ETD2014 – Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2014
I recently helped out running Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2014 at University of Leicester 23rd – 25th July 2014 with colleagues from Academic Liaison in the Library. Before the event I was wondering what more there was to be said about Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs): I learned that: Many places in the world are just […]
Publisher-librarian round table, 20 May 2014
SCONUL e-monthly April 2014 had [links added by me] One-day workshop on open access, London, 20 May BMJ, IOP Publishing, Royal Society Publishing and the Royal Society of Chemistry are working in collaboration with the Research Information Network (RIN) to run a one-day workshop on open access (OA), in order to understand how institutions have […]
Making Data Discoverable
On Friday 25th October 2013 I attended a workshop on Making Data Discoverable put on by Data.ac.uk who work on linked open data development for academia. The session was held at the very shiny offices of the Open Data Institute (ODI) in the City in London. There were few of us participants and several presenters from University of Southampton […]
Trust and Digital Preservation
On 4th June 2013 I attended the first day of Trust and Digital Preservation organised by the Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network (APARSEN) at the elegant library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. We were welcomed by William Kilbride, Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and given an Introduction to the […]
Symplectic 5th user conference
On 28 May 2013 I went to the 5th of Symplectic’s user conferences at Woburn House in London. We use their Elements product for our Integrated Research Information System (IRIS): for the University of Leicester’s internal research data management. Elements sits connected to many sources of publication information and presents researchers with an online CV of their publications and links […]
Linking datasets and articles for publication
On 30 April 2013 I attended Linking datasets and articles for publication – cross-linking and workflows at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the countryside in Oxfordshire. I used to live in High Wycombe and hadn’t seen the soaring Red Kite birds for years so I enjoyed the trip to the lab. (Thanks to Chris Frewin for the picture) […]
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