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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...

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 ...

Our colleagues in IT Services offer software and training that may be of interested to researchers: Work off-campus - instructions on accessing email, files and installing Office on your own machine. Programs for home use - information on software you can install at home for free or at a discount, such as NVivo, SAS and SPSS Research computing facilities - for those that might need high performance computing, wikis or filedrop services Help & training - they run training courses on a variety of Office programs. We would highly recommend the Word - Long Document Essentials training to anyone writing a thesis. If you will need to use software packages to analysis statistics or data then we suggest you look at the Research Methods & Methodologies training available from our colleagues in Researcher Development. And don't forget that the library also runs lots of training for researchers too!