you are here: norma smurfit library

Norma Smurfit Library

Welcome to the Norma Smurfit Library at NCI

Opening Hours

Contact Details:

Norma Smurfit Library
National College of Ireland
Mayor Street, IFSC, Dublin 1

Tel: 01 4498590
Fax: 01 4498563
email: library@ncirl.ie

Please note that essential maintenance to the library will commence on the 16th August 2010. Unfortunately there will be some noise in the library during this time. We apologise for the inconvenience. The 'Past Present and Future' exhibition room at the entrance to the library has been designated as a quiet study room for the duration of the works.

PLEASE NOTE: The library will be closed on Saturday 28th August, and Saturday 4th September 2010

Access for all users, to the online legal resources database WESTLAW using your network login and password

Find out how to access, and use all the online law resources available to staff and students

Institutional Repository

In line with international practice to ensure wider dissemination of research to maximise its visibilty, accessibility and scientific impact for society and the economy, NCI supports free online access to this body of work. Accordingly NCI has developed an institutional repository called TRAP. Students and staff may log onto TRAP with their network accounts, and view and download theses and research projects. External visitors to the site may create a temporary user account which allows access to the repository's holdings. Student theses, and other projects, submitted for NCI degrees and diplomas will be deposited by editors in TRAP. Academic staff, research assistants, research students and other members of NCI are entitled to deposit digital copies of refereed research publications, and similar documents. Other material, for example documents by NCI staff completed in the course of employment, or material which is pertinent to the management of the college may also be submitted. Please note that owners of the copyright of material deposited in TRAP may exercise their intellectual property rights as a result of any copyright breach. Also the NCI operates a policy of scanning submitted projects and theses through anti-plagiarism software.

LIBRARY 1st STOP

The NCI Library has a search site for users called Library 1st Stop that helps us make better use of our electronic resources. Library 1st Stop allows you to search multiple databases simultaneously and to link to other resources which the library subscribes to. Not all online resources can be searched at the same time, however this page is the first stop on your research/information journey. The product uses software that translates your search into 'appropriate' language in each of the selected databases. Some of the databases/resources can be searched simultaneously. These have boxes which can be clicked in order to perform a simultaneous search. The other resources can be used individually by clicking on the title of the database/resource. Not all returns or hits that you search for from Library 1st Stop will be full text information. You may have to, on occasion, go directly to a specific database for additional information.

LIBRARY GUIDE

We have a library guide which gives all the general information on opening hours, contact details, how many books you can borrow, and all the library services you can access. You can pick it up from the library, we will be happy to post it out to you, or you can access by clicking on this link Library Guide@NCI