Public Library Information Services
Please note:
All of these resources can be accessed free of charge at your local public library.
Some require subscriptions for access at home.
Links to additional resources that are freely available online are provided further down the page.
Free Online Resources
Government Information
Citizen's Information - Irish eGovernment website, providing public service information for Ireland.
News
www.onlinenewspapers.com Links to newspapers in a number of languages.
library.uncg.edu/news/ Advanced search facility to search newspapers in 89 languages
www.world-newspapers.com World Newspapers, Magazines, and News Sites in English
Business Information
www.basis.ie – website to provide business with a single access point to all Government information and services
www.enterpriseboards.ie - County and City Enterprise Boards
www.startingabusinessinireland.com – information, advice and resources for entrepreneurs
Medical Information
www.lenus.ie - The Irish Health Repository. This open access archive makes Irish medical research and reports available to the research community.
www.irishhealth.com - independent health website, designed to offer users a comprehensive yet easy to use online source of medical and healthcare information and up-to-the-minute health news.
www.patient.co.uk - UK-based website aimed at providing medical information to non-medical people.
www.evidence.nhs.uk - UK National Health Service website designed to provide a wide range of health information to people working in health and social care, librarians and researchers.
Science Information
www.scirus.com is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information
Arts Information
www.aldaily.com Arts & Letters Daily (a digest of arts journals)
Academic Resources
www.doaj.org directory of open access journals
www.intute.ac.uk free online service providing you with a database of hand selected Web resources for education and research
www.gutenberg.org digital books
lii.org librarians internet index of websites you can trust.
www.weblens.org tools for finding academic research papers or scholarly journal articles.
www.bubl.ac.uk Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas
www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html linking to the major subject gateways.
Irish language
www.gaelport.com Irish language on the net