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Spotlight: Predatory Journals and the E-Resources Predatory Journals Project

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  Behind the Scenes: The E-Resources Predatory Journals Project - If you’ve ever searched for journal articles online, you’ve probably come across terms like  open access  or  peer reviewed . But there’s another term worth knowing —  predatory journals . These are the questionable ones that charge hefty author fees but also skip proper peer review. The y  look professional, but underneath, they’re more about profit than genuine scholarship. For students and researchers, that’s a major concern — because poor-quality or misleading research can slip through their pages and end up being cited as fact. Over the last year, our E-Resources team has been working on a project to identify and flag potentially predatory journals appearing in our library systems. It’s a bit like academic detective work. We’ve been pulling information from sources like Beall’s List and PredatoryJournals.org, reviewing titles one by one, and removing the more obvious offenders from our d...
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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography - 2nd Edition Now Available

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The Library has recently acquired electronic access to the most recent edition of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography ., published by Elsevier. The second edition of this encyclopedia (14 volumes in print), contains approximately 800 articles covering a range of related themes and topics.  Examples include: cultural geography postcolonial geographies economic inequalities Historical geographies of political/conflict/border-making events critical disability studies Cartography digital technologies  human/society and nature relations  climate change; natural disasters electoral geographies population growth and distribution  social theories urban social geography The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography is available via the Library Catalogue. Collection Development / Forbairt Bailiúchán
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Treasures of the O’Gorman Special Collection: Seamus Heaney

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Treasures of the O’Gorman Special Collection Blog Series – Volume 4 Seamus Heaney A literary collection owned by the late entrepreneur, local historian and supporter of the arts, Ronnie O’Gorman, was recently donated to the University of Galway. This collection, spanning three generations of the O’Gorman family, includes countless items of literary and historic value. To read more about this donation, please see: O’GormanCollection donated to the University of Galway . Within the collection is an excellent selection of works and poetry volumes by the acclaimed poet Seamus Heaney. This blog post will highlight some of these volumes.   Previous editions of the Treasures of the O’Gorman Special Collection William Butler Yeats James Joyce A Selection of Literature   Poetry Death of a Naturalist Heaney’s first poetry collection The Death of a Naturalist was Seamus Heaney’s first published collection of poetry. Published by Faber & Faber. Hardback a...
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