MU's Research Week 2024 takes place on the week of 21st of October and coincides. The Library is delighted to co-ordinate with the University on preparing a programme of talks and exhibitions. We will have a blend of onsite and online events and they will be recorded where possible. These talks are also be listed in the overall Research Week programme of the University available soon.
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MU's Research Week 2023 takes place on the week of 23 October and coincides with Open Access Week. The Library is delighted to co-ordinate with the University on preparing a programme of talks and exhibitions. We will have a blend of onsite and online events and they will be recorded where possible. These talks are also be listed in the overall Research Week programme of the University available HERE.
Programme
Exhibition
Daily
Six Wonders of the Printed World Exhibition
A selection of some of the rarest books in the Russell Library
A new exhibit for Research Week shines a light on the most exceptional period of book publishing through a showcase of six items which were recently catalogued from the rare book collections of St. Patrick’s Pontifical University held the Russell Library. These six treasures are the only known recorded texts of their kind in Ireland.
Incunabula are books printed prior to 1501 during the earliest period of typography when Johannes Gutenberg developed his printing press in Germany in the mid-15th century. The invention of printing transformed the ways in which knowledge was transmitted and received. These early printed books offer insights into the evolution of printing and the popularisation of certain texts.
The Russell Library is privileged to hold over 50 of these extraordinary books, which includes a 1481 summer edition of Jacobus de Voragine's Der Heiligen Leben printed in Urach – an exceptionally rare copy and the earliest printed Bible in the collection from 1482.
The exhibit will be on display in the Russell Library throughout Research Week during our opening hours (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday -10:00-12:30 & 14:00-16:30)
For more details, please contact (01) 7083890 or [email protected]
Please note that the Russell Library is not currently wheelchair accessible.
You can also view the digital exhibition HERE
Events and Webinars
Monday 23 October 1pm - 2pm
Launch of the Digital Library
Multiple speakers
MU Library has been engaged in a project to develop a Digital Library in order to provide online access to some of wonderful collections of Maynooth University and St Patrick’s Pontifical University.
We are delighted to launch the Digital Library during Research Week 2023 on Monday 23rd October 2023 from 1-2pm. Join us for a light lunch in Training room E, MU Library and hear about the importance of access to online collections for research and to view the Digital Library itself.
These are the collections/part-collections we plan to have available in the Digital Library on launch day.
Bloomfield Maps (Loughton and Redwood estates)
Kerry Letters
John Sadleir Archive
L’Essais de Michel de Montaigne (Sub collection curated by John O’Brien)
Kilcock Land Leases
Ua Maoileoin Collection
A True History (Translated from the Greek)
Salamanca (Small selection)
Of course, it will be grown over time in collaboration with our campus partners and, we hope, will become a valuable research tool and gateway for anyone interested in our rich and unique special collections.
Tuesday 24 October 11am - 12noon
HEANET and ICHEC Research Services Roadshow
Multiple speakers
In this session HEAnet and ICHEC will present the services and initiatives available to support researchers and research support staff.
In the case of HEAnet, we will speak about network & cloud services, opportunities for collaboration with researchers, piloting new services to support research, opportunities for access to funding and initiatives to support Open Science. For example, through this work, Irish institutes have benefitted from ~2M Euros funding from EU since 2022.
In the case of ICHEC, there will be overview of activities and services in training and outreach, performance engineering and novel technologies. And finally, a run-through of resources available to researchers in Ireland through ICHEC's National Service, which include access to High Performance Computing and technical support and advice.
You can view the recording HERE
Wednesday 25 October 11 - 11:30am
From Dust to Digital: An Introduction to MU Library’s digital archival collections.
Ciara Joyce, Archivist, Special Collections & Archives
An introduction to some of the fascinating collections now available on the digital library. Their history, the selection process and what the future holds.
You can view the recording HERE
Wednesday 25 October 2 - 2:30pm
Publishing in the Irish Journal of Management - an international, double blind, peer reviewed, ranked, online, open access journal in the Management discipline
Dr Marian Crowley-Henry, Maynooth University School of Business
This online event gives an overview of publishing in the Irish Journal of Management from the co-editor-in-chief, Dr Marian Crowley-Henry, Maynooth University School of Business. The presentation includes advice for authors and describes the review process, with time for Q&A. It also gives the editor perspective regarding key reasons for desk rejections, challenges in publishing, and seeking expert reviewers.
