The HardiBlog

Open Access in the News. The finer details of 3 rd level education policy and spending don't often make news in the main stream media, however when the Harvard University Faculty Advisory Council issued a memo to all faculty stating that journal subscription costs were " fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive" several articles appeared in the press including stories in The Guardian , The Atlantic and Time Magazine . The Harvard memo has drawn attention to academic journal subscription costs and one of the academic community's responses to these costs: Open access publishing . "Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder."  The library at NUI Galway helps facilitate open access publishing through our institutional repository ARAN .   Many funders including Science Fo...

The following services will be unavailable from 17.30 on Friday 1 June 2012 until 17.30 on Saturday 2 June 2012 due to scheduled maintenance activity. James Hardiman Library Website The Library Catalogue ARAN - Access to Research at NUI Galway Digitised Archives Normal circulation activities will not be affected and users will still be able to borrow and return items.

Words and their Meanings: A Visual Exhibition  Arranged by the Academic Writing Centre 1-22 June  James Hardiman Library Foyer Official launch on 15 June- all welcome. RSVP here

Repeating? Post-grad? It sucks to be stuck inside while the sun shines.   That's why we're open until  10pm Mon-Thurs.  Full opening hours are on the Library website .

It is now University Policy that final year students will not be eligible to graduate if they have outstanding debts with the University. This includes: Library fines Missing books Books still checked out on Patron accounts To avoid any disruption to the graduation process please pay your Library fines immediately and return all books to the Library.  To make the process easy you can pay your fines online by following these steps: Go to  https://printcredit.nuigalway.ie/webcentre/Login.aspx Enter your Student ID and Password Top up your Account, using Visa, Mastercard or Laser Click Library Fines Enter Amount to Pay and Pay Now Alternatively please note that you can pay your fines in the following ways: In person at the Customer Services Desk At the Top-Up machines in the Library For more information, please contact library@nuigalway.ie or  091- 493005

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) is a multi-year global digitization and publishing programme focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century (1789-1914), with archives releasing incrementally beginning in spring 2012. Four archives each year are planned for 2013 and 2014 and will take a global perspective on the long nineteenth century. The 3 archives below have just been released and are searchable via the current trial at http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/collections/databases/databasetrials/databasetrialfeedback/trialfeedback-ncco/#d.en.20970 -Asia and the West: Diploma and Currency Exchange -British Politics and Society -European Literature 1790-1840 The Corvey Collection The trial ends 31 May. Please take the time to fill out a feedback form to help us evaluate our resources. Please note that not all database trials are accessible from off-campus.

We are delighted to tell you that our e-journal linking service SFX has been restored following a technical problem.  This affected the Find E-Journal service as well as any links from our catalogue to e-journals.  Profuse apologies for any inconvenience caused by this short downtime.

Could you do without the expense of Library fines? Remember to renew your books on time- There are many ways to do this... Online , at the Customer Services Desk, at Self-Check Machines, over the phone- 091-493399 or by email-  library@nuigalway.ie 50 cent per day for main library books €2 per day for three day loans €4 per day for one day loans (ie 24 hours) €2 per day for videos, DVDs and audiotapes