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30 minute updates on key information issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too! Or you can join in the webinar. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. Friday 20 th  July 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st  Floor, David Wilson Library Managing and sharing your research data outputs: what do you do with your research data? Laurian Williamson Discover best practice in planning, managing, storing, and sharing your research data outputs. The University of Leicester will soon be launching a Figshare-powered digital data repository and this session will demonstrate how you can deposit and share your research data outputs. Link to webinar:  https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/ca065d0673c84b06812b84af43769fe6 Listen Again to our 2018 Elevenses: Funder Requirement to share your publications via Europe PMC:  https://youtu.be/-2...

There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too! Or you can join in the webinar. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. Thursday 5 th  July 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st  Floor, David Wilson Library Funder requirements to share publications with Europe PMC   Grant Denkinson & Tom Moore Many funders require researchers to make their publications available via Europe Pubmed Central (Europe PMC). This session will cover: -            How to find out what your funder requires -            How to either have your publisher submit your work to Europe PMC or do it yourself Link to webinar:   https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/383a17b9462b45d0a943209c60a67f27

New ‘Research Elevenses’ 30 minute updates on key information issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too! Or you can join in the webinar. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. Thursday 5 th July 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st Floor, David Wilson Library Funder requirements to share publications with Europe PMC   Grant Denkinson & Tom Moore Many funders require researchers to make their publications available via Europe Pubmed Central (Europe PMC). This session will cover: -           How to find out what your funder requires -           How to either have your publisher submit your work to Europe PMC or do it yourself Link to webinar:   https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/383a17b9462b45d0a943209c60a67f27 Thursday 12 th July 1...

We now have recordings available of our latest set of Research Elevenses: Satisfying Your Funder’s Open Access Requirements Introduction to SciVal – Research Performance Metrics Tool Catalogue your personal library

Catalogue your personal library Wednesday 7 th  February 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st  Floor, David Wilson Library Selina Lock Not sure what books you have in your office or at home? Keep accidentally buying the same book twice? Want to be able to check your personal library via a phone app? This session will introduce you to some free, visual tools that let you easily and quickly catalogue your own personal library. Link to webinar:  https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/dd6231c06c8e41cbb762ae2c5721a7a3 Please contact  Selina  if you have any question s: librarians@le.ac.uk

Our second talk in this year's Research Elevenses is: Introduction to SciVal – Research Performance Metrics Tool Wednesday 31 st  January 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st  Floor, David Wilson Library Dr William Farrell SciVal is one of the leading tools for research evaluation. Using data from Scopus and other sources it allows you to analyse publication and citation metrics, patent data, grant information and media impact. You can benchmark yourself, your institution or your research group against comparable peers. Plus many more features. This session will introduce you to some of the basic functions of SciVal and how it is useful for understanding research performance. Link to webinar:  https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/677ac91fbae84f82828b2b9dd6479b9a

30 minute updates on key information issues for Leicester researchers Library Research Services are running a series of 30 minute talks on key issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too! If you are off-campus you can join in the webinar. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. Satisfying Your Funder’s Open Access Requirements Wednesday 24 th  January 11am, Consultation Room, Doctoral College Reading Room, 1 st  Floor, David Wilson Library Grant Denkinson If you have research funding from a funding council, charity or elsewhere they may require you make your publications Open Access in particular ways. You might have to do extra things as well as meeting the HEFCE / REF and university policy which applies to all research staff. It is usually relatively simple to comply and not doing so may jeopardise your funding. Open Access and Research Data Advisor Grant Denkin...

If you missed any of our Research Elevenses this month then you can now watch the recordings - available for anyone to watch: Software sustainability for open scholarship Grant Denkinson The global movement towards open access has led to sharing publications with the world and increasingly sharing some research data.  For some, the method and process of research is encoded in software. How do we pass on that knowledge too? Whether you have written a couple of lines of scripts or a few macros to make manipulate your data or whether you are part of a consortium of programmers developing a package widely used in your field you may be thinking of reusing your code in the future or sharing it with colleagues. This session will introduce a few tips for making your software sustainable and sharable. Watch Now:  https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3g2byx97a3/   Introducing Humanities Commons Dr William Farrell Humanities Commons is the new networking website pr...

     Our next Elevenses is on alternative book publishing with Professor Martin Parker from the School of Business.    The rising price of academic books have led some authors to explore alternative ways of publishing. This talk will look at the experiences of authors who have published with small presses, experimented with new forms or self-published their work. All welcome. The webinar link is:  https://connect.le.ac.uk/altbookpub Martin Parker's co-authored book  Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England: The Dark Arts of Projectors   was published by Zero Press, a new alternative publisher.  Recording of this, and previous talks, will be available on this blog next week. 

If you didn't make it to Grant Denkinson's talk on  Software sustainability for Open Scholarship, you can now listen again via this link:   https://connect.le.ac.uk/p3g2byx97a3/ Next week's talk is about Humanities Commons, the new academic networking website from the Modern Languages Association. All welcome, and there is no need to book: please just turn up on the day.  If you can't make it in person, the webinar link is: https://connect.le.ac.uk/humanitiescommons And a recording will be made available on this blog at the end of next week. 

New ‘Research Elevenses’ for July This July we are running a series of 30 minute talks on key issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! Refreshments provided too! If you are off-campus you can join in live via Adobe Connect. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. Tuesday 11 th July 11am, Fielding Johnson South Wing, Ogden Lewis Seminar Suite 3 Software sustainability for open scholarship Grant Denkinson The global movement towards open access has led to sharing publications with the world and increasingly sharing some research data.  For some, the method and process of research is encoded in software. How do we pass on that knowledge too? Whether you have written a couple of lines of scripts or a few macros to make manipulate your data or whether you are part of a consortium of programmers developing a package widely used in your field you may be thinking of reusing your code in the future ...