You can view the recording HERE
Wednesday 25 October 3 - 3:30pm
Publishing Strategically to enhance your Research Impact
Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian, MU Library
This talk will examine how to identify the best quality/highest impact journals to publish your research output in, the benefits of and options available to publish Open Access. It will also look at how to improve the visibility and dissemination of your published work.
You can view the recording HERE
MU's Research Week 2022 takes place on the week of 24 October and coincides with Open Access Week. The Library is delighted to co-ordinate with the University on preparing a programme of talks and exhibitions. All talks are online and will be recorded where possible. These talks are also be listed in the overall Research Week programme of the University available HERE.
Programme
Online Exhibitions
Daily
MU Publications SWAY exhibition
Elaine Bean /Michaela Hollywood /Amanda Mahon
This exhibition covers books published during the last three years. Topics are wide ranging and include literature, music, politics, poetry, the changing role of women in Irish and other societies, conflicts nationally and internationally, faith and spirituality, music, marriage, maps and data mining and the COVID Pandemic. The exhibition gives a flavour of our rich publishing output. The books included are available from the University Library.
Daily
MU Library Makerspace - 3D Printing supporting research
Dr. Heidi Campbell
This virtual exhibition focuses on the diverse research topics of both students and staff who we have submitted 3D printing requests to MU Library Makerspace. From a miniature pill box and clay measure to an ambisonic shell and grip testing tool used for a robotic arm - this theme explores the different ways a university library uses 3D printers to support student and staff research.
Daily
The Second Reformation and Catholic–Protestant Relations in Pre-Famine Ireland: Bicentennial Perspectives SWAY exhibition.
Exhibition curators: Dr Ciarán Mc Cabe & Alexandra Caccamo
Digital exhibition: Catherine Ahearne
This exhibition explores the significance & legacy of the Second Reformation of the 1820s-40s. The launch fall on the bicentenary of the infamous sermon (charge) given by the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, William Magee (1766-1831) in St Patrick’s Cathedral on 24 October 1822. Archbishop Magee’s charge sparked religious controversy in Ireland, playing a significant role in driving the Second Reformation, including the 'Bible War', and being countered by the emergence of an assertive Irish Catholicism.
Daily
Libguide - Open Access Publishing and Platforms and MU’s Diamond Open Access Peer-Reviewed Journals
Fiona Morley /Edel King
Interested in publishing open access under a diamond OA model? Check out the fully open peer-reviewed journals that MU colleagues are publishing with assistance from the Library.
Find out more about open publishing platforms, the library publishing community and other routes into open access in this new guide.
View the Libguide
Events and Webinars
Daily
Open Access and Transformative Agreements at Maynooth University
Grace O'Brien/Ruth O'Hara
Since 2020, Maynooth University as a member of the IReL consortium has played its part in helping the transition towards cost neutral Open Access by working to secure an unprecedented number of Open Access agreements with key scholarly publishers across a wide breadth of subject areas. This presentation will look at how these Transformative Agreements work and what are the benefits to making research open access. We will also outline the Library supports and resources that are available to the academic community in Maynooth to assist them in making their work open access.
View the webinar HERE.
Monday 24 October 9:30am - 2pm
Symposium and exhibition launch for ‘The Second Reformation and Catholic–Protestant Relations in Pre-Famine Ireland: Bicentennial Perspectives’
Multiple speakers
Please join us for a symposium and exhibition exploring the significance and legacy of the Second Reformation of the 1820s-40s. This event falls on the bicentenary of the infamous sermon (charge) delivered by the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, William Magee (1766-1831) in St Patrick’s Cathedral on 24 October 1822.
The symposium will include the following speakers:
A declaration of religious war? Archbishop William Magee’s ‘antithetical’ charge of 24 October 1822: context and consequences. Speaker: Professor Emerita Irene Whelan (Manhattanville College, New York).
The Reverend William Phelan and his contribution to Irish church history, c.1790–1850. Speaker: Professor Emerita Jacqueline Hill (Maynooth University).
Messengers, watchmen, and stewards of the Lord”; how Archbishop Magee’s message to ‘the Clergy of the National Religion’ influenced the writing of Irish religious history. Speaker: Dr Miriam Moffitt (St Patrick’s College, Maynooth).
Catholic-Protestant relations in pre-Famine Ireland: a case study of Dublin parish vestries. Speaker: Dr Ciarán McCabe (Queen’s University Belfast).
The Second Reformation in the Kingscourt District, 1822–61. Speaker: Dr Marion Rogan (Maynooth University).
