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Academic Search Complete includes literature related to the humanities, health sciences, technology, and social science. It contains peer-reviewed academic journals as well as popular sources.
Academic Search Complete includes literature relating to humanities, health sciences, technology and social science. It contains peer reviewed academic journals as well as popular sources
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Art Full Text contains indexed and abstracted art journals, indexed art dissertations and art reproductions.
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The BioDigital Human is an interactive 3D software platform for visualizing anatomy, disease, and treatment.
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Bloomsbury Professional Online
An extensive collection of Irish law resources.
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Building Cost Information Service (BICS)
Provides online building and construction cost and price data.
On campus access only.
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BCIS (Building Cost Information Service)
A tool designed for building professionals to help prepare top level cost plans, provide early cost advice to clients and benchmark costs for both commercial and residential buildings.
BNF – British National Formulary
The BNF is organised for quick reference and provides information for healthcare professionals on safe and effective use of medicines, and the management of common conditions.
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British Education Index covers all aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs. Indexing British education journals, theses and more, this resource is searchable by educational level and age group.
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BSOL British Standards Online (25 Standards)
Standards are now available from these databases: IEEE Xplore, IHS and i2i National Standards. If you wish to request a standard, please complete this form.
This database contains full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more. It also includes the full text of Harvard Business Review.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) Quick Start Guide
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Cambridge Journals Online provides access to academic content published by Cambridge University Press. It includes full text access to journals and ebooks across the science, social sciences and humanities disciplines.
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CINAHL Complete provides access to full text peer-reviewed articles in nursing and allied-health. CINAHL stands for the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.
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CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) Quick Start Guide
Cite them right online is a resource to help you reference correctly and avoid plagiarism.
Cite Them Right textbook and Referencing Help Guides can be used in conjunction with this online resource.
Cite Them Right Online Quick Start Guide
Clinical Skills provides hundreds of fully illustrated step-by-step guides describing the latest evidence-based best practice.
This is a leading resource for Systematic Reviews in Healthcare.
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Contains over 600 theatre productions in video format and educational resources in PDF format. Please note that you are not allowed record or download the video, and may only use the PDF content for educational teaching or learning purposes.
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Digital Theatre Plus Quick Start Guide
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The video clip library has been developed to help you find just what you need for your early years training, developing vision and confident practice. Search hundreds of video clips covering child development, play, effective learning and teaching, environments and materials, theories and approaches.
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
This is a multidisciplinary resource – providing eBooks for many different subject areas. The collection includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Harvard University Press and many more.
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eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost ) Quick Start Guide
eBook Business Collection (EBSCOhost)
A collection of ebooks relating to the business subject area. It includes ebooks on ethics, career development, computers/technology, economics, finance, human resources, sales and marketing.
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Search a view the full text of eBooks.
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The database eBook Central (provided by ProQuest) contains a small but growing collection of individual eBooks purchased by the library. These are multi-disciplinary and are very specific to your courses.
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eBook Central Quick Start Guide
Education Source contains both full text journal articles, conference papers and abstracts/indexes. It also includes an online video collection which covers topics such as remote learning, best practices in online pedagogy, e-learning software reviews and activities and examinations for remote students.
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Education Source Quick Start Guide
Emerald provides access to full text articles. Relevant for business, health and safety, quality, marketing, tourism, sociology, HR, accounting, engineering and education subject areas. Emerald Resources area includes a Research Zone and a Learning Zone.
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Emerald Insight Quick Start Guide
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, it is essential too for education researchers of all kinds.
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The European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) is the primary source of official quality standards for medicines and their ingredients in Europe. Ph. Eur. standards provide a scientific basis for the quality control of a product throughout its life cycle, supporting the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare systems.
Please email the library, using your ATU email address if you require a license for this resource (a limited amount of licenses are available).
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FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts) contains abstracts and full text peer reviewed journal articles, trade journal articles, conference proceedings, patents, book chapters, standards, theses and dissertations and reports relating to the sciences of food and health.
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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. Indexing and abstracts for more than 880,000 records. Open access full text for more than 13,000 records.
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GeoHive is the National Geospatial Data Hub, and is designed to provide easy discovery, evaluation and access to authoritative geospatial data produced by Public Sector bodies (PSBs), as outlined in the Public Service Data Strategy.
The viewer gives government departments and public sector bodies access to Ordnance Survey Ireland’s (OSi) geospatial data. The viewer has some GIS tools to help you interrogate the various layers of geospatial information available in the NMA viewer.
Password Required if using Premium and Discovery mapping – please contact the library.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is a trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.
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Henry Stewart Business & Management Collection
Henry Stewart Publications is the leading publisher of vocational, peer-reviewed journals that support graduate employability and executive education. Guided by distinguished Editorial Boards, the journals combine case studies and vocational articles from senior executives with applied research from leading experts and scholars in their field in three collections: Marketing & Digital; Banking & Finance; Management & Real Estate.
Henry Stewart Marketing Collection
This collection supports teaching and learning by providing real world case studies, techniques and best practices by leading experts with direct experience of marketing.
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Formerly called SAI Global. Full text access to NSAI, ISO, EN standards.
More standards are also available from these databases: IEEEXplore, IHS, BSOL(British Standards online)
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i2i National Standards Quick Start Guide
Full text access to IEEE content published since 1988 and selected content published between 1872 -1988. It includes IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines, including early access documents, conference proceedings, published standards, Standards Dictionary Online and IET journals and conference proceedings.
