Database Trial: MIDIRS

UCC has a tial of the Maternity and Infant Care Database (MIDIRS) This database trial for up to 4 simultaneous users is available until 28th June 2007.


MIDIRS is a bibliographic database for midwifery. Its aim is to provide maternity health professionals with an overview of key midwifery and medical research to inform their practice. The information is gathered from over 550 international journals and original articles are commissioned on the hot topics being discussed by the midwifery profession.



As our decision whether or not to subscribe to these titles will be based on feedback received during the trial, we would welcome any comments you may have – to send your comment just click on Comments below.

Opening Hours - Brookfield

Brookfield Health Sciences Library opening hours have been finalised for the coming months.

In Term time we're open 9a.m. - 10:15 p.m. Monday - Friday and 9a.m. - 3:30p.m. Saturday & Sunday.

Over the summer from 1 June until 2 September we're open 9 a.m. - 8:30p.m. Monday - Friday and 9a.m. - 3:30p.m. on Saturdays.

You can check opening times for all our libraries at http://booleweb.ucc.ie/Openinghours/opening.htm - please don't forget to check the Exceptions to regular hours link for holiday weekends etc.

Laptops in Basement

We have received complaints from users of the Basement in Brookfield Health Sciences Library that the keyboard clicking of wireless laptops is causing irritation. In response we have created a delimited area for laptop use in the Basement in the hope this may deal with the problem.

We hope to get full cooperation from laptop users in this experiment. We would be very pleased to get any feedback from you on how well this experiment is working – has it solved the problem or are there other possibilities?