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The Institute of Phyiscs has published the complete scientific documentation of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine and detectors – the world’s largest experimental facility in particle physics, started up on September 10. See the Journal of Instrumentation at www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.lhc/jinst for more information. In addition, the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the LHC’s switch-on poses no threat to mankind. See Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0954-3899/35/11/115004 for more information.

We are delighted to announce the availability of the JSTOR Ireland Collection - an interdisciplinary resource of materials from and about Ireland. At its expected completion in 2009, it will contain a minimum of 2,500 manuscripts, 200 monographs, and 75 ceased and currently publishing journals with moving walls between 1 and 5 years. Complementing JSTOR's existing collections, the Ireland Collection adds resources across the arts, humanities, and sciences in disciplines such as music, art, history, literature, archaeology, mathematics, and biology. Materials span from the 1780s to the present.

The full report of the 2008 Research Support Survey is now at: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/services/Library_Publications/index.html This report describes and analyses the results of a survey of researchers at National University of Ireland, Galway, conducted by the James Hardiman Library in April 2008. The survey aimed to find out more about the habits and needs of researchers in using and finding information, and levels of satisfaction with Library collections and services. The members of the Survey Working Group are- Burke, Kathleen Connolly, Niamh Costello, John Coughlan, Rosarie, Cox, John (Working Group Chair) Finnan, Trish Greenfield, Laurie Kelly, Hugo McSweeney, Niall Mulligan, Jane Quinlan, Fiona Richardson, Jonathan Walsh, Niamh

Have you struggled in the past to find Archaeology material with strange shelf numbers like 571:613.2 or 571(119.7)500-011? The good news is that during the summer, library staff have undertaken a project to convert these strange numbers (officially called the Universal Decimal Classification system) to the easier to use system of Dewey Decimal Classification system used throughout the rest of the Library. The Archaeology books are therefore now to be found near the History, Early Civilisation and Classics books at shelf numbers between 931 and 939 towards the back of Floor One. Please check the Library Catalogue for the exact location of the book you want.

Cambridge University Press has announced the release of further enhancements to Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) . With the latest release, there have been a number of developments, including: Social bookmarking services, which allow users to save URL links of web pages they want to remember or share. Users can now bookmark links from journal homepages and article abstracts via such services as del.icio.us, Connotea., and Bibsonomy. CJO is also fully enabled for users of the CiteULike service. Enhanced search facilities , which include: Cite Search for titles matches the title of a journal as the user types; context-sensitive spelling correction suggests alternative spellings to words not matched in the initial search; automatic saved searches with re-run and edit facilities; and the ability to search throughout the CJO website using the ‘quick search’ option. Improved access : - users can now to log in directly from the abstract page of an article. Also, a Widget can be downloaded fr...

We now have access to Bibliografia de la Literatura Espanola A resource for scholars of Spanish literature, Bibliografía de la Literatura Española is a comprehensive bibliography of all related documentation published in any language. It covers monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, congress proceedings, and other miscellaneous material. The collection provides bibliographic information on a wide range of subject areas: literary theory, literary genres, popular literature, Hispanism, bibliographies, and authors. The database features not only editions of their works, but also translated editions and critical studies. Bibliografía de la Literatura Española can be searched by keyword, title, subject, author or reviewer, publication details, journal and publication year, or any combination of these terms.

The era of grand estates in western Ireland has been captured in a unique project by a team of researchers at NUI Galway. The comprehensive electronic database and archive devoted to landed estates and gentry houses in Connacht, c. 1700-1914, was launched recently at the University by Minister of State, Dr Martin Mansergh, T.D. The database contains references to over 1450 houses and some 1,650 estates. The aim of the resource is to assist and support researchers working on the social, economic, political and cultural history of Connacht from c.1700 to 1914. The project involved the distillation and collation of data from a broad range of historical sources, and its concise codification on an estate/name basis. According to NUI Galway’s Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, who was Project Principal: “For the first time ever researchers will have ready access to a comprehensive database of sources relating to the world of the landed society of Connacht from the end of the seventeenth century ...

Issue 32 of the Library Newsletter is now available http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/services/news_and_events/newsletters.html