by crauter | Jun 8, 2017 | Events and training
We have 2 open access sessions running next week on Park Campus: Wednesday 14th June, 1-2pm Friday 16th June, 11-12pm These will be informal and can cover all aspects of open access and using RIS. Book via Eventbrite and select the session you require. We also have a...
by crauter | May 22, 2017 | Research News
All authors at Swansea University who publish with SAGE are entitled to an article processing charge for a discounted rate of £200 until December 2018. The deal applies to journals in the Sage Choice and Sage Premier categories. Sage should notify you that you are...
by crauter | May 5, 2017 | Events and training
We have a staff session on Thur 11th May 4-5pm which will cover using RIS and Cronfa for your publications and to comply with open access requirements. The session is on Singleton Park campus in the library: Training Room 1. Book on...
by crauter | Apr 24, 2017 | Research Impact
A researcher recently brought the site Publons to our attention as a good way to get credit for the often unseen and uncredited work of peer reviewing for publication. Publons states their mission as follows: Publons works with the world’s top publishers so you...
by crauter | Apr 6, 2017 | Open Access, REF
Saturday 1st April 2017 marked the one year anniversary for the REF Open Access policy: this covers all journal articles and (some) conference proceedings accepted for publication after 1st April 2016. These papers must comply with HEFCE’s Open Access policy or they...
by crauter | Apr 5, 2017 | Research News
This database to which we subscribe has recently increased massively the number of links to the full text of PhD theses. Most theses submitted since 1997 in this database can now be viewed in pdf format, together with some older theses. Proquest Dissertations and...
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...
by crauter | Mar 31, 2017 | Research Impact
Our “7 Days of Twitter” course was “aimed at Swansea University researchers, staff and students who wish to learn more about Twitter in the context of research and boosting your research impact”. We have no plans at present to re-run the course...
by crauter | Mar 23, 2017 | Research Impact
If you are looking for ways to promote your research, the web service Kudos is a free option to try: https://www.growkudos.com/. See an example of Kudos for an article or another example by Swansea University’s Louise Miskell. Here’s a short video which...
by crauter | Mar 13, 2017 | Library Resources for Research
Browzine allows you to browse many of the journals subscribed to by Swansea University in one single easy platform. You can access it online at http://browzine.com/libraries/242/subjects or you can download an app to use it on your mobile device. When you go into...
