Electronic Resources at NUI Galway Library 

Electronic Resources Service

The main aim of the Electronic Resources Service is to provide seamless access for our user community, both on and off campus, to high quality electronic content that the NUI, Galway Library subscribes to, through configuration, accurate linking and proactive monitoring.

The E-Resources team

The E-Resources team consists of John Costello, Caroline O’ Halloran and Ann Reilly. As mentioned earlier, the main aim of the team is to provide and maintain seamless access to high quality electronic content in multiple formats (databases, e-journals, e-books, newspapers, multimedia, etc.) via a range of methods (laptops, tablets, phones etc.).  They are also responsible for monitoring and fixing links to e-books, e-journals, and full collections while amending threshold dates to ensure accuracy within the Library Catalogue.

 

There are currently over 400 active and available Collections for NUI Galway users, with just under 1.2 million items of content currently activated and administered by the E-Resources team.

E-Resources Access

All of NUI, Galway’s electronic resources are available via the Library Catalogue and the team are constantly adding and updating these resources while also enabling them for access via our off-campus access service so our user community can access our resources anywhere. Using your Student/Staff ID and Password you can log into the Library Catalogue which will also give you access to our electronic resources. 

We have also uploaded our holdings into Google Scholar, which we update on a weekly basis. You can link your personal Google Scholar account to the NUI, Galway Library by changing the Library Links setting in Google Scholar. This allows you to access our resources when searching Google Scholar and any search result that is subscribed to by NUI Galway will have a link available in the Google Scholar search results screen.

E-Resources Authentication

The E-Resources team registers the NUI, Galway IP range along with our off campus access details with all our providers to ensure continuous access to subscribed content along with enabling shibboleth access using the University IDP wherever possible.

E-Resources Enquiries

The delivery of the E-Resources service should be seamless; however, we understand there will always be a need for our users to contact our service.

If you wish to contact the service there are multiple avenues you can avail of, you can click on the ‘Report A Problem’ link which you will find on the linking menu of every electronic item in the Library Catalogue. You can send an email to servicedesk@nuigalway.ie detailing your issue, or our preferred method, you can submit a ticket to the ServiceDesk.

To submit a ticket:

To submit a ticket:

1. Log into ServiceDesk, select the category: 02. Library Services - Journals/Databases/Resource Issues
2. A form will appear, enter the relevant information and press submit.
3. If you have any further questions about our service please don’t hesitate to contact us.