by crauter | May 16, 2016 | Library Resources for Research, Research News
Social Media for Academics by Mark Carrigan Creative research methods in the social sciences by Helen Kara Learning the literacy practices of graduate school / Christine Pearson Casanave and Xiaoming Li, Editors Getting it published / William...
by crauter | May 9, 2016 | Uncategorised
Scival have recently introduced an Economic Impact measure which you can find in the Overview section of the tool. This uses information from around the world to find patents which cite publications from Swansea University, potentially showing an effect on industry....
by crauter | May 3, 2016 | Research News
ImpactStory has been around for a while – we used to recommend it in our “Stand Out and Be Counted” sessions as a great showcase for a researcher’s all-round profile and a way to track altmetrics. It then went through a period as a paid-for...
by crauter | Apr 20, 2016 | Events and training, Open Access, Publishing
Have you received emails asking you to submit a paper to a journal or conference? Researchers are increasingly being bombarded by unsolicited solicitations to publish and these should be treated with extreme caution. The model of authors paying to publish open access...
by crauter | Apr 19, 2016 | Open Access, Research News
A few tips on naming your files for the Research Information System: You may have noticed that RIS does not accept filenames with a space or special character such as such as: ! # $ % & ‘ @ ^ ` ~ + , . ; = so you may need to rename your file...
by crauter | Apr 1, 2016 | Open Access, REF
Any papers accepted for publication after 1st April 2016 must now comply with the REF’s open access policy. The university expects all papers to be compliant even if you do not anticipate that they will form part of the REF – the university’s own...
by crauter | Mar 30, 2016 | Events and training, Open Access
With the start of the REF Open Access policy on 1st April, we are running two more open access briefing sessions next week for any researchers who aren’t sure what they need to do. Booking is essential: Bay Campus: Wed 6th April, 2-3pm in Engineering Central...
by crauter | Mar 24, 2016 | Open Access
The REF open access policy (which comes into effect on 1st April 2016) was not designed to compel authors to pay for gold open access. In the original policy they state: “Institutions can achieve full compliance without incurring any additional publication costs...
by crauter | Mar 17, 2016 | Events and training, Library Resources for Research, Research Impact
We are taking part in two sessions this week on the topic of altmetrics, “the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship”. See the altmetrics manifesto for the original explanation and justification;...
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...
