Farewell Zetoc

Zetoc - alerts closed

Zetoc is one of the resources I would use to track developments within Irish Diaspora Studies.

Zetoc is simply a journals Table of Contents tracking and alerts system, linked to the British Library database.  The Zetoc service is provided by Mimas at The University of Manchester on behalf of the British Library and JISC.

http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/

Note the limitations to access.  Basically, you have to be a member of a UK Higher Education institution.  Independent scholars - nah!

This was my list of journals at Zetoc.  Whenever Zetoc became aware of a new Table of Contents for one of these journals it would send me an email.

ISSN  Title Last Issue

0790-892X   ARCHAEOLOGY IRELAND     24/03/2012  VOL 26; NUMB 1

0376-6039   BOOKS IRELAND     14/12/2010  NUMB 326

1353-0089   CAMBRIAN MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIES    27/01/2012  NUMB 62

0013-2683   EIRE IRELAND      20/01/2012  VOL 46; NUMB 3/4

0790-0430   FOOD IRELAND      (No longer in Zetoc)

0332-4893   IRISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY   25/01/2012  VOL 37

0332-3315   IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES     06/04/2012  VOL 31; NUMBER 1

1649-6825   IRISH FEMINIST REVIEW -WOMENS STUDIES CENTRE-(No longer in Zetoc)

0075-0778   IRISH GEOGRAPHY   26/05/2012  VOL 44; NUMB 2/3

0021-1214   IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES      22/03/2012  NUMB 148

0790-7184   IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES 12/01/2012  VOL 26; NUMBER 4

0790-7850   IRISH REVIEW -CORK-     18/08/2011  NUMB 43

0967-0882   IRISH STUDIES REVIEW -BATH-   04/04/2012  VOL 20; NUMBER 1

0021-1427   IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW 24/05/2011  VOL 41; NUMB 1

0268-537X   JOURNAL OF IRISH ARCHAEOLOGY  31/07/2010  VOL 17

1460-8944   NATIONAL IDENTITIES     24/02/2012  VOL 13; NUMB 4

0332-1592   PERITIA -GALWAY THEN CORK THEN TURNHOUT-  (No longer in Zetoc)

0957-0756   PROCEEDINGS- HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND  25/10/2011  VOL 29; NUMB 4

0035-8991   PROCEEDINGS- ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE    (No longer in Zetoc)

1350-9942   SOCIAL ATTITUDES IN NORTHERN IRELAND      (No longer in Zetoc)

0039-3495   STUDIES -DUBLIN-  15/05/2012  VOL 101; NUMB 401

0040-1676   TECHNOLOGY IRELAND      21/04/2012  SPR

0082-7347   ULSTER FOLKLIFE   (No longer in Zetoc)

A number of Irish interest journals have disappeared - I have left them in the list, for interest's sake. 

Important North American and Australasian journals are not listed here - remember, this is linked to the British Library database.

And most - not all - of the journals listed here now have their own web sites, and their own systems for generating Table of Contents alerts.  And there is a bit of time lag, as journals generate Tables of Contents, and they percolate through to the Zetoc system.

So, it might be felt, that Zetoc's usefulness is becoming limited. 

And yet, and yet, and yet...

Look at one journal listed there - Patrick Sims-Williams' CAMBRIAN MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIES. Doggedly only on paper.

In one Table of Contents, generated by Zetoc, I saw this...

`Messe ocus Pangur Ban': Structure and Cosmology.

Toner, Gregory

pp. 1-22

CAMBRIAN MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIES

NUMB 57; 2009

ISSN 1353-0089

The poem 'Pangur Ban' has become one of the foundation texts of Irish Diaspora Studies, not least because so many poets - including me - have produced versions.

With the help of the editor and the author I was able to read this article, a lovely, scholarly piece of work.  Gregory Toner adds new dimensions to Pangur Ban studies, to our understanding of the poem and the manuscript.

Would I have known about Gregory Toner's article were it not for Zetoc?  Perhaps?  Eventually?  I don't know.

Anyway, thank you Zetoc, and farewell.

Patrick O'Sullivan