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Infotrac Academic OneFile is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
The ACM Digital Library is the authoritative research, discovery, and publishing platform for computing and information technology. It brings together ACM’s complete body of scholarly content with tools that support research, collaboration, and long-term preservation. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Business, management, tourism and multisubject. Contains important full‐text journals and much sought‐after titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports
IREL Education, social sciences, health sciences and multisubject.
APA Books E-Collections encompass book content in psychology and related disciplines, including sociology, education, industrial and organisational psychology, medicine, psychiatry, nursing pharmacology, neuroscience, and physiology etc. Coverage within each collection is limited to scholarly and professional titles. SETU Carlow has searchable full text access to books published between 2008 – 2012.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
Psychology, health sciences.
Psychology, health sciences.
Psychology, health sciences.
Artstor’s Public Collections offer approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums.
open access
A curated research-sharing platform open to anyone. As a pioneer in digital open access, arXiv.org now hosts more than two million scholarly articles in eight subject areas, curated by our strong community of volunteer moderators. Subject areas include: Physics, Mathematics, Computer science (CoRR), Quantitative biology, Quantitative finance, Statistics, Electrical engineering and systems science, and Economics.
open access preprints
The ASM Handbooks database provides comprehensive and authoritative guide to resources relating to the structure, properties, processing, performance, and evaluation of metals and nonmetallic engineering materials.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) is an American organisation of material producers, users, and researchers who are involved in the manufacturing, testing, and applications of materials. Equivalent to the European ISO Standards, the ASTM develop standards for a wide variety of testing & test methods, terminologies, materials classifications, and industrial practices to inform and supplement related American commercial and R&D regulations.
BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. BASE provides more than 120 million documents from more than 6,000 sources. About 60% of these resources are open access.
Use as an alternative to SETU Libraries Search
open access theses dissertations
Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB) is a reference work aimed at undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, professors and experienced professionals at all levels. About a hundred new genera and 600+ new species have been described per year for each of the last 5 years. To remain abreast of this explosion in knowledge of the microbial world, an electronic manual with frequent updates is necessary. The BMSAB is an essential tool for anyone at the forefront of research in microbiology. Bergey’s is the most complete and authoritative description of bacterial and archaeal diversity. Now available online for the first time, this edition provides descriptions of the taxonomy, systematics, ecology, physiology and other biological properties of all described prokaryotic taxa.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
Bloomsbury Collections offers excellence and originality in scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Explore the digital stacks in our expansive eBook library with titles that seek to educate, inspire, inform, and amplify the voices of all authors globally. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Drama Online is an award-winning digital library from Bloomsbury, the world’s leading drama publisher. It features exclusive imprints, Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare, supplimented by playtext and streaming content from world-renowned partners including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe, Stratford Festival, TCG Books, L.A. Theatre Works, and many more. It offers over 4,500 playtexts, 800 hours of video, 450 audio plays, 650 scholarly books and over 30 volumes of major reference works. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Law. Formerly known as Murdoch’s Irish Legal Companion Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
BMJ Best Practice is freely available to access in the Republic of Ireland. It provides disease specific information, treatment processes, and patient leaflets on diseases & chronic conditions and very regularly updated evidence summaries. In addition there are links through to BNF/BNFC drugs listing & the basic drugs listing. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
free access
A collection of 29 e-Books on Sports Medicine. Titles include: ACSM’s Primary Care Sports Medicine, Biochemical Basis of Sports Performance, Evidence-based Sports Medicine, OSE Sports Medicine, Oxford Handbook of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Practical Orthopaedic Sports Medicine & Arthroscopy, Principles of Manual Sports Medicine, Sports Injuries: Mechanisms, Prevention & Treatment, Sports Nutrition Workbook and Assessments. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Award-winning, international film and videos across a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects in the Arts and Humanities. Collections. Dance. Documentaries, interviews and filmed performances and a rich array of world dance traditions including Japanese kabuki and indigenous Australian dance.
