The extensive electronic collection is made available through a combination of library subscriptions, open access and membership of the IReL (Irish Research eLibrary) initiative.
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Electronic Resources
The Library has access to over 714,000 e-journals, 200 databases and 550,000 ebooks. To read electronic resources off campus, login using '' Off-Campus Login ".
Copyright of resources is owned by the Publisher except as noted otherwise on individual articles. No material from the online journals or ebooks may be substantially or systematically reproduced, re-engineered, redistributed, resold or sub-licenced in any way; no part of the journals or ebooks may be supplied or distributed to an unauthorised user. Some journals and books are only available in print.
For a comprehensive search of all the Library’s electronic and print resources use LibrarySearch
Click here to access Journal Search
Click here to access the A-Z of Databases. If off campus login for Off Campus Access
If you experience any difficulties using this service, please contact Library Support
MURAL - MU Research Archive Library
To access Maynooth University ePrint and eTheses Archive please click here. An ePrint is an electronic copy of an academic paper. ePrints can be either preprints (a working paper or the version of a paper submitted for peer review) or postprints (the final peer reviewed version, which has been accepted for publishing) or similar material such as book chapters, conference papers, working papers, technical reports and so on. Maynooth University ePrints Archive is an institutional repository of ePrints which showcases the research output of Maynooth University and St. Patrick's College staff and postgraduate students. This open access ensures the widest possible dissemination and impact for our work in Maynooth and contributes to the growing body of research literature that is now freely available online. Hardcopy Theses are listed in LibrarySearch.
List of top 10 authors downloaded in ePrints February 2015
| Author | Download Count |
| Farrell, Ronan | 589 |
| Timoney, Joseph | 471 |
| Leith , Douglas | 445 |
| Lazzarini, Victor | 298 |
| Shorten, Robert | 280 |
| Duffy, Patrick | 246 |
| Jeffers, Gerry | 235 |
| Huisinga, Wilhelm | 191 |
| Sweeney, John | 184 |
| El-Tom, Abdullahi | 180 |
| Fealy, Rowan | 173 |
Top 10 items downloaded from ePrints February 2015
- Methodology: Analysing Qualitative Data and Writing up your Findings (Ryan, Anne B)
- Post-Positivist Approaches to Research (Ryan, Anne B)
- Coping, affective distress and psychosocial adjustment among people with traumatic upper limb amputations (Desmond, Deirdre M)
- Introduction: Irish Travellers: Culture & Ethnicity (O Siochain, Seamas and McCann, May and Ruane, Joseph)
- What is Human Dignity? (Lebech, Mette)
- Unmarried mothers: the legislative context in Ireland, 1921 (Graham, Ann-Marie)
- Synthesis of imidazole schiff base ligands, their silver (I) complexes and their activities against candida albicans (Tallon, Theresa M)
- Problems with databases and the XML solution (Keating, John G. and Clancy, Denis and O'Connor, Thomas and Lyons, Marian)
- Empowering Children Through Circle Time: An Illumination of Practice (Collins, Bernie)
- Ireland and the Waterloo campaign of 1815 (Molloy, Peter)
Contact Information
Any correspondence concerning this specific repository should be sent to S.RedmondMaloco@mu.ie.
Kindles
Our Kindles now have even more titles, more course work and more general reading available. You can borrow a kindle for one week from our Information Desk.
We will of course ensure that there are hardcopy versions available for students too, so if you can’t get your hands on a kindle, don’t despair! All Kindle titles will show up in the online catalogue, just like their hardcopy versions.
Remember - by using the Kindle, you can borrow multiple books for just one week loan. If you have any questions on the Kindles please contact Louise Saults in the Library.
IReL - Irish Research eLibrary
IReL provides information on the Content of the Irish Research eLibrary initiative, as well as background, history, membership and latest news.
Newspapers on the Internet
A collection of regional, national and worldwide newspapers. The Library does subscribe to a small number of titles but most are freely available on the internet and a subscription may be needed for full access.
