- 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
Open Publishing
About
Open Publishing seeks to grant free and open online access to academic information.
Initially, the Open Access movement focused mainly on journal articles and the business model of journals themselves, giving rise to Open Access journals. However, the broader concept of Open Publishing includes other valuable research outputs such as monographs, data or code.
Pillar at University of Galway
Unrestricted and Open Access to a study’s findings and the journal articles, books or other publications arising from the study is at the heart of Open Scholarship. However, much research remains closed, despite the obvious benefits of Open Publishing. The University of Galway is committed to increase Open Access to our research publications. Here are some highlights:
- We are negotiating Publishing deals with publishers that enable our University of Galway authors to publish Gold Open Access without payments. An important example is the deal with Elsevier.
- Our policy Open Access to Research Outputs commits University of Galway to Open Access and articulates expectations on our researchers.
- The ARAN (Access to Research at University of Galway) repository enables Green Open Access. The Library also negotiates Open Access deals with publishers so our researchers can publish Gold Open Access with no cost to the author.
- If you have any questions regarding Open Access get in touch with us by emailing.
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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 University of Galway’s hub for scholarly information discovery, sharing, and publication.
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