Access to Freely Available British and Irish Public Legal Information
Not available through EDS/Homepeage search
open access law
IREL Multisubject; Business, Management
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, is the definitive research database for nursing and allied health professionals.. RCNi is now housed within CINAHL
IREL Cambridge Core Journals provides full-text access to 420 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. A list of journal titles can be found here
Open access e-books made available by Cambridge University Press – subjects covered include: Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies,Computer Science, Drama and Theatre, Economics, Environmental Science, General Science,History, Law, Life Sciences, Literature, Management, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Psychiatry, Religion, Sociology.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform is a research discovery application that provides integrated access to the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions. You will need to register for a user account to use the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform. Please use the link provided.
Cite Them Right is an online referencing platform designed to advise students on how to reference correctly across eight referencing styles. It offers step-by-step guidance and examples for citing a wide range of sources, including books, journals, websites, and more. The platform also includes tutorials and videos to help users understand the principles of referencing and avoid plagiarism.
Harvard Referencing
Health sciences – systematic reviews. Choose institutional login.
The Construction Information Service (CIS) provides up-to-date standards, regulations, technical guidance, and product information for the construction industry, helping students access authoritative resources to support design, compliance, and project work. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
CIS, engineering, architecture, standards
Contains lots of information on building construction, past and present. It’s aimed at students and practitioners and anyone else who is interested in building construction and building history. It concentrates on principles and practice; not on the details of Building Regulations or British Standards. Information has been gleaned from a variety of sources including manufacturers, specialist contractors, surveyors, building control officers, trade bodies, early text books and trade catalogues, county & city record offices, museums and so on … The Construction Web Site includes: hundreds of pages of text on all aspects of domestic building construction; nearly two thousand photos showing new and old construction practice; hundreds of 2D and 3D graphics; several PowerPoint presentations; lots of short video clips and several multiple choice tests; a brief and fairly non-technical summary of the most important Building Regulations (housing only). USERNAME AND PASSWORD REQUIRED Contact [email protected] for login details
Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
CORE is a multidisciplinary academic search engine that aggregates open access research papers from repositories and journals worldwide. It provides access to millions of full-text scholarly articles, making it a valuable resource for discovering freely available academic content across all disciplines
open access
Access to 614408 open access research theses from 583 Universities in 28 European countries. NOTE: This has now shut down
open access
Data.gov.ie is intended to provide easy access to datasets that are free to use, reuse, and redistribute. The portal is operated by the Government Reform Unit of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Open Data listed in data.gov.ie is published by Government Departments and Public Bodies and also harvested from the following sources; The Irish Spatial Data Exchange, Dublinked, Central Statistics Office’s StatCentral.ie, Ordnance Survey Ireland, Health Service Executive, Cork City Council, Galway City Council, Galway County Council, Roscommon County Council, Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Open access
De Gruyter Brill provides extensive scholarly resources, including over 250,000 eBooks and 800 journals, primarily focusing on humanities, social sciences, and STEM.
Open access
The Directory of Open Access Books gives full-text links to open access books on a wide range of topics including: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Law and Political Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General, Social Sciences, Technology and Engineering
Open access
CIS, engineering, architecture, standards
Multisubject. Open access scholarly journals.
open access
The Dictionary of Irish Biography is curated by the Royal Irish Academy and provides biographies of over 11,000 prominent men and women born in Ireland, north and south, and the noteworthy Irish careers of those born outside Ireland. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Open access
The Digital Repository of Ireland is a searchable national digital repository for Ireland’s humanities, social sciences, and cultural heritage data. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Open access
IRELNTUTORR Access the world’s finest theatre productions. Stream world class theatre experiences to any device, anywhere in the world. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Access to the main search page for EBSCO databases, listing all resources SETU has access to.
2655 eBook titles hosted on EBSCOhost. Available on and off-campus
e-book, ebook
Over 183,000 eBooks in all subject areas. Available on and off-campus
e-book, ebook
EBSCO Open Dissertations includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations and records for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than 320 universities around the world. Multidisciplinary subject coverage.
Open access theses dissertations
Business, management, tourism and hospitality.