More standards are also available from these databases: BSOL (British Standards online), IHS and i2i National Standards.
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IEEEXplore Digital Library Quick Start Guide
Irish Construction Information Service (CIS) Plus
Provides resources for construction including Eurocode design tables, product and supplier information for both construction and design & manufacturing industries, technical standards legislation and technical guidance.
More standards are also available from these databases: BSOL (British Standards Online), IEEE Xplore, and i2i National Standards.
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The Irish Newspapers Archives is the world’s largest online database of Irish Newspapers from which it is possible to search, retrieve and view Ireland’s past in the exact format it was published.
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JSTOR includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The collections available include Arts & Sciences I -VII, Ireland Collection, and Life Sciences Collection. More information on the resource is available here.
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LexisNexis is a comprehensive law database providing access to primary source legislation and case law and secondary resources including journals, books and legal practical guidance material. Searching Nexis will give access to company profiles, business research/market analysis and news items.
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Medline (part of PubMed) is an online, searchable, database of research literature in the biomedical and life sciences.
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This is a form for collecting statistics for NTUTORR resources.
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OmniFile Full Text Mega provides access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage goes back as early as 1982 and ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad. Users have access to information on virtually any subject. Subject areas include Education, Science, Humanities , Social Sciences, Applied Science & Technology, Art, Literature and Agriculture.
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EBSCO Open Dissertations contains more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from universities around the world. It includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations.
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Oxford Academic, Oxford University Press (OUP)’s platform for research provides access to scholarly books and journals. It includes arts and humanities, social sciences, medicine and health, science, engineering and law disciplines.
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Project Muse provides scholarly journals and books for the humanities and social sciences disciplines.
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The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations, abstracts and full text resources relating to biomedical, health and life sciences. It includes Medline (citations), PubMed Central (full text archive) and Bookshelf. (full text archive of books, reports, databases…)
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Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the UK and Ireland. Users can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources.
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ISURV is the definitive way of locating and accessing built environment information. Created by RICS, the online subscription service gives insight from industry practitioners and legal experts. It is designed to help you effectively put theory into practice, increase your knowledge and potentially help to resolve workplace issues.
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Sage journals cover the fields of business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
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Sage Research Methods contains more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences.
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Science Direct Quick Start Guide
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It covers research in the scientific, technical, medical, social sciences and arts & humanities fields
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Social Science Premium Collection 
This database provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text coverage of journal articles, books and research material. Anthropology, Criminology, Economic, Education, International Relations, Sociology, Political Science, Linguistics.
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SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
SPORTDiscus provides access to sports and sports medicine research.
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Sportdiscus with Full Text (EBSCO) Quick Start Guide
Accumulating over 2,900 journals, spanning all subject areas, Springer continues to be the leading research source that is read, referenced and written by experts in the field. Springer is committed to advancing the conversation among researchers and professionals around the world and is also home to the largest portfolio of open access titles from BioMed Central and SpringerOpen.
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Springer Computer Science eBooks
Springer Computer Sciences eBook Collection: this collection includes all Springer Computer Sciences eBooks published in 2024, during the agreement term, including the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series previously licensed to IReL.
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Sustainable Development Goals Online – SDGO
Taylor & Francis has created the world’s biggest specialist library to support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals initiative and help university researchers, faculty, and students understand and address humanity’s biggest challenges.
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TaxFind offers fully-searchable access to Irish and international tax content and guidance. It includes legislation, commentary, seminar papers, revenue guidance, tax cases and appeals, bulletins, student manuals and articles from the Irish Tax Review.
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A multidisciplinary resource containing online resources for arts, humanities, science, social sciences and medicine disciplines.
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Indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 peer-reviewed journals. Topics covered include Best Practices, Curriculum Development, Literacy Standards, Pedagogical Research, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Science & Mathematics, School Administration.
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UK & Ireland Reference Centre (EBSCOhost)
UK & Ireland Reference Centre is a collection of full-text research content. Content includes British and Irish magazines, newspapers and reference books with other international resources.
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Vocational Studies Complete (EBSCOHost)
This database provides access to thousands of journals on topics such as biotechnology, graphic arts, fashion design, tourism and veterinary.
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Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database containing bibliographic citations. It does not contain full text articles.
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Web of Science Quick Start Guide
An extensive collection of multidisciplinary online resources.
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Westlaw is a legal database consisting of ‘more than 20,000 full text cases, consolidated Irish Court Rules, legislation, journals, analysis, and current awareness tools’.
*Please complete the single-sign on request form with your name and email address when accessing this database.
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Library
The UNWTO Elibrary is an online service from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) with a broad coverage of tourism and related subject areas.
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Over a 1000 exercises for French teachers and learners, over 500 of which are listening comprehension using native French speakers. Zut! also includes exercises for the interactive whiteboard and pronunciation sections. Between the hours of 9.00am and 4.00pm, you have to log on to use the resource – username & password available from the library. Outside of these hours no username or passwords are needed.
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IReL is a consortium of Irish research libraries, providing access to licensed e-resources, OA publishing agreements, and open science infrastructure. ATU is a member of this consortium since January 2023.
Funded by N-TUTORR, the National Technological University Transformation for Recovery and Resilience programme.
Read and Publish deals allow corresponding authors from ATU to publish their articles open access immediately on publication. See IReL OA agreements for more information.