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What is known? What isn’t known? Knowable Magazine , the digital publication from Annual Reviews , seeks to make that knowledge accessible to all. Knowable Magazine explores the real-world significance of scholarly work through a journalistic lens. It reports on the current state of play across a wide variety of fields — from agriculture to high-energy physics; biochemistry to water security; the origins of the universe to psychology. Review articles written by leading scholars from the 50 Annual Reviews journals serve as springboards for stories in Knowable Magazine. Through in-depth features, explainers, articles, essays, interviews, infographics, slideshows, and comics, Knowable Magazine presents insights from research to a broader audience. Knowable Magazine content is thoroughly researched, reported, edited, copy-edited and fact-checked. Access to Knowable Magazine is available here. Collection Development

The AWC is pleased to announce that thanks to a generous grant provided by the Dean of Students, Dr Michelle Millar, we will be able to open in July and August for special workshops, write-in sessions, and one-on-one consultations.  Booking and Time-table.  The following workshops will be available for booking from 28 June via the library training events portal. (The workshops will take place during the following times: Mon 11-1 or 3-5, Tue 11-1 or 3-5, Friday 11-1 or 3-5) 1. Dissertation Write-in  2. General Write-in  3. Using Sources Correctly 4. Editing Techniques 5. Academic Writing and Dyslexia 6. Reading Difficult Texts 7. Writing and Exams 8. Time Management, Writing, and the Pomodoro Technique.  One-on-one appointments and phone consultations will be available on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. To book, simply email awctutors@gmail.com stating your preferred time. We'd love to hear from those of you working on repeat assi...

Please see the message below from OVID RE the PsycINFO reload: The PsycINFO database will be reloaded by OVID. The reload will implement the latest APA Thesaurus Tool. We expect it to be live on Tuesday 28 May, 2019 .  Change to MP searching: By customer request, we are adding the PsycINFO MesH (MH) field to the .MP field list for unqualified searches. After the reload, Ovid Advanced Search will change its default fields for PsycINFO to: [mp=title, abstract, heading word, table of contents, key concepts, original title, tests & measures, MeSH] Please note, this change may affect (increase) the results output of existing saved searches and AutoAlerts when MesH terms are used in .mp searches. APA Thesaurus changes (already in place) As announced on 16 March 2019, Ovid has applied new APA thesaurus tool in advance of the reload. The following changes have been implemented already: 25 existing subject headings* are being replaced in the new APA thes...

The Cambridge History of Ireland is now available online via the Library catalogue: The Cambridge History of Ireland. Volume I, 600-1550 The Cambridge History of Ireland. Volume II, 1550-1730 The Cambridge History of Ireland. Volume III, 1730-1880 The Cambridge History of Ireland. Volume IV,  1880 to the present Diarmuid Ferriter, (Lecturer in Modern Irish History, UCD) has described The Cambridge History of Ireland as: "a collective scholarly endeavour by 100 contributors..., covering the Irish experience from the year 600 to the present and bursting with provocative, intelligent analysis and accessible narratives. The volumes continue a tradition of historians collectively stocktaking, distilling and pronouncing on the current state of their areas of expertise."  ( The Irish Times , Dec. 01, 2018) The Library also holds print copies of all 4 volumes of The Cambridge History of Ireland , please click here for full details. Collection Development

To mark Seachtain na Gaeilge why not explore some of the Library's print, online and audio-visual resources which may be useful for Irish language learners at various levels: Spoken Irish/An Ghaeilge Labhartha: Irish conversation Colloquial Irish the complete course for beginners Speaking Irish = An Ghaeilge Bheo: take your language skills beyond basics Learning Irish Irish Grammar/Gramadach na Gaeilge: Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook Gramadach gan stró Irish Grammar You Really Need to Know Quick Guide ; Irish Grammar Dictionaries/Foclóirí: Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla English-Irish Dictionary The Oxford pocket Irish dictionary :Gaeilge-Béarla = Irish-English The Oxford pocket Irish dictionary Béarla-Gaeilge = English-Irish Collection Development

Our access to Scopus is currently down, and this has been reported. We are hoping to have access restored later today (14th), though it may be tomorrow (Friday 15th) before normal service has resumed. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

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...