Emerald Social Sciences eBook Series Collection complements and extends the current Emerald resource, adding more than 210 volumes from over 35 book series titles. The collection provides contemporary and high quality research, and contributes much to debate in the fields of politics, psychology, sociology, health care and education. Searches within Emerald automatically include the ebooks and any Emerald journals which we have access to. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
Available to all students : Free reference management tool. Available on and off-campus. See: Endnote 21 Reference Management software freely available to all students and staff. Downloadable to your laptop or PC. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
A specialized database for business students and researchers focusing on entrepreneurship and small business topics. It offers access to full-text journals, books, company profiles, and videos, including faculty seminar videos from Harvard Business School professors. This resource is ideal for entrepreneurship-related research and case studies.
journals, case studies, company profiles, seminar videos, seminars
Entrepreneurship, business and management.
Full-text education literature and resources. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) contains records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers.
open access education theses dissertations
Espacenet offers free access to more than 110 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today. It has a user-friendly interface available in almost all European languages. It enables users with little or no experience in patent searching to obtain an overview of the state of the art, to follow new developments or to find out who invented what.
Open access patents
Search over 400,000 doctoral theses.
open access theses dissertations
SETU is part of The European University for Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability – EU-CONEXUS, which promotes common European values and a strengthened European identity by bringing together a new generation of Europeans and creating a new institutional framework for higher education in Europe. The thematic framework Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability (SmUCS) means that EU-CONEXUS focusses its research & innovation, education and knowledge sharing activities on societal challenges that are linked to a specific geographical location – the urban and semi-urbanised coastal (rivers and oceans) regions. SmUCS is not a subject-driven thematic framework, but a challenge-driven education and research domain. This is a common portal for the repositories of the EU-CONEXUS partners.
Open access
Euromonitor Passport is a global market research database providing insight on industries, economies and consumers worldwide, helping students analyse market context and identify future trends impacting businesses globally. SETU Carlow’s subscription includes industry research for 20 core countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Russia, USA, China and India) and global coverage for Economics and Consumer topics. The database includes analysis on consumer lifestyles, population trends and socioeconomic research. Go to the INSTITUTIONAL LOGIN link at bottom right-hand of screen and then search for ‘South East Technological University Carlow’ to log in to this resource. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Europeana provides access to collections of millions of books, music, artworks and more from European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research. Funded by the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility and European Union Member States
Open access
Gale Business Insights: Global is a unique source for international business intelligence offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries
Investigate authors and their works across eras with biographies and overviews, full-text critical analysis, reviews, primary works, and more, all through Gale Literature resources.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
Gale OneFile Health and Medicine provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers.
Selection of reference ebooks covering history, literature, religion, social science and more. For multidisciplinary research.
Also known as InfoTrac Newsstand. Access major international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.
Gale OneFile Power Search provides a cross-search of all subscribed Gale services. Use this option to search for Gale ebook resources.\r
Open access, e-books, ebooks
Gale General OneFile is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily. Most articles can also be downloaded as MP3 files.
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Find abstracts, links to a vast number of different research outputs. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Open access
Hindawi is a rapidly growing academic publisher with 150+ Open Access journals covering all major areas of science, technology, and medicine, and a book publishing program that spans all scholarly disciplines.
open access theses dissertations
The HRB National Drugs Library supports those working to develop the knowledge base around alcohol and other drug use in Ireland. We aim to enable evidence-informed decision making in research, policy and practice by providing relevant and appropriate library and information resources and services.
open access
HRB Open Research is a platform for HRB-funded researchers to rapidly publish their research outputs in an open and accessible way
open access
Access journals, conference proceedings and IEEE standards in electrical and electronic engineering and computer science from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Industrial Relations News (IRN) is a weekly Irish publication providing comprehensive coverage of all industrial and employee relations issues. Contents include: News, analysis and features on all current industrial/employee developments, Local and national pay bargaining, Labour law developments, Employment Appeals Tribunal and Equality Officer cases, Impact of EU Directives on industrial relations and employment law and Coverage of Labour Court and Labour Relations Commission (LRC) cases. SETU subscribes to this online edition which gives access to all issues from 1997 onwards.
