Free Trials: Early Childhoon Education

Two online resources for Early Childhood Education students: Childlink & North South Child Protection Hub (the NSCPH).

Go to http://libguides.gmit.ie/trials for more information.

Let us know what you think of the resources!

Free online training platform - Elsevier Publishing Campus

The Elsevier Publishing Campus is an online platform offering free lectures, interactive training and professional advice. Perhaps you are interested in writing a journal article or submitting a book proposal; learning how to conduct peer review for a high impact journal; understanding research and publishing ethics or writing a successful grant application, whatever it may be Elsevier have the resources to help you achieve your goals.

Our hope is that you will also be inspired to contribute to this community. Perhaps you have an idea to share, a view on a specific trend or topic, or maybe you wish to leave a comment – we welcome all your participation.

The Campus offers:

• online lectures 
• interactive training courses 
• webinars 
• professional advice from experts 
• useful resources such as guides, crib sheets, articles, blogs and more 

Topics cover the fundamentals of getting published, peer review and ethics, effective grant writing, techniques and tools for promoting their work, and more.

Plus, for each interactive training module or online seminar that researchers complete, they will be recognized with a personalized certificate from Elsevier.

Visit the Elsevier Publishing Campus today, sign up for free, link to it and use any of the available resources in your own research service curriculum and materials.

Free Access to Palgrave Macmillan Journals

Palgrave Macmillan is offering FREE online access to all its journals until 31st March 2014.

This includes all current and archival content for their portfolio of titles spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences and Business.

Go to http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/index.html and start browsing of search for titles and topics of interest.

Enjoy!

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Biznar.com - a free, deep web search portal focused on business issues.

Campbell Collaboration - helps people make well-informed decisions by preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews in education, crime and justice, social welfare and international development.

DHO: Discovery - a gateway to Irish digital collections and resources, information and knowledge. Discovery supports the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional sharing of knowledge throughout the HSIS (Humanities Serving Irish Society) consortium and digital research collections of Irish interest.

Economics Search Engine - search over 23,000 economics websites.

Google Public Data Explorer - makes large, public-interest datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.

Histpop - the Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.

JURN - a curated academic search-engine, indexing 4,579 free ejournals in the arts & humanities.

Mednar.com - federated Search of public and subscription collections such as Cochrane Library, PubMed and Medline Plus for medical researchers.

PogoFrog - jumps over the layman-focused clutter on the internet to find only credible medical information for physicians.

Scitopia.org - free search portal to the digital libraries of leading worldwide science and technology societies.

ScienceResearch.com - the world's most comprehensive, public science and technology research portal, searching over 400 collections globally.

The Science.gov Alliance - gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results.

Trove - an innovative, free, online search engine developed by the National Library of Australia.

WorldWideScience.org - global science gateway-accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases.

Yahoo Finance - free stock quotes, up to date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, message boards, and mortgage rates