In addition to our physical book collection, our online databases provide access to academic literature including journal articles, research papers, newspaper archives and e-books to support your research and learning.
Always access our databases through the Library Catalogue.
Most database content is not freely available. Accessing our databases through the Library Catalogue ensures the system recognises your Carlow College login details and grants you access to content covered by the College’s subscription.Â
Note: When you login on campus, access to our databases is automatic. If you access databases remotely (off campus), you will need to enter the username and password provided for each database below.
Key Academic Databases
APA
The APA is a leading professional organisation for psychology, providing research, publications, and resources across all areas of the discipline:
- PsycINFO: abstracts and citations for research in psychology, mental health, education, social work, and behavioural sciences with links to PsychARTICLES.
- PsychARTICLES: full-text peer-reviewed journals in psychology, psychiatry, and related fields.
To Login
Click the ‘login’ tab at the top right of the APA website. Under the Open Athens dropbox, select ‘St. Patrick’s Carlow College’. Sign in with the same username and password as your @carlowcollege.ie account.
EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost is an online research, platform which hosts several multidisciplinary research databases such as Academic Search Premier, SocINDEX and the e-book academic collection which give access to:
- Multidisciplinary journals: full-text access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and reports across humanities, social sciences, business education, science, and health.
- E-book collections: scholarly e-books from leading publishers covering a variety of subjects.
- Sociology research: peer-reviewed journals and articles on sociology, gender studies, social psychology, religion, and social work.
To Login
Click the blue ‘sign in’ icon at the top right of the EBSCO website and create an account with the same username and password as your @carlowcollege.ie account.
Irish Newspaper Archives
A digital archive providing full-text access to historical and current Irish newspapers. It covers a wide range of topics including history, politics, culture, society, business, and local events, making it a valuable resource for research in the humanities and social sciences.
To Login
Login to your Carlow College Moodle account. There is a direct and secure link to the INA website on the Library Moodle page with an automatic sign in. There is no username or password required.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary online research database providing access to thousands of peer-reviewed academic journals, books, and primary source materials across the humanities, social sciences, arts, and sciences.
To Login
Click on the red ‘log in’ icon on the top right of the JSTOR website. username and password: Contact the Library Desk.
Literary Encyclopedia
A global literary reference resource which publishes biographies of major and minor writers and specially commissioned and expert-written articles on authors, works, literary movements, and historical matters worldwide which provides a finer understanding of the social context in which this writing was produced. A reliable resource for research and study in literature and related fields.
To Login
Create your own account using the same username and password as your @carlowcollege.ie account.
Radical Newspaper Archive
Accessed via the Irish Newspaper Archive. A digital collection of radical and alternative newspapers and periodicals from the 19th and 20th centuries. It offers primary sources on social movements, labour history, civils rights, feminism, anti-war activism, and political protest, making it useful for research in history, sociology, politics, and cultural studies.
To Login
Login to your Carlow College Moodle account. There is a direct and secure link to the INA website on the Library Moodle page with an automatic sign in. Select ‘Radical News Archive’ to the left of the screen. There is no username or password required.
Creating a Personal Database Account
You can create a personal account on any for our databases to save your searches and organise articles and e-books into folders for easy access later.
To create a personal database account:
- Access the database through the ‘library catalogue‘
- Click on ‘Sign In’, ‘Create an Account’ or ‘Register’ (usually at the top of the page)
- Enter your details and create a username and password
Contact
For assistance, please contact the Library Desk, email: librarycc@carlowcollege.ie or call 059 915 3239
Academic eBook Collection
EBSCO’s Academic Worldwide eBook collection contains over 170, 000 eBooks for reading and downloading. ID and password required to log in. Please contact Library Staff.
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 3,100 journals, including full text for nearly 2,700 peer-reviewed titles. ID and password required to log in. Please contact Library Staff.
APA Psychinfo Database
An intuitive search platform built for the discovery and delivery of social and behavioral science content.
