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 | Dec 1, 2017 | Metrics, Research News
HEFCE’s “Forum for the Responsible Use of Metrics” currently have open a survey for institutions (one response per institution is required) to find out how institutions are implementing policies on the responsible use of metrics: Responses will be...
by crauter | Nov 24, 2017 | Open Access, REF
HEFCE announced further clarification on the rules for REF2021 yesterday (PDF here) and this included some decisions on outputs and open access (on p.8). Key points are: The policy is felt to be working in that more papers than ever before have been made open access....
by crauter | Oct 26, 2017 | Open Access, Research News
Many of you will have heard of Bloodhound SSC, a car built to break the landspeed record but also with the aim of interesting young people in STEM subjects. By Katie Chan – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47617502 This...
by crauter | Oct 23, 2017 | Research News
Open Access Week 2017 runs from 23-29th October. Swansea University is taking the opportunity to celebrate the excellent work being done by all our researchers to make ever-increasing numbers of publications open access, free for the world to download on our...
by crauter | Oct 13, 2017 | Research News
We have a session for staff on Wednesday 18th October 2-3pm in Training Room 1 in the library on Singleton Park campus: “Managing your publication profile: RIS, Cronfa & Open Access Course Description/Overview: All research staff are required to enter...
by crauter | Oct 6, 2017 | Uncategorised
Swansea University researchers are being encouraged to sign up for an ORCiD (the unique researcher identifier) and add it to our system so it appears on their staff web page and in RIS. There are 3 quick ways to add your publications to the “Works” section...
by crauter | Sep 28, 2017 | Research News
Bookings have opened for the excellent new programme of Postgraduate Skills sessions. As always the library is contributing a wide selection of sessions but in particular we’d encourage Postgraduate Researchers to sign up promptly for: An informal library...
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 | Sep 19, 2017 | Research News
You may have been asked to put a creative commons license on your work. What is this and what does it do? Creative Commons is a global non profit organization that enables sharing through the use of free legal tools. The licenses work with copyright law and give...
