TU Dublin Library Services presents our Open Advent Calendar, where we showcase open access resources from our collections and beyond throughout December.
Follow along each day to see what you can learn about Open Access.
Find out if much has changed in our Christmas food traditions in this paper examining the rich history of food over the years in a rural Irish Christmas.
Explore how you can make your teaching and learning content accessible using the quick Accessibility THRIVES guide.
From theoretical approach to data analysis, this LibGuide from your Research Support Librarian of resources on research design and best practice will make planning your research truly the most wonderful time of the year!
This feature from the British Medical Journal discusses how NHS staff created personalised Christmas cards with the help of genAI. Read about the process, but don't forget to mention and cite if your creative output was assisted by AI!
High demand, shipping delays, and increasing costs can cause supply chain woes in the lead up to Christmas. Learn more in this article by Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos & Sarah Schiffling.
When you're decking the halls this year, think sustainable! Today's interior designers have a responsibility towards the environment and building's sustainability, as well as aesthetics and functionality.
Santa has his work cut out for him in this paper on the power of brands and pester power at Christmas.
A guide to reflective practice & reflective writing from our Research Support Librarian Róisín Guilfoyle. Reach out for support with your research any time, whether you're an undergraduate dissertation student, PhD candidate, or career researcher!
Allergies might be the last thing on your mind this frosty season! But if you feel an increase in hayfever-like symptoms every December, you could be suffering from a little-known condition called 'Christmas tree syndrome'...
This article discusses the recently re-imagined Coca Cola TV ad from the 1990s. The new AI iteration has caused controversy as well as poor reviews. Which ad do you prefer?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/coca-cola-causes-controversy-ai-made-ad-rcna180665
Lost in the world of Literature Reviews? This guide could be your guiding light this Christmas and beyond.
Winner of the Food and Drink Book of the Year at An Post Irish Book Awards 2024 and a Gourmand world cookbook award, this winter reflect on our rich food history with this fantastic companion book - Irish Food History by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman.
The FAIR principles - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable - are critical in helping make research open. Learn more about making your data FAIR here!
This article illustrates how the science of preservation lies behind two common Christmas foods: mince meat and plum pudding.
Set aside a little time this festive season and learn about making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) with your Data Librarian!
In his open access PhD research, Max Romanowski dissects the links between ‘television’ and ‘Christmas’, explaining how and why the two discursive systems regulate time across 21st century American media, and thereby, cultural experience.
Explore how the man who invented the Wizard of Oz also played an important role in inventing Christmas shop window displays.
Why do we so often celebrate with good food? Extravagant festive meals are as ancient as they are contemporary, and have bound hosts and guests within communities in books, films and stories since we began to tell them.
Why not check our guides to help you achieve your publishing wishes for 2025. From getting started with writing, choosing a publication, creating interest and impact in your work to publishing your data. There's a resource to help with every step on the road to publishing.
https://www.tudublin.ie/library/library-support/support-for-researchers/research-skills-training/
Tell your impact story and showcase how 'nice' you are by evidencing the societal impact of your research. But remember that including certain metrics is prohibited on most narrative CVs. Learn more about how to keep yourself off the narrative CV 'naughty list' with our Research Impact Librarian's LibGuide on narrative CV writing!
'‘You are one of the only group of creatures on the earth that can work the miracle of happiness. Feel glad. Start at once your laboratory of happiness.’
Spread the Christmas joy with the recipes from this 1936 Bacon Shops Ltd catalogue.
Take in the Christmas celebrations at Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Ethiopia. This photo-essay is published via ARROW's 'International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage' to the Digital Commons Network
Kieran O'Connell compares his experience hand rearing his own turkeys against large scale turkey production in this insightful article featured on RTÉ Brainstorm.
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