BCcampus Open Textbooks:
Provide quality openly licensed textbooks and other Open Educational Resources (OER)  materials with a broad discipline focus. Search by subject and then just download them to your computer.
Directory of Open Access Books:
The purpose of the DOAB is to act as a central repository for open access textbooks, therefore increasing their visibility.  It gives full-text links to open access books on a wide variety including History, Language and Literature, Law and Political Science, Philosophy and Religion, Social Sciences.
EBSCOhost Databases – Search All
EBSCOhost is a platform which hosts a number of research databases. Current students and staff can access hundreds of eBooks and full text journals from the eBook Academic Collection, the multi-disciplinary database Academic Search Premier and SocINDEX with Full Text. ID and password required to log in. Please contact Library Staff.
ERICÂ
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education.
Google Scholar:Â
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer reviewed articles, theses, books, abstracts, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other scholarly organisations.
Irish History Online
Freely available biography of Irish History. Gives access to the contents of the Writings on Irish History from the 1930s and includes bibliographic information on books, pamphlets, articles from journals published in Ireland and internationally as well as chapters from books of essays and conference proceedings.
Irish Newspaper Archives:Â
The Irish Newspaper Archives is the world’s largest and oldest online database of Irish Newspapers. You can view Ireland’s past from 1738 all the up to present day. Many of Ireland’s prominent regional and daily Newspapers are now out of print so the Newspaper Archives gives us the chance to view these newspapers exactly as they would have appeared in the print version. ID and password required to log in. Please contact Library Staff.
Irish Statute Book:Â
Includes Acts of the Oireachtas , Statutory Instruments, and Legislation Directory of the Statutes for the period of 1922 onwards. You can access the Constitution and a selection of pre-1922 legislation.
JSTOR:Â
JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary digital Library for researchers and students. Current students and staff can access the ‘Irish Studies’ collection, and the ‘Language and Literature’ collection. ID and password required to log in. Please contact library staff.
JSTOR Open and Free Content:
Provides access to a wide variety of content from open access journals and e-books.
Open Textbook Project initiated at the University of California. Sciences, social science, engineering, business, humanities, and more. Go to Explore the libraries > Choose subject > Go to bookshelves.
MERLOT Open Educational Resources:
(Online repository for learning resources) An initiative of the California State University, MERLOT provides access to a broad range of multi-discipline Open Educational Resources including case studies, journal articles and textbooks.
OASIS (federated search):
This platform searches across: Open Textbook Library, Libretexts, BCcampus, Teaching Commons, GALILEO Open Learning Materials (University System of Georgia)
OER Commons:
(Online repository for learning resources) OER Commons (OER for open educational resources) is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials. OER Commons provides access to a broad range of multi-discipline open educational resources including case studies, journal articles and textbooks
Open Access theses and dissertations:
Aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1000 colleges, universities, and research institutions.
OpenStax (Rice University):
Provides access to peer-reviewed, openly-licenced textbooks in maths, science, social sciences, and business.
Open Textbook Library (University of Minnesota):
Over 700 downloadable textbooks covering a broad range of subjects. These books can be freely downloaded.
Project Gutenberg:
Provides access to 60,000+ books for which copyright has expired. Focus is on literature classics, philosophical works, and much more.
Rian:
Combines the research and higher theses of 16 individual repositories alongside the seven Irish Universities and other research bodies including Teagasc and the HSE. Users can search RIAN by keywords, institution, funding body or item type, to include dissertations and theses.
SocINDEX is the world’s most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. It contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers. Subjects include gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion, and social work. ID and password required to log in. Please contact Library Staff.
SpringerOpen (Springer Nature):
Offers researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals and books. Content is freely available online for everyone and contains a broad range of journal and book content covering topics that include Education, History, Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Sciences, Political Science and International Relations.
UCL Press:
Launched in 2015 as the UK’s first fully open access university press. In that time, it has published over 140 open access scholarly books and textbooks as well as 13 open access journals.  Contains a broad range of content and is freely available for everybody online.