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Access to The Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 is now available. This online bibliography lists 5,800 Irish newspapers and periodicals published during the nineteenth century. It contains a diverse range of Irish historical documents, including records for nationalist magazines and broadsheets, migrant newspapers, local almanacs, provincial newspapers, society proceedings, and Church reports. It also contains over 2,000 images. The Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 includes hyperlinks to available full text e-access titles, as well as library locations, and a virtually complete list of all secondary research on each, as well as up to 32 fields of data per title, including a historical summary of each title. It has 6 searchable indexes: title, issuing body, people, town, county/country, and subject. A Global Search allows for broader searches. This resource is updated regularly. Access is available via t...

Through the IReL consortium, the Library has now access to the back issues of over 1000 Springer Journals. These journals cover a range of disciplines and go back in many instances to the very first volume of the title. Subjects covered are from the following areas: Examples of journal titles with expanded coverage include: Archives of Virology Vol 1 1939- Astrophysics Vol 1 1965- The Botanical Review Vol 1 1935- Environmental Geology Vol 1 1975- European Biophysics Journal Vol 1 1974- Int. Journal of Early Childhood Vol 1 1969- Journal of Genetics Vol 1 1910- Journal of Materials Science Vol 1 1966- Law & Philosophy Vol 1 1982- Marine Biology Vol 1 1967- Sexuality & Disability Vol 1 1978-  Water, Air & Soil Pollution Vol 1 1971-  A full list of the Springer titles is available for consultation (Note that the years given are the backfile years and do not include the current subscription years to the journals). Access to all these...

Through the IReL consortium access to  JSTOR Arts and Sciences XII Collection is now available. This new collection significantly expands JSTOR's coverage of the Social Sciences. JSTOR Arts and Sciences XII Collection  contains  128  journals (540,006 articles) in the following subject areas: Education Law Political Science Psychology Social Work Sociology Asian Studies Criminology A title list can be viewed  here . Journal publishers in this new collection include: the American Bar Association, Brill, Lynn Reiner, Springer and many more. All the journals available in the   JSTOR Arts and Sciences XII Collection can be accessed via JSTOR or via the  library catalogue .  Collection Development

Kanopy   is a video streaming collection providing access to over  20,000  films from more than  850  filmmakers.  Kanopy's film collection covers all subject disciplines and includes documentaries, feature films, foreign language film, independent film, instructional film and more. Over  200+  new films are added every month. The Library's access to Kanopy is via a Patron Driven Acquisition Programme. A set amount of money has been paid to the supplier of Kanopy for this financial year. If a film is viewed  4+  times this film is licensed/triggered and the budget is deducted accordingly. Note:  Lecturers should ensure any films/documentaries required for course material are viewed  4+  times to ensure the film is triggered. The usage of Kanopy will be monitored regularly. Kanopy's   Help Center  is a very useful resource area. Viewers can add films to watchlists, create  film clips and playlists...

Library Print Journals   on Floor 1 Over the last two years the entire library’s print journal collection has been merged and are all housed in the journals area towards the rear of Floor 1.   On the library catalogue they are listed as FL1J.   There are no longer journals kept on Floor 2, Nursing Library or in the Law area.   The space created by these moves has been put to good use making room   for more study spaces for students!

Adam Matthew Digital Archives Wednesday 10th October 1230-1330   James Hardiman Library (Nursing & Midwifery PC Suite)   Booking Required here Join Dr Ben Lacey to discuss digital archives from Adam Matthew that are available through NUIG Library. There will be a tour of the digitised documents and the websites a look at how they are made how they can be used in teaching how the full-text data can add to research a chance to ask questions. NUI Galway Adam Matthew collections are: Eighteenth Century Journals II Empire Online   Medieval Travel Writing Perdita Manuscripts  

Now that the start of term has commenced, the NUI Galway community will be back using the Library's resources. You'll have seen that we have a brand new search interface to search the Library Catalogue. The new search interface is full of intelligent features to help enhance your experience of the Library's collections. It's designed to find the right result quicker and more effectively for you. Unfortunately, it also has some teething problems. You might find some odd inconsistencies when you're looking for an e-journal or a link to an article from and e-journal. For example you may be searching for a journal, and when the catalogue says the journal is available, you'll get a message like the one below saying there are no results for the record: So it looks like we've no access to the journal you're looking for. However, if you press F5 or Ctrl+F5 to refresh the screen, the links to the content will now appear for you: This is down t...