I regularly see notes about upcoming events, calls for papers, book launches and the like. I see many of these as do many other people. If you want to maximise my time and attention I have a few tips. Most of the time the more extra and unnecessary work I need to do, the less […]
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 […]
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 […]
An author friend flagged up some problems with Green Open Access (OA): A common and baseline important thing: referencing, and the æsthetics and readability of the text. Can the version we archive be referenced in detail in the same way as the published copy of record? Is our archived version beautiful and easy to read? I’m […]
I’ve recently heard of three general areas of concern about Open Access (OA) from more senior colleagues: There are lots of poor quality open access journals out there and some of them are no more than money scams I can’t see the value of open access because my papers are instantly available to other researchers in […]
I’m very pleased to be organising an Open Access forum as part of the University of Leicester Research Festival next Friday 4th April 2014. The blurb reads: Open Access (OA): Broadcasting your research to make a bigger impact worldwide, keeping your funders and employer happy and putting more of the combined observations, analysis and knowledge of […]
I’ve used the IRUS-UK service to find out what book chapters in Leicester Research Archive (LRA) have been most downloaded in last few months. Top of the list is Dr. Corbett, J.M. ‘Technology‘. In: P. Hancock and A. Spicer (eds), Understanding corporate life, Sage, 2009, pp. 10-26. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9839 Perhaps it is because of its ubiquity and taken-for-grantedness in […]
I’ve been taking a look at what has been most popular recently in our Open Access repository of University of Leicester research publications: Our most read Leicester Research Archive (LRA) publication over the last month was Halla Diyab’s 2008 Doctoral Thesis, “Crossing the margin: minorities and marginality in the drama of Tennessee Williams.” Controversy following […]
In conversation this morning I was thinking of how a researcher publishing is responsible for compliance or legal agreement with potentially three parties: their funder, their publisher and their employer. The researcher will also be choosing their own publication preferences. We in the library Research Services can help navigate this space if asked. We know […]
Listening to Dan Porter present to the New History Lab on Friday I thought of some writers who influence me: Alfred Korzybski: Founder of general semantics, a system that I think works well for examining how we model our environments in our minds and where problems can arise in our thinking and communication. Jaron Lanier: […]
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