Churchmanship and the Second Reformation: a case study of the 3rd Earl of Roden and his estates. Speaker: Mr James Frazer (Queen’s University Belfast).
If you missed the symposium you can attend the exhibition virtually HERE.
Tuesday 25 October 10:30 - 11:30am
How the Library can support Early Career Researchers in their career progression
Ciaran Quinn
This session will look at the supports and resources available to ECR's to assist them in the Research process, managing their research data and developing Data Management Plans, choosing where to publish their research output, measuring research impact to showcase their work, enhancing their research visibility and much more. There will also be a Q&A session at the end for any queries you may have.
View the webinar HERE
Tuesday 25 October 2:30 - 3pm
Developing a Data Management Plan for your research data: An introduction to the tools and supports available to help you do this
Fran Callaghan
This session will outline what a DMP is, why its important, what it should contain and what steps to follow to complete it. It will also look at the tools available to help you complete it correctly whether it’s to comply with funders mandates or part of your own good research practice. Part two will focus on reviewing your Data management Plan. This will bring you through the correct approach and provide helpful tips for reviewing your DMP.
View the webinar HERE
Thursday 27 October 10 - 10:30am
The Troubles Collection in Maynooth University Library
Ruth O'Hara
This paper will look at Maynooth University Library's (MUL) unique collection of books, pamphlets and ephemera relating to the period commonly referred to as the Northern Ireland "troubles". It examines the obligations and challenges placed on MUL to contribute to the collective memory and heritage of a society by preserving with impartiality such authentic source material. By acquiring and making this “troubles” material available MUL is continuing to transform its collections by ensuring a diversity of opinions are accessible to all who are interested in using our shared past to inform our future approach to this turbulent period of our history.
View the webinar HERE
Thursday 27 October 11 - 12:30pm
Maynooth Open Research Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Dorothy Bishop: Open Research Practices in the Age of a Papermill Pandemic
Prof. Dorothy Bishop
Prof. Bishop has been a longstanding supporter of open science and research integrity, and in this lecture will discuss challenges facing open science, focussing in particular on the problem of "academic paper mills”.
Over the past decade, pressure has been growing for researchers to adopt open practices, which have been gradually growing in acceptance. The starting point was open access publishing, but now there are moves to require open data, open analysis scripts and open reviewing. In addition, there is growing interest in pre-registration, which involves openly committing to a research question and analysis plan prior to data collection. One factor that might encourage adoption of open practices is the astounding growth in fake papers produced by so-called academic paper mills. These are organisations whose business model involves selling authorship of publications. The publications may be plagiarised or computer-generated, and they vary in terms of how easily they can be detected. Papermills have become a serious problem and they threaten to inundate some journals. I will discuss the factors that motivate the use of paper mills and consider what we can do to defend against them. I conclude that open practices can play a major role in depolluting the literature.
View the webinar HERE
Thursday 27 October 7pm
Book Launch
‘Leaves from the Cotton Tree’ 37 essays by Sierra Leonean and Irish people, who have built and maintained Ireland's unique relationship with Sierra Leone
Professor Aidan Mulkeen, Deputy University President and Registrar, Maynooth University, will launch “Leaves from the Cotton Tree: Celebrating Thirty Years of the Sierra Leone Ireland Partnership”. The book launch is the final event in Maynooth Research Week 2022.
The 35 essays in the book are written by Sierra Leoneans who live and work or study in Ireland and Irish people who have worked in Sierra Leone in different capacities.
Published by Sierra Leone Ireland Partnership (SLIP), topics covered include the Sierra Leonean student experience in Ireland, the Sierra Leonean film industry, healthcare, teacher education and training, libraries and research support, Irish missionaries in Sierra Leone, diplomatic links and the history of the Sierra Leone Ireland Partnership, now in its 30th year of existence. The book will be on sale at the event and will be €15 cash sales only.
Programme
Tuesday, 19 October 11:00 - 11:30
Enhancing Knowledge Through Transparency and Openness
Dermot Lynott, Assistant Professor, Maynooth University, Department of Psychology
Following some widespread failures to successfully replicate empirical findings in various disciplines, the social and biomedical sciences have had some bad press lately. Here I will look at some of the problems that have come to the fore in recent years, consider how increasing transparency in our research processes can help improve the quality and robustness of our work, and look at how local open scholarship networks can also make a big contribution.
Watch here
Tuesday, 19 October 12:00 -13:00
Using Reference Management Tools to enhance your research output.
Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian, MU Library
An important component of Academic Integrity is the correct citation and acknowledgement of works used in your research when disseminating your research findings. Accurate citation in keeping with the norms of your discipline and avoiding plagiarism are an essential part of research integrity. To aid you in this process MU provides access to the Desktop and Online versions of the EndNote Reference Management Tool. Reference Management Tools allow you to import & store references (including the PDF of Articles), generate bibliographies in many different referencing styles, and create in-text citations or footnotes in your papers. You can also annotate PDF’s, keep notes, and engage in collaborations with other researchers which will improve publication visibility and impact. This talk will bring you through the set-up process and explain the basic functionality of EndNote. At the end of the session, you will be able to set up your own account, populate it with references, sort them into subject groups, and generate bibliographies and in text citations/footnotes from your references.
Watch here
Tuesday 19, October 16:00 - 17:00
Publishing Open Access: The Options
Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian, MU Library
Open access (OA) refers to the practice of providing online access to information (generally peer reviewed research articles or data) that is free of charge to the end-user and reusable. Open access - H2020 Online Manual (europa.eu).
This seminar will look at:
• What do we mean by Open Access and is it beneficial to the researcher?
• What the routes into Open Access, how to identify Open Access journals, the issue of predatory journals?
• Open Access and Funders requirements, is there a cost to publishing Open Access?
• The concept of journal prestige and Open Access
• Open Journal Publishing
Watch here
Thursday, 21 October 12:00 - 12:45
Open Access Publishing in MU
Hugh Murphy, Head of Collections and Content, MU Library
Ruth O’Hara, Collections and Content, MU Library
This presentation will look at the importance and benefits of publishing open access. It will detail the extensive number of transformative agreements that are available to the academic community in Maynooth as well as some alternative routes to publishing open access.
Watch here
Thursday, 21 October 2021 13.00 - 13.50
From Pitch to Publication
Claire Sewell
In this lunchtime session, hosted by Maynooth University Library, as part of University Research Week, Claire Sewell author of “The No-Nonsense Guide to Research Support and Scholarly Communication” and Dr Claire McGuinness author of “The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook’, will share their recent experiences of the writing and publishing process. Each will speak for fifteen minutes, followed by questions and discussion. This event will be of particular interest to library staff who are interested in writing a book.
This event is free but booking is essential.
Claire Sewell is Research Support Librarian for the Physical Sciences at the University of Cambridge where she oversees training and support for the research community across disciplines. She is currently serving as President Elect for School Library Association (SLA) Europe and is an Associate Editor of New Review of Academic Librarianship (NRAL). She recently published her first book “The No-Nonsense Guide to Research Support and Scholarly Communication” (Facet Publishing). Claire McGuinness is Assistant Professor and Deputy Head of School at the School of Information and Communication Studies, UCD. She has taught multiple information and digital literacy modules, and currently leads several courses on UCD’s MLIS and BSc Social Sciences programmes. “The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook’ (Facet) ‘is her third book, following ‘Becoming Confident Teachers: A Guide for Academic Librarians’ in 2011, and ‘Digital Detectives’ co-authored with Crystal Fulton in 2016.
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Friday, 22 October 11:00 - 11:30
Title: “E-Legal Deposit Briefing”
Dr Christoph Schmidt-Supprian, Acting Keeper (Collection Management), The Library of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin Honora Faul, Assistant Keeper (Published Collections), National Library of Ireland
Irish Legislation extending legal deposit to digital publications was commenced in December 2019 - Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act 2019: Amendment of section 198 of Principal Act. The National Library and the other Irish Copyright Libraries, including Maynooth University Library, have since been entitled to collect copies of digital publications from Irish publishers free of charge, just like they are doing with print publications. But so far none have done so, at least not systematically. In this briefing, the presenters will consider the implications of the new Copyright Act 2019, outline the current landscape of digital publications in Ireland, point to some related initiatives in the National Library and in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, and finally explore some options for how systematic collection of digital legal deposit publications could be implemented.
Exhibition:
Library Virtual Exhibition of new books by staff of Maynooth University and St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth
This exhibition covers books published during the last three years. Topics are wide ranging and include literature, music, politics, poetry, the changing role of women in Irish and other societies, conflicts nationally and internationally, faith and spirituality, music, marriage, maps and data mining and the COVID Pandemic. The exhibition gives a flavour of our rich publishing output. The books included are available from the University Library.
