by crauter | Sep 15, 2017 | Research News
If you want to set up a new research profile (such as an ORCiD) then a new feature on Cronfa can help! Research staff at Swansea University are required to enter all their publications onto our Research Information System (RIS). This then feeds them out to their staff...
by crauter | Sep 14, 2017 | Research News
Our research repository Cronfa now displays a citation count from Scopus if the data is available. Citation data will appear if: The output has a DOI The citation count is greater than zero An example can be seen here (highlighted yellow): Clicking on the...
by crauter | Aug 17, 2017 | Research News
Swansea University’s public repository Cronfa has recently had a few enhancements. One of them is the addition of the Altmetric “donut” (or “bagel”, if you prefer). We have blogged about altmetrics before: the system counts mentions of a...
by crauter | Aug 14, 2017 | Open Access, Research News
In 2017/18 RCUK expects institutions to make 75% of their RCUK funded research open access. This is a high target so please make sure you make your work open access if they provide your funding. RCUK have clarified the licences allowed on green open...
by crauter | Aug 1, 2017 | Research News
Scopus has introduced PlumX metrics into Scopus, following their recent takeover of the company. These come in 5 categories: Usage – e.g. clicks, downloads, views, library holdings Captures – indicating that someone wants to come back to the work –...
by crauter | Jul 26, 2017 | Research News
Universities already have their world rankings (and some REF areas) assessed with metrics. Individual researchers may well find they are being asked about their own metrics. This post lists four places to check your bibliometric profile and consider how well it...
by crauter | Jul 24, 2017 | Research News
The range of metrics (or indicators) being used to measure research impact is growing and the issues around them are complex. If you are interested in exploring this area there is an excellent resource produced by 3 Irish academic libraries: MyRI Measuring your...
by crauter | Jul 17, 2017 | Research News
An ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a unique identifier used by publishers, booksellers, libraries, etc. for ordering, listing, and stock control purposes. The ISBN identifies the publisher as well as the specific title, edition and format. There is no...
by crauter | Jun 19, 2017 | Research News
The latest edition of Journal Citation Reports has just been released. JCR ranks journals by the number of citations likely to be received by an article and is often used to help decide which journals to publish in, particularly for STEM subjects. Journal...
by crauter | Jun 14, 2017 | Open Access
We are just over a year into the REF Open Access policy; our own institutional open access policy (PDF) came out in March 2015. Taking a look at our repository back and front ends, we can see how deposit and full text rates have varied over time. The figures are as...
