Research

The Library offers a range of research services and resources. Whether you are a PhD researcher, postdoc, or academic staff, whatever your research needs may be, the Library is here to help.

Discover & Define Find evidence, explore existing research and develop your research question.
Find and evaluate relevant literature, evidence, datasets and other research resources, and manage the information you discover.
Plan & Design Plan your research, data, methods and open practices.
Plan how research data, methods and outputs will be managed, documented, shared and preserved, and identify any funder, project or collaboration requirements.
Collect, Create & Manage Collect, create, organise and protect research materials and data.
Manage research data and materials so they are organised, documented, secure and usable throughout your research.
Analyse & Document Use appropriate tools and transparent research workflows.
Explore digital methods and tools for analysing, processing, documenting, enriching and presenting research.
Publish & Share Choose where to publish and make your research open.
Choose an appropriate publishing outlet and route to open, understand your publishing rights and make your research openly available.

Publishing a research output?
Start with Research Publishing for guidance on choosing an outlet, routes to open publishing, Rights Retention, repository deposit and publishing agreements.
Research Publishing guidance
Visibility, Impact & Engagement Make your research discoverable and understand its reach and use.
Improve the visibility and discoverability of your research and use profiles, identifiers and research metrics responsibly.

Support across the research lifecycle

Open practice, research data management and digital research approaches can support your work from project planning through to publishing, sharing and reuse.

Open Practice Research Data Management Digital Research & Innovation

Researcher Workshops and Events

Guides for Research

Latest news

Beyond Green and Gold: changing the language of open publishing

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:50:01 +0000
For many years, open publishing has been described through colours of Green, Gold, Hybrid, Diamond, and Bronze. For those working in the space, these terms are familiar and easy to say. For authors and researchers, I would question how useful they are, especially for early career authors.At University of Galway, we have been changing the way we talk about open. Rather than asking authors to start

ReproducibiliTea Galway journal club - the MORPHSS project

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:13:49 +0000
The first ReproducibiliTea Galway journal club workshop for semester 1, 2026 will focus on the MORPHSS project - Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Join Dr. Jen Smith from the Library Research Services team and Dr. Jenni Adams, MORPHSS Research Associate, for our hybrid session on the 7th October. The ReproducibiliTea Galway journal

Library Research Services, Semester 1 2026-27

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:07:16 +0000
The Library’s Research Services team supports academic staff, postdoctoral researchers, and PhD researchers throughout the research lifecycle. We provide workshops and one-to-one consultations on research discovery, literature searching, systematic and scoping reviews, research publishing, open access, rights retention, open research, research data management, digital methods, and repository

Research Data Management Roadshow and Support

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:16:06 +0000
The Research Data Steward role was introduced to the University of Galway Library in May of last year. The role's primary purpose is to provide essential support and advice for research data management (RDM) and data governance across the research lifecycle. RDM consists of data tasks of planning and design, sourcing and collection, processing and analysis, and publishing and preservation, all

Ask the Team

Dr Cillian Joy

Head of Research Services
Email: cillian.joy At sign universityofgalway.ie
Open Research, Strategy and Improvement, Digital Publishing, Data Services, Partnerships, Policy

Oksana Dereza

Digital Library Developer
Email: oksana.dereza At sign universityofgalway.ie
Digital Projects, Using Data in Research, and Digital Publishing Platforms

Rosie Dunne

Research Services Librarian
Email: rosie.dunne At sign universityofgalway.ie
091 49 5959
Research Skills, Using Databases, and Finding Information

Kate Harrigan

Research Data Steward
Email: kathleen.harrigan At sign universityofgalway.ie
Institutional DMP review and sign-off

Bianca Pereira

Onboarding Coordinator Open Repositories Ireland (ORI)
Email: bianca.deoliveirapereira At sign universityofgalway.ie
Open Repositories Ireland, Repository metadata

Dr Jen Smith

Open Research Librarian
Email: jen.smith At sign universityofgalway.ie
Open Practice, Research Publishing, and Rights Retention

Michelle Tighe

Library Assistant, Research Services & Collection Management
Email: michelle.tighe At sign universityofgalway.ie
Events, Administration, Communications, and Web