by crauter | Mar 9, 2016 | Events and training, Library Resources for Research
There are several good reference management tools on the market: Swansea University’s supported solution is Thomson Reuters’ product EndNote. This comes in an online version, the full desktop software, plus free iPad app. As well as storing all your...
by crauter | Mar 3, 2016 | Events and training
The library is putting on a series of information sessions for staff over the next few months. Here’s a selection of our 30 minute sessions of general interest to researchers: Mon 7th March, 12pm: an introduction to the increasingly essential ORCID identifier...
by crauter | Feb 24, 2016 | Events and training, Research data
A new MOOC has been launched by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & the University of Edinburgh. “Research Data Management and Sharing” is hosted on the Coursera platform and it’s free to participate. The course lasts 5 weeks and is...
by crauter | Feb 8, 2016 | Events and training, Open Access
The new open access policy for the next REF starts on 1st April 2016. All papers must comply with this policy or risk being excluded from the submission. We have been working hard to raise awareness with our researchers over the last year but in the next few months we...
by crauter | Apr 30, 2015 | Events and training
A one day workshop to learn about tools that can help you to promote yourself and achieve the best visibility for your research including: What can be counted about you? Citations, altmetrics and a look at the new Scival tool Your online identity – researcher...
by crauter | Mar 12, 2015 | Events and training
Bibliometric analysis has become increasingly important in evaluations of the research impact of individuals or institutions (such as the REF). SciVal, which uses data from the Scopus database (used for REF2014), is one of the tools that gathers and analyses this kind...
