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A short video about the AHRC/IRC-funded OG(H)AM project

Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been used extensively in applications such as electrical goods, soft furnishings and building insulation foam. The ELEVATE project generated data to facilitate the assessment of human exposure to these chemicals. non-peer-reviewed

Round table discussion about Dundalk's industrial heritage at DkIT in PJ Carrolls on 26th August 2015 as part of the National Heritage Week.

A short video giving the essential steps to submitting research to the repository.

There are 800,000 unmarked graves in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. This is the story of one. A Dublin family discovers that the family grave has a mysterious occupant - a two-year-old girl, buried there 140 years ago. Who was she, why was she buried there, and what should be done?

ResearchScope To mark open access week 2009, (See: http://www.openaccessweek.org/ ),WIT Libraries have launched a federated harvesting and discovery service called ResearchScope. ResearchScope is a national portal designed to raise the profile of Open Access research in Ireland - by making it more visible. It works by harvesting information from research repositories, which present their records in an agreed standard called OAI-DC. By pulling this information together in to one index and re-presenting them via ResearchScope as well as the original home repositories, the information is made more visible to web search engines. It is worth noting that ResearchScope itself presents the aggregated data in this way and it can therefore be indexed itself by other services. See http://www.repository.wit.ie/index.php/oai?verb=ListSets ResearchScope is based on existing software produced by the Public Knowledge Project, a Canadian group based in Simon Frasier University. (See: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ ) With minor modifications to the layout and the addition of a graphical 'word cloud' search, ( See: http://www.quintura.com/ )we have produced an appealing and useful single point of access to open access research in Ireland. We would to organically incorporate tools and services as time goes on. The widespread global interest in the movement toward open, public access to scholarly research results is steadily gaining momentum and ResearchSchope is also an attempt to broaden awareness/understanding of Open Access to research, on the part of research funders, the Irish higher education community and the general public - who pay for this research with their hard-earned taxes. See: http://researchscope.net/

By reciprocal arrangement between WIT and the National College of Ireland, you are now able to access their collection directly - more than 100,000 items. This form of direct consortial borrowing has never been tried before in Ireland. Before you borrow your first book, you will have to set up a COIL account, which is straightforward. The items which you reserve online will be posted to us, for you to collect, at the front desk in the Luke Wadding library, afterwards. The Initiative is called COIL, which stands for Consortium Of Irish Libraries. During the initial launch phase, there will be no charge for these loans, but we may need to levy a charge to recover our postage costs. This video gives an overview of COIL.