by crauter | Nov 21, 2018 | Library Resources for Research
There are many good reasons to spend some time with Google Scholar, as well as caveats in respect of its credentials. It remains a serious contender for academic literature searching; for example, a couple of recent papers: “Google Scholar to overshadow them...
by crauter | Jul 19, 2018 | Events and training, Library Resources for Research
We ran an updated version of our “Stand out and be counted” session for researchers this week. This time we have hosted all the resources on a Padlet: https://padlet.com/s_l_c_oakley/standoutandbecounted The presentations are at the bottom of each column,...
by crauter | Mar 15, 2018 | Library Resources for Research, Open Access, Theses
From October 2017 all new PhD students have to make an electronic copy of their thesis available online. Information about this is available on our LibGuide. Existing and former PhD students can also participate in the new e-thesis service to make our Swansea...
by crauter | Dec 11, 2017 | Library Resources for Research, Research News
Those of you who use Web of Science for your research may be interested in the following developments: There will be changes in the way open access is flagged up to distinguish gold final versions from green ones. Also they will be marking hybrid open access papers...
by crauter | Sep 28, 2017 | Library Resources for Research
Photo Credit: Charles Henry (assets) Flickr via Compfight cc With the start of another academic year, we welcome all researchers! The Library Research Support Team works alongside the library subject teams, providing specialist support around topics related to...
by crauter | Apr 3, 2017 | Library Resources for Research, Research News
You may have come across Scival, Elsevier’s citation analysis tool which we have access to at the university. InCites is a rival product based on Web of Science data which allows similar analysis. Access Incites at http://wok.mimas.ac.uk then click the InCites...
