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 The Library is currently trialling the following two databases   AM Explorer  and  AM Research Methods until the end of September. It is important to receive your feedback on these resources as it will inform our decisions going forward. With that in mind we would appreciate you taking the time to fill in the following feedback forms about the various trials after you have tried the resources. Feedback Form for AM Explorer Feedback Form for AM Research Methods   Designed as a tool to support students of the humanities and social sciences,   AM   Research Methods  introduces the key approaches to working with source materials and historical evidence. Through AM Explorer, you can now search millions of pages of primary sources spanning the 15th – 21st centuries, including a wealth of new content added every year.

In this Open Voices blog post we are talking to Rory Coyne about Open Science training! Rory is a PhD student in Health Psychology at the University of Galway. He completed the Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at University of Galway in 2020, and the Master of Science in Health Psychology at University of Galway in 2021. His research interests are in the areas of digital health, psychophysiology, and human-machine interaction.   For his current PhD research, he is investigating drivers’ physiological responses to automated driving. He is also actively involved in the promotion of Open Science practices in research, and is a committee member on the European HealthPsychology Society’s Open Science Special Interest Group .   Hardy: Hi Rory, thank you for talking to me. Can you please introduce yourself briefly? Rory : Sure. My name is Rory Coyne. I'm in the second year of my PhD in the School of Psychology at the University of Galway. My PhD research is centred around measu...

  In this blog post Open Scholarship Librarian  Hardy Schwamm  looks at progress of Open Access publishing at the University of Galway, ambitions and pathways forward.  This post aims to summarise where we are with regards to Open Access publishing at the University of Galway and where we are heading in the coming years. As a disclaimer I should say that below relates to our publications in peer-reviewed periodicals and does not cover research published in monographs or educational material. The state of Open Access at the University of Galway    Our Open Access ambition(s) Our ambitions are informed by Open University of Galway , one of the institution’s four strategic values, the Library’s strategic theme of Opening Scholarship and the national Open Access goal (articulated by the National Open Research Forum ): “ By 2030 Ireland will have implemented a sustainable and inclusive course for achieving 100% open access to research publications. ” Cle...