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To help in planning your study over the Easter weekend please see below details of the James Hardiman Library  Easter opening hours: Friday 14 April       10.00-18.00 Saturday 15 April   Closed Sunday 16 April     Closed Monday 17 April    10.00-18.00 The Library Reading Room at basement level will be open daily from 07.00-02.30

Update April 5th - Access has been restored to all affected resources. You can access the resources as normal via the relevant links in the library catalogue. We're currently experiencing access problems with Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, and Essential Science Indicators. For Web of Science, the interface can still be searched, but there's no guarantee that content in search results will be as comprehensive as it should be. Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators are both presenting login screens and aren't authorising us at the moment. Technical support for the resources has been contacted, and they are currently working on fixing the issue. We'll update this blog post as events warrant. Apologies for any inconvenience! Library E-Resources Team

  Access to the online 2nd edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Elsevier, 2015) is now available. Fully revised and updated, this new edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences , first published in 2001, comprises over 3,900 articles and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes. Key Features: •Provides authoritative, foundational, interdisciplinary knowledge across the wide range of behavioral and social sciences fields •Discusses history, current trends and future directions •Topics are cross-referenced with related topics and each article highlights further reading Access is available here .   Collection Development  

Before Muintir na Tíre was founded in 1937 by Canon John Hayes, he established a co-operative society, Muintir na Tíre Limited, in 1931. Muintir na Tíre was an agricultural producers co-operative society for farmers and their labourers. I have discovered some records relating to Muintir na Tíre Limited during the appraisal and arranging of the Muintir na Tíre archive. This includes the minute books from 1931 – 1937 and some published material. The minute books of Muintir na Tíre Limited note how Muintir na Tíre Limited was set up, the rules that should be followed, the prices of shares and the title of the organisation. They note the various meetings of the organisation during the years it was active and those who were involved in the organisation.  The first entry in the first minute book is a circular announcing a meeting on March 4 th  1931 “to further consider the matter of setting up an organisation which will embrace every section of Irish Agriculture and...

ARAN has attracted over five million hits (downloads and page views) to date, leaving no doubt that adding your publications to it boosts your citations and increases the visibility of your research. It is the definitive open access showcase for research from NUI Galway. Don’t miss out on the benefits by claiming your publications on IRIS and uploading them to ARAN. Just click on the red button (see above) beside your publications in IRIS  to upload to ARAN or email your publication to   aran@nuigalway.ie  and we’ll upload it for you. Upload the final draft post-refereeing  without the  publisher’s type-setting, formatting, logos and pagination (also known as the  post-print).  We check and adhere to publisher’s policies and explicitly promote and link to your published article. Very little admin is required on your part. For advice and support email  aran@nuigalway.ie Read more about open acc...

" Outside the Walls": Research in the Community Seminar hosted by Special Collections, Hardiman Library,  NUI, Galway Thursday, 6 April, 14.45-17.00  Hardiman Research Building, G011 Speakers: Marie Mannion, (County Galway Heritage Officer), Prof. Noel Wilkins, (Galway Archaeological & Historical Society), Professor Gerry Jennings (Western Family History Association), Dr. Christy Cunniffe, Archaeologist. Panel Discussion facilitated by Dr. Nessa Cronin, Irish Studies.   Places are limited. Admission is free but please register at  https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/outside-the-walls-researchers-in-the-community-tickets-33074564914 or emai l marie.boran@nuigalway.ie . 

The following database trials will expire on Friday, 31 March :   Electronic Enlightenment Kanopy (online films and documentaries) Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History   These resources can be accessed via the database trials page. Please complete the database trial feedback form provided for each resource of interest. Collection Development

The recent stepping away from active political life by Martin McGuinness and from his role as Deputy First Minister, signalled a polemic shift in the political landscape in Northern Ireland, His passing today, aged 66, has further intensified the consideration of his life and role in Northern Ireland, and his journey from conflict to peace, over many decades. The perhaps unknown role that Martin McGuinness played, over many years, in negotiating a peaceful and sustained end to conflict in Northern Ireland can be seen within the archive of mediator Brendan Duddy. Brendan Duddy was born in Derry on 10 June 1936. He became a businessman in his native city, and by the early 1970s he owned and managed two fish-and-chip shops, one in Beechwood Avenue (Creggan) and another in William Street. Duddy knew Martin McGuinness in the 1960s when McGuinness worked for a supplier company delivering burgers to Duddy's shops - at a time when McGuinness's interest in politics was not yet kindled. ...