- Collections
About Collections
The Library provides access to all sorts of information resources to support your learning and research. You can search all of the library's collections through the Library Catalogue, or get more information on each type of information resource and how it might be useful to your studies below.
- Using the Library
Find your way
Learn more about the Library as a physical place, find top tips and answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ), find out about the study spaces and services available in the Main, Medical and Nursing & Midwifery Libraries, and if you are not a student or staff member of NUI Galway, you can find out here how to access the Library.
- Help
We're here to help
Library staff provide support, help, and training to enable you to get to grips with the literature of your subject and the Library's resources. We have staff with expertise on information resources in your subject area.
Get help from the Library with your studies, research, or teaching
- 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.
- Search
Search
A single search interface to all collections and content, both physical and digital. It's quick, user-friendly, and a personalised discovery experience.
- About
Peer Review
Peer Review
A publication is considered scholarly if it is authored by academic or professional researchers and targetted at an academic or related audience. Its aim will be to advance knowledge on a topic as well as report on or support research needs. Before being considered for publication most scholarly articles will be refereed or peer-reviewed by experts working largely in the subject field.
This means that the article will undergo an official editorial process that involves review and approval by the author's peers (people who are experts in the same subject area.). Refereeing practices vary between journals. Generally articles are evaluated by two independent assessors, who are looking for originality, validity and quality. This is usually done anonymously.
Why is peer-review important?
The process of peer-review seeks to maintain the quality and integrity of the content published in a particular journal. Your track-record of publication in peer-reviewed journals can be an important factor when applying to funding bodies for research funding.
How do I know if a journal is peer-reviewed?
- Ulrichsweb is a valuable source of information on journal titles. Search this database by journal title and a peer-reviewed journal will have a "refereed" icon
or a “peer-reviewed” icon 
next to its title.
- To limit search results to peer review journals in Ulrichsweb, use the Advanced Search to search by title / subject, click on More Limiters select the Key Feature: Refereed/Peer-reviewed. (The terms Refereed / Peer-reviewed are used interchangeably by Ulrichsweb).
- Alternatively, click on a journal's title for more information about the journal, including whether or not it is peer-reviewed – see Additional Title Details which also gives contact details for the editor.
- Information may also be included in an editor's 'aims' statement at the front of the journal itself.
- Some indexing databases only index the contents of journals that are peer-reviewed. For example Web of Science.
Library
The Library proactively supports and enhances the learning, teaching, and research activities of the University. The Library acts as a catalyst for your success as NUI Galway’s hub for scholarly information discovery, sharing, and publication.
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