by crauter | Nov 26, 2019 | Events and training, Open Access, Open Research, Publishing
Are you thinking about starting a new open access journal, perhaps in an emerging field of research? Swansea University supports the open source software Open Journal Systems (OJS) OJS Logo Come and meet us for coffee and a chat Wednesday December 4th 2019, 10...
by crauter | Nov 8, 2019 | Library Resources for Research
Research Information System (RIS) Image: Listening by Pixabay Firstly we would like to thank you for your patience during the last couple of weeks as we work through some of the bugs within the new Research Information System (RIS). Despite much planning, user testing...
by crauter | Oct 28, 2019 | Library Resources for Research
RIS Home Feedback button icon Many thanks for your feedback and ideas for the new RIS system. We are currently working through these requests, and fixing bugs that have been identified post-launch. Please provide any further feedback, comments and observations via the...
by crauter | Oct 11, 2019 | Events and training, Library Resources for Research
Where are we now? With just over 10 days until the launch of the new RIS the team is finalising details including applying permissions and fixing any remaining bugs. After release, we will continue to implement further enhancements including notifications...
by crauter | Sep 25, 2019 | Library Resources for Research, REF, Research Impact, Research News
Where are we now? We are now just weeks away from launching the new Research Information System (RIS). Over the next week or so we will be releasing the test system for use with some departments in order to gather further user feedback and to begin introducing the...
by crauter | Aug 15, 2019 | Library Resources for Research, Research News
Image by cuilei2016 from Pixabay Where are we now? The team continue to work through the user feedback to make changes to the system in terms of functionality and style. This includes updates to allow users to be able to add additional authors to items and to signal...
by crauter | Aug 1, 2019 | Research News
Where are we now? User testing has been a key focus over the past weeks with users from across all Colleges and Schools being invited to test the system. This includes members of the REF Team, REF Officers and academics. We have held sessions in ISS and also run...
by crauter | Jul 23, 2019 | Open Access, Open Research
Introduction; Pre-prints are not new. Some pre-print servers such as arXiv have been going since 1991; however, there is increasing interest in the use of pre-prints as part of the move towards open access publishing and open scholarship in general. What are they?...
by crauter | Jun 20, 2019 | Open Access
We are a bit late to the infographics party but thought it was about time we publicly shared a monthly overview of the University’s Open Access publications. We include the numbers of new publications added to the Research Information System (RIS), together with some...
by crauter | Jun 12, 2019 | Research News
Where are we now?The Committee for Research Innovation Strategy and REF Strategy Group have both approved a series of changes to RIS which will be visible in the new version as explained below: OLD RISNEW RIS Authors add the same output multiple times, meaning...
