCAT will take some time and we apologize if you come across ebooks which you cannot access.  We hope to remove the records for unavailable titles … Continue reading →

The McClay Library is hosting the exhibition Belfast 1911: A Day in the Life of a City.  It can be seen on Floor 1 of the library and further details are available here: http://www.belfastfamilyhistory.com/exhibition.php

An exhibition exploring the life and work of the Belfast authors Forrest Reid (1875-1947) and Stephen Gilbert (1912-2010) is on display on Floor 1 of the McClay Library until the end of September. Reid published widely, and won the James … Continue reading →

RefWorks Classic will soon be gone! At the moment Queen’s is running it in parallel with the new interface, RefWorks 2.0, but it is due to be switched off in September. If you would like to see the new version … Continue reading →

“EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center™ databases provide users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. These full-text databases combine information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals, and original … Continue reading →

From now until May 31st QUB have access to the Illustrated London News Historical Archive.  The Illustrated London News Historical Archive makes available for the first time online the complete searchable facsimile run of the the entire run on the Illustrated … Continue reading →