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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
During my time here in Archives and Special Collections I want to highlight something I have found interesting – the distinct patterns found in some rare books. Many notice the leather bindings and the gold tooling but we tend to miss the endpapers. Most of the time when we open a book, we go straight […]
Guest post by Natasha Callis, work experience student. This week, I’ve been doing work experience at the University of Leicester Library. I have worked in lots of different departments have completed lots of different, small tasks related to each area of work in the library, and I have found it to be really informative. When […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
