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Library events for International Open Access Week, 23-29 October 2023
International Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. This year’s theme, Community Over […]
Changes to the Doctoral College Reading Room
The Doctoral College Reading Room on the first floor of the Library is a dedicated study space for Postgraduate Research Students (PGRs) and staff. Those of you that use the reading room regularly will have seen that the space is changing due to a reconfiguration within the Library. Thank you for your patience whilst we […]
Museums in Ukraine and a tribute to Jim Roberts
Museum and Society have published a new issue on University of Leicester Open Journals. It is a special issue about museums in Ukraine, and will be of interest to anyone involved in partnership work with Ukrainian heritage organisations and universities. Articles include: and more. Read them all here. There is also a tribute to Jim […]
Open access deal with Springer Nature
Following a year-long negotiation led by Jisc, the University of Leicester is among UK universities who have agreed a new, three-year read and publish open access (OA) deal with Springer Nature. The negotiations were governed by pre-agreed sector requirements. Following the signing and implementation of the agreement, our university will work alongside the sector to […]
How to use IIIF with Special Collections Online
We have recently added a new function called IIIF, and its associated Mirador viewer, to our Special Collections Online platform. If you haven’t heard of IIIF before: it stands for International Image Interoperability Framework. It is a technology that allows you view media files from online collections in a single, user-friendly viewer. It’s been developed […]
Event: Update on UKRI Open Access books policy
Join us on the 17 July for an important update on UKRI’s open access policy for academic books. Library Research Services will be explaining how to apply to UKRI’s new fund for open access academic books. This event is intended for anyone who currently holds funding from UKRI and its sub-councils (AHRC, ESRC etc.), or […]
New ways of using the Historical Directories collection
Over the last 18 months, we have been collaborating with a research project called the Congruence Engine. One strand of the project has been experimenting with new ways of using our Historical Directories collection. Daniel Wilson from the project has written a blog post this week getting into the technical side of this. The workshop […]
Views of England and Wales: a new online collection
This week we are pleased to launch Views of England and Wales, the latest collection to be added to University of Leicester Special Collections Online. We have now published over 2,000 images of historic landscapes, buildings and monuments belonging to the Centre for Regional and Local History. The majority of images are prints made in the […]
Introducing the SafePod – a new way to access sensitive data
The door to the SafePod on the ground floor of the David Wilson Library The Library is now home to a SafePod: a local, safe environment where researchers can access sensitive datasets. Registered researchers can now use specialist data from the UK Data Service, SAIL Databank, Office for National Statistics, the Scottish Government and Health […]
University of Leicester is now a supporter of DOAJ
We are delighted to announce that University of Leicester is now an institutional supporter of the Directory Open Access Journals (DOAJ). As part of our commitment to supporting open scholarship, we have signed-up as an official supporter (in the sustaining category). DOAJ is an index of open access journals from around the world. It […]