Subscriptions
| 19th Century British Newspapers | It includes 48 national, regional and local publications taken directly from the extensive holdings of the British Library. Featuring key British newspapers selected from throughout the United Kingdom, it provides a comprehensive view of British and world news, culture and society during the 19th century. |
| Irish Newspaper Archive | It consists of digitised Irish news publications from 1763 onwards. It currently includes: the Freeman's Journal, Irish Independent, Sunday Independent, Irish Farmers Journal and some regional newspapers. Some of these titles are incomplete but further digitisation of these titles and the addition of new titles is ongoing. |
| Irish Times via ProQuest | 1995 to current, with today's issue being loaded at 8am CET (Central European Time). Provides access to current articles in pdf format. Some content e.g. death notices, advertisements, supplements may be excluded. |
| Irish Times (1859- 1 year moving wall) and The Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958) via ProQuest | This historical newspaper provides researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. |
| Irish Times.Com | Latest issue of the Irish Times but limited access to current articles due to paywall. |
| Le Monde Diplomatique | Access to full-text archive from 1954 to date |
| LexisNexis - News & Business | Provides access to full-text Irish newspaper articles. Under the Select Sources select Irish Publications. Can select individual newspapers or groups of newspapers to be searched. Newspaper coverage includes: Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, and some regional newspapers. Also provides access to newspapers worldwide. |
| Sunday Times | Access to full-text articles from 1996 to current issue. |
| Times (London) | Access to full-text articles in the London Times from 1992 to current issue. |
| Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 | Provides access to the full text of 200 years of the Times (London). Users can search the full-text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials and advertising. |
| UK/Eire Reference Centre | UK/EIRE Reference Centre™ combines British & Irish sources (including: magazines, newspapers, and reference books) with international sources to create the most complete collection of full-text research publications for UK/Irish secondary education. Magazine coverage includes full text of publications such as New Statesman, PC Magazine, National Geographic, and many more. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The Times (London), The Sun, The Daily Mail, etc. Reference book full-text coverage includes: The Columbia Encyclopedia, and many others. In addition, this database provides hundreds of thousands of photos, maps and flags. |
| Zeit | Access to selected articles only from 1996 onwards. Click on Archive to view back issues. |
National
| Belfast Telegraph | Back issues available from Archive Service from 1995 to present. Articles for the past 7 days are free, articles over 7 days old are chargeable. |
| Irish Examiner | You will need to register to access the full-text of the current issue. Back issues from 13th December 1997 onwards are available from http://archives.tcm.ie/, no registration needed. |
| Irish Independent | Today's paper and some previous issues. See also the Irish Newspaper Archives for digitised back issues of this newspaper. |
| Irish Times via ProQuest | 1995 to current, with today's issue being loaded at 8am CET (Central European Time). Provides access to current articles in pdf format. Some content e.g. death notices, advertisements, supplements may be excluded. |
| Irish Times (1859- 1 year moving wall) and The Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958) via ProQuest | This historical newspaper provides researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. |
| Irish Times.Com | Latest issue of the Irish Times but limited access to current articles due to paywall. |
| Sunday Independent | Today's paper and some previous issues. See also the Irish Newspaper Archives for digitised back issues of this newspaper. |
| UK/Eire Reference Centre | UK/EIRE Reference Centre™ combines British & Irish sources (including: magazines, newspapers, and reference books) with international sources to create the most complete collection of full-text research publications for UK/Irish secondary education. Magazine coverage includes full text of publications such as New Statesman, PC Magazine, National Geographic, and many more. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The Times (London), The Sun, The Daily Mail, etc. Reference book full-text coverage includes: The Columbia Encyclopedia, and many others. In addition, this database provides hundreds of thousands of photos, maps and flags. |
Regional
| Anglo-Celt | Selective articles only. See also the Irish Newspaper Archives for digitised back issues of this newspaper. |
| Bray People | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| Carlow Nationalist | Back issues from the 1 January 1999 onwards are freely available from http://archives.tcm.ie/. No registration needed to access full-text. |
| Carlow People | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| Connacht Telegraph | See the Irish Newspaper Archives for digitised back issues of this newspaper. |
| Connacht Tribune | See the Irish Newspaper Archives for digitised back issues of this newspaper. |
| Corkman | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| Drogheda Independent | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| Echo | Access to current news only |
| Fingal Independent | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| Gorey Guardian | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| Kerryman | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| Kildare Nationalist | Back issues from 1 February 1999 onwards are available from http://archives.tcm.ie/, no registration needed. |
| Kilkenny People | Selective articles only. |
| Laois Nationalist | Back issues from 1st February 1999 onwards are available from http://archives.tcm.ie/, no registration needed. |
| Leinster Leader | Access to the newspaper from 18th March 2010 to current. It is username and password protected, apply to library.information@nuim.ie for details. |
| Leitrim Observer | See the Irish Newspaper Archives for digitised back issues of this newspaper. |
| Meath Cronicle | See also the Irish Newspaper Archives for digitised back issues of this newspaper. |
| Nenagh Guardian | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| New Ross Standard | Access to current news only. |