You can now view the videos for all our January research Elevenses: "What can Library Research Services do for you?" Watch the recording:  https://connect.le.ac.uk/p5ntjj3z1b4/ "Media Resources for Research" Watch the recording:  https://connect.le.ac.uk/p9i2b23amci/ Links to the resources Andrew demonstrated in the talk: Media resources (including Vogue & BoB):  http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/subjects/media TRILT: Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching   News:  http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/news/news Historical news:  http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/subjects/history/historicalnews Subsequently, we found that you CAN search  Factiva  for news photographs and video. Run your keyword search and then use the limits ‘Pictures’ or ‘Multimedia’. "Using Metrics Responsibly" Watch the recording:  https://connect.le.ac.uk/p31vw7ner1k/ If you have any questions about any ...

The next Elevenses will be on Using Metrics Responsibly. It will be of interest to anyone involved in research evaluation and impact. Or those who would like the policy talk around 'metrics' de-mystified. Do join us on Wednesday in the room, or via the webinar.  Link to webinar :  https://connect.le.ac.uk/metrics/ A recording of this talk will be made available on the  Graduate School Reading Room blog  on Friday 27th. 

My colleague Andrew Dunn gave a very informative talk on Wednesday on Media Resources for Research. The recording is now available for you to view again: https://connect.le.ac.uk/p9i2b23amci/ Links to the resources Andrew showed us Media resources (including Vogue & BoB): http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/subjects/media TRILT: Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching   News: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/news/news Historical news: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/subjects/history/historicalnews Subsequently, we found that you CAN search Factiva for news photographs and video. Run your keyword search and then use the limits ‘Pictures’ or ‘Multimedia’. If you have any further questions, please do contact Andrew or myself: librarians@le.ac.uk

A new term begins and so does a new series of Research Elevenses. These are 30 minute updates on key issues for Leicester researchers. Come along in person or join the webinar. The second in the series is: Andrew Dunn, Librarian for the Social Sciences will be presenting.  Details Wednesday 18th January, 11am in Attenborough 210 Link to webinar: https://connect.le.ac.uk/media/   To join the webinar, just click enter as a guest. A recording will be available after the session. Missed last week's talk on "What can Library Research Services do for you?" Watch the recording:  https://connect.le.ac.uk/p5ntjj3z1b4/

A new term begins and so does a new series of Research Elevenses. These are 30 minute updates on key issues for Leicester researchers. Come along in person or join the webinar. The first in the series is: Selina Lock, Research Information Advisor for Science, Engineering and Medicine will be presenting.  Details Wednesday 11 January, 11am in Attenborough 210 Watch the recording:  https://connect.le.ac.uk/p5ntjj3z1b4/ To join the webinar, just click enter as a guest. A recording of this talk will be made available on this blog on Friday 13. 

Xmas Holidays This is our last blog post before the Xmas Holidays. Remember that there will be no research librarians available during the University Closure days - from 12noon on Thursday 22nd December until we return on Tuesday 3rd January. If you need to see a research librarian before Xmas then you will need to make a morning appointment with Selina by emailing librarians@le.ac.uk The library building will still be open on some days over Xmas - check the opening hours . Thesis Submission If you wish to be included in the January graduation ceremony you must have submitted an eThesis and completed/signed Final Submission Form to the Library, along with a copy of your bound thesis or confirmation that your bound thesis will be delivered to us by Print Services in the New Year. All theses submitted during the closed period will be confirmed with the Graduate School Office on 3rd January 2017 and will be eligible for the January ceremony. For more information on submitt...

This week I've been finalising the next Research Elevenses series for January 2017.  Elevenses is our seminar series that provides briefings for researchers on the issues that matter. These can about new tools for research, policy updates, or methods of discovering information.  We will reveal the January program next week. Before we do, I thought I would take a look at the 'greatest hits'.  We record and republish the talks to share them widely. The viewing stats reveal that the following are the Top 5 most viewed recordings.  Click on the links below to watch the videos.  1. Unlocking the REF: Text mining to show your impact https://connect.le.ac.uk/p79lknoeq43/ 2. How can we help with your systematic review? https://connect.le.ac.uk/p4myej25euo/ 3. Demonstrating your impact   with the h-index https://connect.le.ac.uk/p51ud1gxajs/ 4. Making an (online) exhibition of yourself with Omeka.net https://connect...

Throughout July we ran a series of short talks about issues of interest to researchers. If you missed them you can now watch the recordings: Discovering the University’s unique archives An overview of what archives are and give an overview of the archives held by the University of Leicester library. Watch the webinar Publishing your own Open Access journal The Library has developed an online publishing platform (Open Journals System) that enables researchers at Leicester to set up and run their own open access journals.  This session offers an overview of the platform and what you need to consider before launching your own title. Watch the webinar Finding datasets for research One of the most common enquiries from researchers is “Where can I find data on my topic?”  This session provides advice on how to find datasets for your research. We will cover a range of subject areas, and also look at the specialist resources to which the Library provides access. ...

The last Elevenses of July will be on Research Data Management, presented by Laurian Williamson, our Open Access and Research Data Manager. Please join us on Wednesday for a 30 minute briefing on this important issue for researchers.  Research Data Management: looking after and managing your research data   11am, Bennett Lower Ground 5 Managing the data you produce during your research activity is becoming increasingly important, for your own personal use, in order to meet funders’ data management requirements, and journals are increasingly requiring submission of data underpinning peer-reviewed publications. Whatever your area of research is, you will be dealing with data in one form or another and this session will explore how to organize and describe your data, data storage and security, and sharing and publishing your data. Join the webinar Please contact  Selina Lock  if you have any questions.