View the exhibition here
Programme
Monday 19 October 14:00 - 14:50
Open Journal Systems - Creating and running a peer-reviewed journal and Plan S compliance
- Dr Brandt Dainow, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Twente, The Netherlands/ Department of Philosophy and Department of Computer Science, MU.
Watch here
Monday 19 October 15:00 - 15:30
Open Journal Project - Journal of Military History and Defence Studies
- Dr Ian Speller, Director of the Centre for Military History and Strategic Studies, Department of History
Watch here
Monday 19 October 15:30 - 16:00
Research Collections in a time of COVID
- Hugh Murphy, Head of Collections and Content, MU Library
The global pandemic has brought with it a dramatic reduction in access to collections which enable research. Limitations on access to libraries, archives and other repositories has had a direct impact on attendant research – particularly, but not exclusively in the humanities. In this talk Hugh Murphy, Head of Collections and Content in the Library will look at what can be done on campus to address this gap
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Monday 19 October 16:00 - 17:00
An introduction to the OpenStreetMap project
-Dr Peter Mooney, Department of Computer Science
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is arguably the most popular open-access geospatial database on the Internet today. Yet, most people using online maps and web-based mapping systems will never have heard about it. OSM is a crowdsourced database of openly accessible geospatial data from all around the world. Citizens, humanitarian agencies, scientists, researchers, governments, etc. from all around the world have been responsible for contributing data and information to the OSM project. This interactive presentation will introduce the OSM project to those who have never heard about it before. We will explore some of the great applications of OSM but also ways researchers and scientists can access and use OSM data in their own work. By the end of the presentation we hope that you will be motivated to become involved in the OSM project and begin using it in your everyday mapping and geospatial data tasks.
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Tuesday 20 October 10:30 – 11:00
Publishing your research open access- the options
- Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian, MU Library
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Tuesday 20 October 12:00 - 12:30
The importance of having an ORCID ID - create a unique digital identity, control your scholarly profile, and promote your research.
- Fiona Morley (Head of Digital Programmes and Information Systems, MU Library), Ciarán Quinn (Research Support Librarian, MU Library), Dr Elaine McCarthy (Research Development and Support) (30 mins)
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Tuesday 20 October 13:30 - 14:00
'Establishing new open access publishing partnerships: Maynooth University and Dancecult"
- Dr Alistair Fraser, Department of Geography
This brief talk showcases and explains the formation of a new open access publishing partnership established in the last 12 months between Maynooth University and Dancecult, a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture.
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Tuesday 20 October 14:00 - 14:30
Open Access Publisher Agreements in MU
- Jack Hyland (IRel Manager)/Hugh Murphy (Head of Collections and Content, MU Library)
Since 2020, Ireland has joined other countries in signing so called “transformative agreements” with academic publishers, allowing researchers to make their articles OA immediately on publication, without author-facing charges. How do these agreements work and why are institutions increasingly favouring them as drivers of open access? Will they succeed in making OA the default model for research publications? If so, at what cost? In this talk, we will answer these questions and provide an overview of OA agreements in MU and Ireland to date.
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Tuesday 20 October 15:00 - 16:00
Ensuring knowledge belongs in the commons: the importance of open access
- Helen Fallon, Deputy Librarian MU and Firoze Manji, Director of Daraja Press, and Adjunct Professor in the Institute for African Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa
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As part of Research Week 2019 (21-25 October), MU Library is hosting various events and exhibitions from across campus. Bearing in mind that this is also Open Access week, on Tuesday 22 October we have additionally arranged a number of talks, a number of which focus on the theme of open publishing and open journals. Details follow below. There will also be a MURAL (Maynooth University Research Archive Library- our institutional repository) drop-in clinic and a Makerspace/VR information stand in the library foyer on the mornings of Tuesday 22 and Thursday 24 October.
Everyone is welcome and no registration is required.
Research Week takes place from 8-12 of October in Maynooth University. Special Collections and Archives, located on level 2 of Maynooth University Library, will be open on Thursday, 11 October. On display will be some material from its collections, including the Teresa Deevy Archive, Pearse Hutchinson Archive, Wardell Archive, Littlehale's Archive and the historic St. Canice’s Cathedral Library collection.
John Paul II Library
Opening Hours 08:00 – 17:00
Service Hours 08:45 – 16:45
Russell Library
Opening Hours 10:00 - 17:00
Service Hours 10:00 - 16:30 (Appointment only)
Closed for lunch 13:00 - 14:00