Research Skills: Research Skills

Developing your information searching skills

·         how to use Eolas to search for print and electronic  sources

·         how to search for peer reviewed articles

·         pinpointing useful sources for your subject

·         evaluating the information you find on the Internet

·         the principles of copyright and referencing

Improving your research skills

·         selecting and accessing databases

·         creating search strategies

·         advanced database searching 

Free book websites

• bookboon.com Free online textbooks for students. Covers topics such as economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science.
• Corpus of Electronic Text (CELT) The online resource for Irish History, Literature and Politics
• Google Book Search Google has joined forces with a number of Libraries and publishers to provide free access to books, if you don't get the entire book, you might get to see a sample chapter or the table of contents.
• The Online Books Page Features links to over 30,000 free books on the web
• Project Gutenberg The Internet's oldest producer of free e-books
• Universal Digital Library Free digitized collection of over 1 million books and other material
• Women's Writers Online Texts by pre-Victorian women writers (1400 to 1850)

School of Business and Social Sciences

Sinéad Kelly

Departments of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering and Civil Engineering and Construction

Siobhan Conry

Department of Computing and Creative Practices 

Jennifer Flynn

Department of Environmental Science

Jim Foran

Department of Life Sciences

Áine Meehan
 

Email library@itsligo.ie to arrange a Reference appointment