
The name of the author
You might think that knowing who wrote a research paper would be simple. It isn’t. So? Why does it matter who wrote a paper? I immediately think of recognition, credit (or criticism!) and to read more from the same author. Perhaps we want to contact the author for collaboration or consultancy or to link them […]

Ideas for tools for helping with Open Access publication
I find tools from SHERPA useful. I like to keep an eye on what I’d ideally like as well as what is currently available both for me and people I work with. In tools to help with Open Access publishing: For researchers: A clear choice between contractual choices for a journal, with a small number […]

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 […]

Open Access Forum – 4th April 2014
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 […]

Top ten book chapters in LRA
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 […]
Recent most popular Open Access publications range across seven decades
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 […]

Compliance Venn Diagram
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 […]
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