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There will be upcoming maintenance on Emerald’s research platform, Emerald Insight, which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 5 February 2019 beginning at 08:00 GMT - lasting for up to 12 hours. During this time, the site will be placed into ‘read-only’ mode, making the following functionality unavailable for the duration of the upgrade: Activating access tokens Adding publications as favourites Alert subscriptions Any changes to ‘My Account’ and ‘Institutional Account’ E-commerce Registration Search. Should you access the website during this time, you will receive a notification that the site functionality is temporary unavailable within your browser. Please note that this may also affect some functionality on

Developing skills with digital technologies can be a challenge for researchers interested in digital and open scholarship. To help, the Library, in partnership with the Moore Institute, presents a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how, and experience in technologies and methods, that will enhance your experience of newer forms of scholarship. Events in this semester’s series include:   Planning & Building Digital Projects – David Kelly , G010, 12-1pm Thursday, 31st January. Register for Planning & Building Digital Projects Introduction to Research Data Management and related supports at NUI Galway – Trish Finnan , G010, 12-1pm Wednesday 27th February Register for Introduction to Research Data Management Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka – Cillian Joy , G011, 12-1pm Thursday 28th March Register for Creating Digital Exhibitions with Omeka Archives in the digital age – balancing evolving expectations against the realities of

While contract negotiations with Elsevier continue with the Irish universities, our access to Scopus has been restored until January 31st. If you find you are still having problem accessing content on Scopus, you will probably need to clear out your browser's cache and cookies.