In early 2021 Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) introduced a number of new transformative open access agreements. This is a major development for the Irish research and publishing landscape and there has been an unprecedented uptake of open access publishing. To date IReL has enabled 20 such agreements across many disciplines, helping to ensure that Irish research is available to the broadest possible audience.
While some of these agreements allow unlimited OA publishing, several are based on a fixed number of OA articles per year, and in several cases our allocations for 2021 are due to run out before the end of the year. Once this happens, these publishers will cease offering immediate OA on publication without charges. From January 2022, they will resume offering OA with a fresh 2022 allocation.
The agreements which will run out before the end of the year are:
There remain alternative ways for you to make your work open access:
If you would like further information please contact publisherapproval@tcd.ie.
You can find out more on our IReL open access agreements at https://libguides.tcd.ie/schol-comm/OA-agreements
Your course reading list may have moved online. Check either at module level on Blackboard or at MyReadingList@TCD for updates. All records are linked to the catalogue to give dynamic and live information on book availability.
Interested in how our books are organised? See our Finding Books in the Library page which shows you how we use DEWEY classification to arrange our material into collections.
The psychology open shelf collection is located on the second floor of the Berkeley library at 150-159. Print Reference items such as Mental Measurements Yearbook, Tests in Print and various dictionaries and encyclopedias are located at the start of the 150 sequence.
Stacks or Storage books can be found using Stella search (catalogue) and requested using the Click and Collect button at the record level.
Quick links:
Click here for a link to all ebooks in psychology which are available on or off campus. To access, simply login with your Colleg ID when prompted.
Click here for UK copyright ebooks in Psychology which must be consulted in on library pcs. Unfortunately, the Library is not permitted to make these titles available remotely due to licensing restrictions. If there is a title which you feel would be a valuable asset to the collection, please email me and I will investigate price and eligibility.
Print copies of the 7th edition are available in the library.
If you want to similar books on a topic, use an existing book record you found in the STELLA search catalogue, for example, using a keyword such as counselling. Within the book record look for the Details section and SUBJECT. Click on a relevant hyperlink to find more targeted titles. In this example, this will bring back all books on the topic regardless of spelling variations in the titles, in this case US and British.
This is a quick link to print dictionaries in Psychology.
This is a quick link to online dictionaries in Psychology. These can be accessed remotely using your College ID.
This is a quick link to UK eLegal Deposit online dictionaries which must be viewed on Library pcs.
Handbooks are useful collections of papers, bound in volumes, in a particular field.
This is a quick link to print handbook series in Psychology. This is a quick link to online handbooks in Psychology which you can access remotely.
This is a quick link to UK eLegal Deposit or online handbooks in Psychology which have to be viewed on Library pcs.
