Adult & Community Education Resources

A digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Australia's largest source of education information, updated monthly. Sources cover 1979 to date and include reports, books, journal articles, online resources, conference papers and theses.

Provides information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK from 1975 to date.

Covers a broad range of subjects, including all the main subjects in the humanities, social sciences and hard sciences. Provides unlimited full-text access to current and back issues of nearly 200 peer-reviewed journals.

The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, with more than 2.3 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses included, covering graduate research from 1861 to the present.

EBSCO eBook Collection provides 24 hour access to a selection of library eBooks in full-text. Many of these titles are also listed in the library catalogue.

Provides abstracts of journal articles and reports relating to education from 1966 to date.

Exam Papers Electronic Retrieval Tool - two databases of examination papers from 1998 onwards for both St. Patrick's College and NUI Maynooth.

Provides abstracts of postgraduate theses accepted by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Irish theses now have their own collection and this collection can be searched separately by clicking on Irish Theses from the Index to Theses homepage.

The electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) includes Acts of the Oireachtas and Statutory Instruments, the official versions of which remain the printed versions published by Government Publications. The eISB also includes the Legislation Directory. Full text of the Acts of the Oireachtas 1922-2012, Statutory Instruments 1922-2012 and Legislation Directory 1922 to 2012

Current issues of the Irish Times including the past 12 months

A comprehensive and unique resource tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,000 publishers in over 60 countries.

Journal Storage Database - full text archival database of covering 900 scholarly journals in the areas of arts & humanities, social sciences and science.

Links to newspapers the library subscribes to and to free sites including international, and national and regional Irish newspapers.

With up-to-date online dictionaries, thesauruses, and language reference content based on the largest language research programme in the world, Oxford Dictionaries Pro is an extensive, integrated, smart-linked English language resource. It offers quick search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with expert guidance on style and usage, grammar, and spelling; plus specialist guides for legal and technical writing.

This corresponds to the 20-volume 2nd edition of the OED. It covers words from across the English-speaking world and also offers etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the international phonetic alphabet.

Full text access to 180 OUP journals in Life Sciences, Medicine, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Law, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Research Starters™ - Sociology provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies. Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.

SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Access 1999 onwards.

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300 periodicals.

Is the OCED's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals.

Full-text electronic access to over 1000 Taylor & Francis titles. This is a multidisciplinary resource including arts, humanities, science and social sciences.

The online version of Ulrich's Periodicals Dictionary, providing bibliographic information on serials published through out the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly.

Provides abstracts and cited references in arts & humanities, social sciences and science.