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Do you need to share references with collaborators? Or make a bibliography available to a wider audience? Or crowd-source information about publications or objects? Then you may find Zotero's Groups functions useful. Zotero is software that helps researchers and students to organise references and cite them. It works in similar ways to other products like EndNote, RefWorks and Mendeley. It is distinctive however, in being run on a nonprofit, open-source basis.  As well as having a personal reference library, you can also create Groups where you share references with others. Groups can be restricted or very open. There are three types: ' private', 'public  closed' or 'public open'. Y ou can control the ability of others to edit records in the group.     Users can search, sort and browse the references and export citations if they wish. They can  read any notes or tags that have been saved. In private or closed groups,...

Just over a year ago at the University of Leicester Library, we were looking at the download stats for our online PhD theses and noticed that a study of the village of Wrangle in the early modern period was the most downloaded item that month. This got us thinking. Of all the open access theses and research publications in our online archive what is actually popular with users? Medicine and health related items do well, presumably from people searching for information on illnesses and conditions. The other studies that consistently attract downloads are those about a particular place. Broadly speaking these are from geography, archaeology and history. Open access policy has been driven by the sciences and has tended to assume that freely available publications are an unproblematic ‘good thing’. It has paid less attention to what is popular, with whom and why. Inspired by the example of Wrangle, we decided to explore creating a new resource to promote the open access local...

The Library offers several services to help you publish and disseminate your research. We can help you publish reports, journals and conference proceedings. We also support the publishing of digital collections. Research publications  The Library can help you to publish one-off reports in an open access format. See this example  from the  SAPPHIRE Group in Health Sciences .  If you want to start a new open access journal or conference proceedings, we have our own version of Open Journal Systems (OJS). This is journal management and publishing platform for academic  publications. Articles published through this system are free to any reader, and no APCs are charged to authors.  Please contact Library Research Services for more information: librarians@le.ac.uk Digital collections  Some researchers will be collecting materials as part of a project, and may want to publish them online. The Lib...