Ingentaconnect offers searchable access to over 4.5 million articles from 13,500+ electronic publications. SETU Carlow patrons can search this resource. Full text access to Built Environment journal (2003 – 2016), Journal of Education Advancement & Marketing (Summer 2020 – Present)
The Irish Concrete Society is a not for profit learned society founded in 1973 to promote excellence in the use of concrete in Ireland. It is a cross-sectorial, independent, impartial, science and engineering based organisation established to cater for the needs of all who have an interest in concrete, in its widest sense. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
IREL 6 million pages of newspaper content from titles North and South of the Irish border and through the newspaper obituaries Irish genealogists can search, retrieve and view births, deaths and marriage records from over 279 years of Irish publications. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Consulted by GPs, hospital doctors, pharmacists, dentists and nurse practitioners IMF provides medicines information for safer and effective patient care.
ezproxy
ezproxy
Ireland’s leading centre for quantitative data acquisition, preservation, and dissemination. Its mission is to ensure wide access to quantitative datasets in the social sciences, and to advance the promotion of international comparative studies of the Irish economy and Irish society. It holds a range of key Irish and international comparative datasets, and makes them available for secondary analysis by students, academics, and researchers in the public and commercial sectors.
Open access
The Irish Spatial Data Exchange is an online data discovery service hosted by the Marine Institute cataloguing data across a number of public organisations including; All-island Research Observatory, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Environmental Protection Agency, Geological Survey of Ireland, Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland Centre. This exchange acts as a one-stop-shop for access to and information on spatial data resources on Ireland.
Open access
A service from Ovid which provides an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. While all titles are searchable, full-text access is restricted to those Sports Medicine titles for which SETU Carlow holds a subscription: American Journal of Sports Medicine, Exercise & Sports Science Reviews, Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise, Strength and Conditioning Journal. In addition, the database contains links to freely available full-text articles.
The Journal of Research in International Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal in international education for schools, examiners and higher education institutions throughout the world. This journal is available through our subscription to SAGE Journals (below)
JoVE creates the ultimate solutions for advancing research and science education by making and publishing videos of scientific experiments from the top laboratories around the globe.The SETU JoVE Bio subscription provides access to over 300 concise and easy-to-understand animated video lessons, spanning key fundamental biology concepts. Our subscription also includes access to more than 150 scientist-in-action videos, showing actual research experiments conducted in today’s laboratories.
IREL JSTOR is an archive of academic journal back issues. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles. However, the most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available, but users can search this recent material and link to the full text (depending on subscription status). At the moment, a page comes up when you log in, asking you to ‘log in to a free account’. You can ignore this, unless you want to create a personalised account that will enable you to store bookmarks and searches, etc.
JSTOR Open and Free Content provides access to a wide range of material from open access journals and e-books.\r
Open access, e-books, ebooks
Justis provides access to The Irish Reports and Irish Digests, provided by The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for Ireland. This gives coverage of over 170 years of Irish case reports and contains the full text data of published cases from 1838 to the present day. Full-text access is provided to Irish Cases and Irish Legislation, from 1998 to the present day, including over 18,000 Acts of the Oireachtas and 9,000 Statutory Instruments. JustisOne offers search and analysis tools to find where a relevant authority has been cited, how cases and legislation are cited in other jurisdictions and how to tell if a case is still considered good law.
Accuris Engineering Workbench supports technical research by providing centralised access to engineering documents including standards, technical reference books, patents, regulatory content and journal articles. This database was previously known as Knowledge Workspace and Occupational Health and Safety Information Service (OHSIS). Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Lenus, the Irish Health Research repository is the leading source for Irish research in health and social care. The Lenus collections include peer reviewed journal articles, grey literature, dissertations, reports and conference presentations. Lenus contains the publications of the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) and the collected research output of over 130 health organisations past and present are all freely accessible.
open access dissertations theses
Lexis+ is a legal database which includes UK & Irish Cases, UK Law Journals, International Legal Information, All England Law Reports, The Irish Reports etc.
This latest version of MarketLine replaces Datamonitor360 and gives access to a unique mix of company, industry, country and financial data for every major marketplace in the world. The content includes company SWOT analyses, company overviews, industry profiles, case studies, country analyses, country statistics and latest news and developments. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Also known as the British National Formulary (BNF), this resource provides healthcare professionals with authoritative and practical information on the selection and clinical use of medicines in a clear, concise and accessible manner. Hosted on the MedicinesComplete (Pharmaceutical Press) platform, BNF data is updated twice a year Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
The Medline database is generally recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. Medline is the largest subset of PubMed, and is widely used by students, researchers and clinicians. The data from the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) is available in various versions. Medline records appear in a few database providers. At SETU, it is offered through EBSCOhost. This means it uses the familiar features and conventions of the other EBSCO databases. PubMed is the US National Library of Medicine research level version of MEDLINE indexing over 20 million medical and healthcare articles.
