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Dervla Murphy Travel Writer: print and e-books now available

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    Dervla Murphy was one of the foremost travel writers of her generation. . Beginning with her first book, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle in 1965 , she wrote 26 books detailing her adventurous travels to distant and not-so distant parts of the globe. Her Irish Times obituary provides an overview of her fascinating and unconventional life. In addition to the print copies in our collection, the Library has recently acquired electronic versions of Dervla Murphy's travel books where available. These are listed with links below:  Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle Tibetan Foothold The Waiting Land: a spell in Nepal In Ethiopia with a Mule On a Shoestring to Coorg Where the Indus is Young: a writer in Baltistan A Place Apart: Ireland in the 1970s Eight Feet in the Andes Muddling through in Madagascar Tales from Two Cities: Travel of Another Sort Cameroon with Egbert The Ukimwi Road : From Kenya to Zimbabwe South from the Limpopo : Travels through South A...
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Open Research Forum: University of Galway's Research Publishing Policy: Empowering our Research Community

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Save the date  for our next Open Research Forum on  2 0   May  2026 ,   “ University of Galway's Research Publishing Policy: Empowering our Research Community ” . This event is hosted by  University  of Galway  Library  Research Services .      Agenda :  Wednesday, 20 May   12.00: Keynote: Arushi Sharma, Trinity College Dublin, SCOIR project    12.20: Claire O'Connor,  Director of Planning and Institutional Research   12:30: Martin Leahy, Research Integrity Officer   12:40: Panel questions and responses   13:00: Light lunch     Venue:  Hardiman Building Seminar Room, THB-G010, University of Galway     Please register here for catering purposes:  registration link .   Topic   Research  publishing  attains  its highest standards when grounded in openness. This forum unveils the University’s  Research Publishing Policy .  ...
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Beyond Closed Research Metrics: Rethinking Research Discovery and Rankings (part 2 of 2)

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Traditionally, academic publishing has been closed, which means that readers can only access research outputs if you or the institution you are affiliated with pay for them through subscriptions. However, research metrics – approximate measures of how many papers have been published and how often they have been cited – are created by the same companies that publish and index the research.  These commercial interests mean that research metrics such as Clarivate’s “Journal Impact Factor” and the Scopus “CiteScore” are biased in such a way that they reward publishing and citing sources within these same companies. This means that university ranking systems based on these metrics are also biased; therefore, proprietary research metrics and commercial university rankings are all part of the same closed research infrastructure. Recently, many institutions have started to withdraw from this closed, commercially-driven research infrastructure, as detailed in part 1 of this post , which als...
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