| Newry Democrat | Back issues from the 3 September 2001 onwards are freely available from http://archives.tcm.ie/. No registration needed to access full-text. |
| Offaly Independent | Selective articles only. |
| Sligo Champion | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| Sligo Weekender | Back issues from the 21st November 2000 onwards are freely available from http://archives.tcm.ie/. No registration needed to access full-text. |
| Southern Star | Today's paper. See also the Irish Newspaper Archives for digitised back issues of this newspaper. |
| The Argus | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| Tuam Herald | Today's paper. See also the Irish Newspaper Archives for digitised back issues of this newspaper. |
| UK/Eire Reference Centre | UK/EIRE Reference Centre™ combines British & Irish sources (including: magazines, newspapers, and reference books) with international sources to create the most complete collection of full-text research publications for UK/Irish secondary education. Magazine coverage includes full text of publications such as New Statesman, PC Magazine, National Geographic, and many more. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The Times (London), The Sun, The Daily Mail, etc. Reference book full-text coverage includes: The Columbia Encyclopedia, and many others. In addition, this database provides hundreds of thousands of photos, maps and flags. |
| Waterford News & Star | Waterford News & Star Back issues from the 4th December 2000 onwards are freely available from http://archives.tcm.ie/. No registration needed to access full-text. |
| Western People | Back issues from the 30th July 1997 onwards are freely available from http://archives.tcm.ie/. No registration needed to access full-text. |
| Westmeath Examiner | Selective articles only. |
| Westmeath Independent | Selective articles only. |
| Wexford People | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
| Wicklow People | Today's paper and some previous issues. |
Worldwide
| LexisNexis - News & Business | Provides access to full-text Irish and worldwide newspaper articles. To find a list of newspapers by Country: Click on Sources, then Browse Sources. Select by Publication Type (1); Filter by Country (2); Select a category to view sources (3), click on News, then Newspapers. Select newspaper by clicking on box. To search that newspaper, click on OK Continue (far right, below Find a Source). To search across all newspapers, start by selecting Search and then Power Search. |
| UK/Eire Reference Centre | UK/EIRE Reference Centre™ combines Irish, British & international sources to create a collection of full-text research publications. Magazine coverage includes full text of publications such as New Statesman, PC Magazine, National Geographic. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The Times (London), The Sun, The Daily Mail. |
Open Access Resources
Open access (OA) refers to unrestricted online access to articles published in scholarly journals, and also increasingly to book chapters or monographs.
Maynooth University Mandate
Maynooth University policy is that for all research and scholarly publications, which arise in whole or in part from research carried out at the University, and subject to the copyright and archiving policies of the publisher, the publication contents should be made available at the earliest possible date through the Maynooth University Open Access Repository. The Maynooth University policy has taken effect from 6 November, 2017 and will be reviewed no later than May 2022.
RIAN is the outcome of a sectoral higher education project supported by the Irish Government's 'Strategic Innovation Fund'. Project planning was carried out by the seven Irish university libraries, DCU, NUIG, Maynooth University, TCD, UCC, UCD, UL and was supported by the Irish Universities Association (IUA).
Links to other National Institutional Repositories:
- Dublin Business School IR - DBS eSource (Dublin Business School Open Access Repository)
- Dublin City University IR - DORAS (DCU Online Research Access Service)
- Dublin Institute of Technology IR - ARROW (Archiving Research Resources on the Web)
- Dundalk Institute of Technology IR - STÓR (Dundalk Institute of Technology’s Open Access Repository)
- Health Service Executive IR - LENUS (The Irish Health Repository)
- Mary Immaculate College IR - Mary Immaculate College Institutional Repository & Digital Archive
- Maynooth University IR - Maynooth University ePrint and eTheses Archive
- NUIG IR - ARAN (Access to Research at NUIG)
- Royal College of Surgeons Ireland IR - e-publications
- Teagasc IR - T-Stór (Teagasc’s Open Access Repository)
- Trinity College Dublin IR - TARA (Trinity's Access to Research Archive)
- University College Cork IR - CORA (Cork Open Research Archive)
- University College Dublin IR - Research_Online@UCD
- University Limerick IR
- Waterford Institute of Technology IR
DART-Europe
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).
DOAJ
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
DRIVER
The DRIVER infrastructure has now been merged with the OpenAIRE infrastructure www.openaire.eu to create a new platform able to support many more advanced services.
Open Access Library is an academic search engine and publisher. You can download research papers for free and submit your paper to it. It is a shared academic database. It is a handy tool which helps researchers performing their research and helps students with their studies.
OpenAIRE aims to support the implementation of Open Access in Europe. It provides the means to promote and realise the widespread adoption of the Open Access Policy, as set out by the ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access and the Open Access pilot launched by the European Commission.
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication.
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents. To date OpenDoar includes over 2,000 repositories.
Sherpa/Romeo
Provides a searchable database of publishers’ copyright and selfarchiving policies for pre-prints and post-prints.
WorldCat
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.
Maynooth University links of interest:
Examinations Office
Graduate Studies
Research
Research Information System
For further information or queries, please contact: Suzanne Redmond Maloco
RIAN - Open Access Irish Research Publications
RIAN is the outcome of a sectoral higher education project supported by the Irish Government's 'Strategic Innovation Fund'. Project planning was carried out by the seven Irish university libraries, DCU, NUIG, Maynooth University, TCD, UCC, UCD, UL and was supported by the Irish Universities Association (IUA).
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