Research Skills Training for Autumn 2025
Another term begins, and so too does our research skills training program. We will be offering workshops on areas including literature searching, referencing software, open access, understanding metrics and managing research data. Intended for research students and staff conducting, or supporting, research most of the sessions will be run online. The full program is below. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]