Search books, ebooks and back issues of journals in the library catalogue.
For resources and databases provided by the library please see Subject Resources A-Z or QMU database and resource AtoZ list .
Jisc Library Hub Discover exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of major UK and Irish libraries.
In a single search you can discover the holdings of the UK’s National Libraries (including the British Library), many university libraries, and specialist research libraries. This new service replaces Copac and SUNCAT, providing access to a growing range of library catalogues, with a new interface style and updated search facilities.
OpenAlex indexes over 250M scholarly works from 250k sources, with extra coverage of humanities, non-English languages, and the Global South.
The works are linked to 90M disambiguated authors and 100k institutions, as well as enriching them with topic information, SDGs, citation counts, and much more.
Addressing the needs of the research community in the Social Sciences and Humanities, OPERAS empowers researchers with services to discover open scholarly publications, improve transparency of peer-review practices, measure usage and impact of open access books, foster research dialogues through blogging, engage in collaborative citizen science projects, and much more!
With the development of its services, OPERAS is building transnational access to scholarly communication resources available to researchers across the European Research Area and integrating them into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the SSH Open marketplace.
CORE - the world’s largest collection of open access research papers
CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.
CORE harvests research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers.
CORE currently contains millions of open access articles, from over tens of thousands of journals, collected from data providers around the world.
If you’ve found the perfect research item and hit a paywall, Open Access Button and Unpaywall will search to see if there is an open access version of it available. Simply enter the article’s DOI or other information, or install the browser extensions and click them every time you encounter a paywall, to be redirected to an open version if available.
OpenGrey - System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, provides open access to 700,000 bibliographical references of grey literature (papers) produced in Europe and allows you to export records and locate documents.
Examples of grey literature include: technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers, some official publications, and other types of grey literature.
OpenGrey (previously known as SIGLE) covers Science, Technology, Biomedical Science, Economics, Social Sciences and Humanities.
WolframAlpha is a computational knowledge engine, rather than a search engine, which we are more accustomed to searching the world wide web with. WolframAlpha is described as an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and generate reports.
