- Collections
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.
- Using the Library
Find your way
Find out about what Library services you can avail of, take our 360 degree Library tour and navigate your way around the Library. Each section includes a description of services available and allows you to become familiar with the Library before you visit us.
- We Can 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.
- 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.
- 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
Alerts
Library Systems Alerts
3 April 2023, 10:40
IdP Restored
HEAnet have updated us that Edugate/IdP services are fully restored, and all affected clients should see services back online.
3 April 2023, 9:31
IdP Outage
We have been informed by Information Solutions and Services that there is currently an issue with the University IdP services due to an incident in HEAnet. IdP services are responsible for authentication and logging in and accessing electronic resources and services provided by the Library. Users may see issues authenticating using Edugate at this time. The HEAnet Systems Team is investigating and working on restoring services, and we will provide updates as soon as we have more information.
31 March 2023, 17:15
Lexis & Nexis Unavailable
We are aware that Lexis Nexis is currently unavailable due to a "Login Service Security Error", we have contacted both the University of Galway Information Solutions and Services team as well as Lexis Nexis. We will update this entry as soon as more information is available.