This page provides links to the many resources and services available to Maynooth University Staff, Researchers and Students.
The Library has a team of Subject Librarians. Their role is to provide a link between the Academic Community (lecturers, researchers, students etc) and the Library to help in meeting their information needs.
Each member of the team is responsible for particular subject areas.
Specific roles include:
- Research Support to Staff and Students
- Academic Liaison
- Information Skills Tutorials
- Development of Information Skills programmes
To identify who your particular subject librarian is, select the relevant subject link under Subject Support . This contains:
- Contact details of the Subject Librarians
- Subject resources lists
- Recommended library databases (and guides)
The services of a Research Support Librarian are also available from the Library.
Services include: Individual or group research consultations either in your own location or the Library, keeping you up to date with available resources, bibliometrics support (researcher/institutional citation impact), showcasing your research, improving your research visibility, advice on the research process and literature reviews, managing your references using reference management software. Many useful links are located on the Research Support Librarian Blog
- Collections: Includes the John Paul II and Russell Libraries collections, and also the Digital, Electronic, and Special collections. There are also a number of Open Access resources.
- Using the Library: Details on your book borrowing rights, inter- library loans, off campus access, printing & photocopying, access to PC's and much more.
- LIST (Library Information Skills Tutorials)
- Writing Centre: Offers writing help to any student, undergraduate or postgraduate
- Open Access Resources: Includes links to National and International Institutional Repositories and Open Access eJournals.
Information Resources:
- General Collection (Classic Catalogue)This provides access to details of the print book and Journal collections in the Maynooth Library. It also links into the Libraries extensive eBook collection. The Russell Libraries collection can also be searched from here.
- Academic Writing (Book Collection)
- Research Methods (Book Collection)
- Referencing (Book)
- Other Library Catalogues
- Newspapers
- EPrints (Maynooth University Institutional Repository)
- RIAN (Open Access Irish Research)
- Open DOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories
- ticTOCs Journal Table of Contents Alert
- Maynooth University eTheses collection