Geraldine Fitzgerald

Office Location: Second Floor, Ussher Library (PDF 26KB)

Telephone: +353 1 8963322

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School of Education

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Subject Librarian Recommends...

Most Useful Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• ERIC
• ERIC (Free Edition) NEW Guides to Searching ERIC Free Edition
• HCPP (This is a particularly useful resource for Irish Education (1801-1920) when used in conjunction with Irish Education in the British Parliamentary Papers in the Nineteenth Century and After)
• JSTOR
• MyiLibrary (E-Books)
• Oxford Journals Online
• Oxford Music Online incl.Grove Dictionary of Music
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
• Sage Journals Online
• Scopus
• SpringerLink
• Taylor and Francis Journals

Guides to Education Resources on the Internet

• List of education-related websites (PDF)
• Intute
• BUBL (please note that not all links work as this portal ceased operation in 2012)

Information Literacy Tutorials

• Information Literacy tutorial (TCD/UCC/UCG Libraries)
• Library E-Tutorial for Students (DCU Library) - good overview on researching a topic - incl. some DCU specific information
• Study skills (TCD)

Official Irish Education Agencies and Selected Reports

• International Bureau of Education - List of Irish Official Educational Agencies
• White Paper on Education (1995)
• Resources - curriculum in Ireland (IBE)
• Improving School Leadership - Ireland - Background Report (OECD, 2007)
• Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life
• Hunt Report (Ireland) 2011
• Overview of Irish Education (UNESCO) 2011