Event: Open Research Week 2024
We have joined forces with Loughborough University and De Montfort University to celebrate Open Research Week 2024 (26 Feb – 1 March). A series of online talks promotes the practice of openly sharing and re-using research-related materials, for both education and research. Included are a range of disciplines, research life-cycle stages and experiences. All sessions […]
Call For Papers: Museological Review Issue 27
What if we could trust the ground under our feet? Museums as spaces of rootedness and response-ability Our friends at the journal Museological Review have a new Call for Paper, which we would like to share with you. The submission deadline for abstracts/proposals has been extended to: Monday, January 29 2024. Sometimes it seems like the […]
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 […]
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 […]
A day in the life: research services out and about in Nottingham May 2023
This is the final blog post [3/3] focussing on three different open research events attended by members of the University Library Research Services Team. This post covers an event held very close to home (minimal travel, hurrah), held in Nottingham, at the Nottingham Trent University (NTU). Radoslaw Pajor, research services consultant for research data management […]
A day in the life: research services at Figshare Fest May 2023
Tom Moore, Research Services Consultant for open research recently attended the annual Figshare Fest at Manchester Museum. Our Leicester Research Archive (LRA) is powered by Figshare, and is the institutional all-in-one repository for research data, publications, theses, and much more. Meeting up with colleagues from universities and research institutions is really valuable, a great way to learn […]
A day in the life: research services out and about in Cambridge May 2023
Members of the Library Research Services team (Will and Merinne) recently attended the first face-to-face meeting of the RLUK Open Strategy Network (OSN). RLUK OSN is a professional peer network for RLUK members leading Scholarly Communication, Open Science, Open Research, Open Scholarship and related activities within RLUK member libraries. Working and delivering services and tools […]