The Irish Times Online – where and how to access

One of the more frequent questions we receive in the Library is regarding online access to the Irish Times.  We have electronic access but not through a direct subscription via the Irish Times website. Instead we access through our databases. 

To find the Irish Times Online:

• open our Library Catalogue and sign in
• search for Irish Times
• the following results display our print, microfilm and online links to the Irish Times
• the bottom two links within the black lines provide our main online links to the newspaper

The Irish Times (Online Access)

Current Irish Times content is available through Proquest, accessible via the Irish Times link above. The newspaper is updated on the database within a day of the print and the content - not images - are made available. The articles are listed in order by page from the newspaper and it can be browsed or searched by date.  

Irish Times Archive (1859-2012)

The Irish Times Archive  is a more sophisticated resource providing the newspaper in a superb digitised format from 1859-2012. This database is an excellent research tool providing the paper as a social and historical resource with articles, photographs, supplements, advertisements  -all the elements that compose a newspaper. 

Nexis (not in list)

The Nexis Newspaper database provides alternative access to the Irish Times covering the years from 1991- to present.  It provides content but not images or digitised formats. It does, however also cover the Irish Independent, the Irish Examiner and a number of other national and provincial titles.

To access Irish newspapers on Nexis:

• Open our Library Catalogue and sign in
• Search for Nexis
• Click on the title 
• Once the database opens select Irish Publications within the Sources Menu
• Carry out a search
• The newspapers are displayed on left, the articles down the centre of screen

Many more electronic newspapers are available, so check out our Newspapers page for more information about the range of titles and formats available in the Library 

Reminder: Demonstrations of the Library's scanning equipment

Come along to a demonstration of the James Hardiman Library's scanning equipment which will take place in the Library Digitization Centre on the top floor of the Library at 12:00 on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th February.

The Library Digitization Service is available to staff and postgraduate students wishing to digitize material to support research, teaching or publication.

The Library Digitization Centre houses three high spec scanners:

1) A Kirtas 1200 book scanner which can scan a bound volume at a rate of over 600 pages per hour, using a an automatic page turning mechanism.

2) A Bookeye 3 A1 scanner which can scan large format material such as newspapers and maps. This scanner is also suitable for scanning loose material, for example archival collections.

3) A Nikon Coolscan 500 slide and film scanner which can be used to scan 35mm negatives and slides.

All three scanners can output high quality images in a range of formats including jpeg, tiff and PDF. The library digitization centre can also provide post processing services for scanned material including high quality OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

Demonstrator: Fergus Fahey, Institutional Repository & Digitization Librarian
email: fergus.fahey@nuigalway.ie
telephone: 091 495961 ; extension: 5961


If you are a member of staff or a postgraduate student and would like to attend one of these demonstrations please confirm your attendance here