We are delighted to launch the new look Library website today, merging the library content and menus you know and love with the sleek and familiar design of the wider University website. The blue button in the top right corner …
I find this time of year trying. True, the Sun is out and the weather warm (often too warm if you are chained to a keyboard indoors!), but the Library can feel near abandoned at times and our coffee shop is closed. Yet, there are still plenty of people studying here and it is a haven for any postgraduate seeking a quiet place to settle and focus, so if you enjoy peace and quiet, space to spread out, and freedom to concentrate without distractions, this is a great time to wander over to the Library and get stuck into some serious study.
We are delighted to report subscriptions to the archives of two more exciting magazines for the coming academic year (2025/26): The Irish Times 1859 – 2022 This historical newspaper provides easily searchable firsthand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, …
Accessible EBSCO ebooks are coming this June and bringing with them a whole host of benefits.
Don’t just change the font size, alter the spacing of letters and words and the gaps between lines of text in the EBSCO ebooks you read to make them more comfortable on the eye and, for anyone with dyslexia, easier to read.
As we round into the last straight and head towards the finish line for the academic year (exam season for most people), time for many people becomes a peculiarly precious commodity. If you need to find something (a book, a fact, an image, a few dozen choice scholarly articles … really anything) for your assignments, or you need a helping hand with your referencing (and who doesn’t!) stop by the Library Help Desk between 11 am – 1 pm, Monday-Friday (except Bank Holiday Mondays – there are a couple of those coming up in May!) or chat with a librarian 24/7 online through the Library website.
From 1 May 2025, our main ebook provider, Ebook Central, will change its default ebook format from PDF to the more modern and accessible EPUB format. EPUB is a flexible and screen reader accessible format that presents text, images, videos, links and other embedded interactive elements in a screen reader friendly format.
We are excited to announce a month of trial access to Ms Magazine (from its inception in 1972 onwards), ending 22 May 2025. You may need to be connected to the University network using the GlobalProtect VPN to access this trial.
While undergraduate and Masters degree dissertations may offer helpful insights and can serve as treasure troves of useful references to support your own research, doctoral theses are considered scholarly publications fit to be referenced in their own right. The Library has a large collection of doctoral theses from past students, most of which are available online, with some older theses still held in print. Theses from other universities are held in various other online databases.
It is often helpful to see what “good” looks like, and every year, students contact the Library to ask how they can get hold of exemplar copies of past dissertations for their course. For many courses, exemplar dissertations are available on Moodle but a selection of student dissertations are held in the Library’s online edissertations database.
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