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About Collections
The Library provides access to all sorts of information resources to support your learning and research. You can search all of our collections through the Library Catalogue, or learn more about different types of information resources below.
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- Digital Scholarship
Digital Scholarship
The Library welcomes opportunities to advance our Digital Scholarship. Our areas of contribution include content, technology, infrastructure, partnership and the practice-based expertise in our team.
- Open Scholarship
Open Scholarship
The Library supports the practice of research, education and knowledge exchange to enable open collaboration and learning.
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- About
Digital Scholarship
The Library welcomes opportunities to advance our Digital Scholarship Enablement Strategy. Our areas of contribution include content, technology, infrastructure, partnership and the practice-based expertise in our team.
Digital Scholarship News
Library Awarded Project as part of Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030
Fri, 02 Dec 2022 10:02:00 +0000
The National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030 was launched 21 November by the National Open Research Forum (NORF). The University of Galway was awarded €220,000 to lead Action 2 on Open Access (OA) Repository Assessment and Alignment. This work is a key project to lead the national transition to open research as part of a national action plan.Open access repositories are typically operated
Digital Scholarship – an Irish and Galway context
Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:56:00 +0000
Digital Scholarship is an umbrella term for modern scholarship using digital methods, tools, or approaches. It is used to define a set of functions and services that enable newer forms of scholarship in universities, cultural institutions, and other research institutions. This is often within the digital arena and can encompass: library focused research enablement, open publishing, digital
Minute Books of Galway Town Commissioners (1890-1909)
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:45:00 +0000
The NUI Galway Library is digitising volumes of Galway Corporation Records. Galway Corporation Records feature minute books, statutes, laws, and the different corporation records taken in Galway since the 1400s. Digitising these records shows us what decisions and laws have shaped Galway and gives insight into how Galway has formed into the place it is today.This blog post is about the Minute
Recently added ARAN open access research output
- A palaeoceanographic investigation of abrupt climate change in the eastern north Atlantic Under different boundary conditions
- Addressing the needs of marginalised young people through school-based catch-up interventions during COVID-19: A case study from Ireland
- Lectin microarray profiling demonstrates equivalent global glycosylation for whey protein ingredients enriched with ¿-lactalbumin and milk fat globule membrane
- A public value perspective on tax administration in a developing country: A multistakeholder view of the Nigerian experience