“This database provides access to all Irish (I.S.), European (EN) and International (ISO) Standards. Please note that when you log in for the first time, you will have to create an account with Intertek Inform. This resource used to be called Intertek i2i from SAI Global. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
The Nexis Uni database provides access to the Company Dossier and Market Insight platform. Dossier collates information from authoritative business, news, country, market research and industry sources and provides you with pre-formatted reports in an instant, and company, industry and executive profiles. This platform enables you to gain Insights and current information including financial information on national and international companies and the industries they operate in.This database also provides access to a comprehensive range of online national and international newspapers.
An online library and publication platform provides access to thousands of peer-reviewed academic books, mainly in the humanities and social sciences.
Open access open access books
OASIS is being developed at the SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library and currently provides access to over 2000 open access text books from different sources. Subjects are covered from both the sciences and the humanities.
Open access open access books
Index of over 250M scholarly works from 250k sources, with extra coverage of humanities, non-English languages, and the Global South. These works are linked to 90M disambiguated authors and 100k institutions, enriched with topic information, SDGs, citation counts, and more.
Open access
Over 200 open access titles from the leading UK open access publisher.
Open access open access books
Open Research Europe is an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe funding across all subject areas. Use the Search option to find publications
Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Open access
The Open Research Library is an aggregation of peer-reviewed, open access, scholarly monographs which is hosted on the BiblioBoard platform covering a wide range of subjects including Architecture, Art, Business, Design, Education, Law, Medicine, Psychology, Science, Social Science.
Open access
Open Textbook Library provides access to Open textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. Subjects covered: Business, Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Humanities, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences .
Open access
A comprehensive and open dataset of research information covering 149m publications, 19m research data, 338k research software items, from 124k data sources, linked to 3m grants and 195k organizations.
Open access
A collection of 50 open access introductory titles on a range of subjects, provided by Rice University
Open access open access books
The Ovid interface provides access to a range of databases, e-journals and e-books. The databases are particularly useful for identifying journal articles and other publications on a particular topic within the subject areas covered by each database. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
OVID SP
Overton is the world’s largest searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers. Overton collects millions of policy documents and link them to the research, people and other policy documents that they quote or reference. Overton is used by Researchers To find grey literature and study the dynamics of real world policymaking, as well as to track the impact of their own work on policy, supporting grant, promotion and tenure applications. Funders and universities To easily find where their work is influencing or changing practice in the real world. Government, IGOs, think tanks and NGOs To quickly report on where their work is influencing or changing practice in the real world, to identify evidence gaps, experts and potential partnerships.
IREL Full collection – Over 500 journals
Oxford University Press titles made available for open access.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
PADDI is produced by the libraries of Queen’s University Belfast and University College Dublin. It is a freely available web-based index to publications on architecture, planning, urban design, the built environment and related topics in Ireland north and south. Materials including journals and books held by either the libraries of QUB or UCD are indexed. Most publications indexed date from the mid-20th century onwards. Records in PADDI range from the Medieval era to the present. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Open access architecture
Available on the Library Catalogue. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
open access theses dissertations
For off-campus access select ‘Log in’ and then ‘Log in with your Institution’ then type ‘south east technological university’ and follow the South East Technological University link shown in orange.This is the online version of The Pharmaceutical Journal, the official journal of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. It provides professional, clinical and business news and information relevant to the practice of pharmacy in the United Kingdom. The following additional titles are also included: Hospital Pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacist and Tomorrows Pharmacist. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Pidgeon Digital provides access to a range of presentations by influential architects including; Cedric Price, Denys Lasdun, Felix Candela, Frank Newby, James Stirling, Konrad Wachsmann, Maxwell Fry, Norman Foster, Peter Rice, Philip Johnson, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Richard Rogers, Serge Chermayeff, Ted Happold, and Zaha Hadid. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
IRELNTUTORR An online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books. Project MUSE contains digital humanities and social science content from over 250 university presses and scholarly societies around the world.
protocols.io is an open-access platform and repository that allows researchers to create, manage, and share step-by-step scientific methods and laboratory protocols. It solves the common problem of abbreviated, hard-to-follow experimental methods in published research papers Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Health sciences. Available on and off-campus (Login)
The European Union Publications Office provides open access to a wide range of EU documents and information including magazines, reports, open data.
