Interesting Article from Historical Ballinrobe

http://www.historicalballinrobe.com/page/over_14000_downloads_of_a_visual_history_of_st_marys_church_of_ireland_ballinrobe_co_mayo

Have you looked at CUAL?

CUAL is the Institutional Repository for the Connacht-Ulster Alliance Libraries (GMIT, LYIT and IT Sligo). It's great to see it being used... here are some usage statistics.

Take a look yourself ... CUAL is an online Open Access repository of the research and scholarly output of the CUA Institutes. The content is made fully and freely available in accordance with copyright holder permissions.

Dail debate referencing GMIT Carina Ginty's thesis

Check out the Dail's topical issue debate referencing GMIT Carina Ginty's thesis from CUAL.
 
http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail2015033100032?opendocument

New Institutional Repository

A valuable new research resource for third-level students and academic staff in the North West has been officially launched by the three Institutes of Technology in the Connacht-Ulster Alliance (CUA).

The institutional repository called ‘Cual’, developed by the libraries in GMIT, IT Sligo and Letterkenny IT, hosts extensive research material from staff and students in the three colleges, such as journal articles, theses, monographs, books, book chapters and conference papers.

This significant academic resource is also a platform which showcases research on a range of topics and disciplines to the general public on http://cua.openrepository.com

The new institutional repository is the first collaborative academic initiative by the CUA. It was formally launched at a reception hosted by Letterkenny IT in Donegal last month attended by the Presidents of the three Institutes and the Registrars from GMIT and LYIT as well as programme chairs.

Margaret Waldron, GMIT Librarian, says: “The CUA Institutional Repository is a highly significant project as it provides a resource which preserves and showcases at a worldwide level the research of academics, students and researchers in GMIT, IT Sligo and LYIT. The repository will raise the profile of the researcher and in turn increase the citations to their work. We are delighted to share this educational resource with the public”.