by crauter | Apr 30, 2012 | Publishing
Melissa Terras (UCL) has been monitoring downloads of her articles from the institutional repository at UCL since she started writing about them on her blog and “tweeting the papers for download”. Did it have an impact? Read her blog.
by crauter | Apr 26, 2012 | Library Resources for Research, Research News
Swansea University library has a subscription to the SCOPUS database, a vast multidisciplinary index of academic materials. The database is straightforward to use for a search and will hopefully retrieve a substantial set of results for your topic. However, if you...
by crauter | Apr 25, 2012 | Publishing
This is an ongoing debate which is getting a lot of attention right now. We have already seen articles about the “Academic Spring” in the Guardian and now the same newspaper has published an article in which it says that Harvard University ” wants...
by crauter | Apr 24, 2012 | Uncategorised
The new website for the REF can be found at http://www.ref.ac.uk/. It gives detail about the timetable, requirements etc. for the 2014 research assessment exercise.
by crauter | Apr 16, 2012 | Research News
As the cost of subscriptions to scholarly journals continue to increase, some researchers have begun to take a stand against some of the major publishers. A recent article in The Guardian tells the story.