Open access
Coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Research Square is a multidisciplinary preprint platform developed and operated by a company of the same name. The platform allows researchers to share their work early before submission to a scholarly journal.Preprints are preliminary reports that have not undergone formal peer review. They should not be considered conclusive, used to inform clinical practice, or referenced by the media as validated information
Sage Business Cases provides access to case studies covering a broad range of Business areas to support Business related research.Subjects covered include entrepreneurship, accounting, leadership, human resource management etc Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
SAGE Handbook Collection contains 170+ authoritative, international, and interdisciplinary handbooks across the social sciences. This Collection is hosted on the SAGE Reference Online platform and covers subjects such as Aging & Gerontology, Business & Management, Communication & Media Studies, Counselling & Psychotherapy, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Family Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Geography, Health & Social Welfare, History, Politics & International Relations, Psychology, Public Policy & Public Administration, Research Methods & Evaluation, Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, Sociology, Urban Studies & Planning. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
IREL Sage Journals provides access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals across the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and more.
IREL SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students from all disciplines with their research projects. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, humanities and social sciences.
NTUTORRSciVal is an analytical research tool from Elsevier that offers quick, easy access to the research performance of over 7,500 research institutions and 220 countries worldwide. Overview and Benchmarking modules are available. SciVal uses Scopus citation data as its data source. Note: You will need to register for a user account to use SciVal. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
IREL Social Science Premium Collection database offers indexing and full-text coverage of a collection of academic journals, across a range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
IREL NTUTORR Access to current content from all Springer, Palgrave, Adis subscription journals, as well as Academic Journals on nature.com.
Open access e-books published by Springer across a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
A collection of electronic books covering aspects of energy management and engineering – content can be downloaded.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
ebook, e-book
Open-access, searchable database of postgraduate theses in the field of music. Theses that were submitted for degrees awarded in Ireland, or for degrees awarded outside Ireland where the content of the thesis is relevant to music in Ireland.
Not available through EDS/Homepeage search
open access dissertations theses
SSRN is an open access platform used to share research findings at an early stage, prior to publication in academic journals. It covers disciplines across the full research spectrum, including the applied sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. SSRN is a searchable online library – the vast majority of papers can be downloaded free of charge. It provides a space for a variety of content types to be accessed beyond the traditional research article, including gray literature, book reviews, multimedia files, and datasets.
Open access preprints
IREL NTUTORR Medical Collection, Social Sciences and Humanities Collection
Taylor and Francis
Over 450 open access e-books are available on a range of subjects including Biology, Environment & Sustainability, Law, Engineering, Business & Management, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Language & Literature, Politics & International Relations, and Built Environment..Use the “Show content I have access to” filter to display open access titles.
Open access, e-books, ebooks
UCL (University College London) Press makes all its books and journals available in open access form to download freely in PDF form or read online anywhere in the world. They can be downloaded freely from UCL Press’s website or from the many other platforms where they are distributed. Subjects covered include: Art History, Built Environment, Economics, Education, Law, Media Studies, Science, Sociology, Sustainability
Open access open access books
This combines British & Irish sources (including: magazines, newspapers, and reference books) with international sources.
Formerly JustisOne Online library of UK, Irish, EU and international case law and legislation. Contains: Irish Reports and Digests , vLex Ireland Core. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
Humanities, science and social sciences
web of knowledge
Legal studies, law. Westlaw has a new interface now, however.Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search .
Legal studies, law. Note: This resource will not appear in SETU Libraries Search.
IREL Wiley Online Library hosts a broad multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Full text access is available – click on more… to see full details of titles specifically subscribed to by SETU Carlow. Multisubject, health sciences, education, law, humanities.
The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Open access development economics
Zenodo is a free and open digital archive built by CERN and OpenAIRE, enabling researchers to share and preserve research output in any size, format and from all fields of research.vcmegal
open access open data