In our help sessions on keeping track of your reading, we mention the importance of keeping track of key papers and knowing when they have been cited by other researchers. Did you know that our database search tools will also often allow you to set up alerts, so that you are informed when a specific paper is referenced by another? So, if you have recently published a journal article, you could set up an email alert to let you know if someone else publishes research that cites it. Alternatively, you could set up an alert for any article that is central to your research. One key search tool to offer this is Web of Science. If you are interested in how this works, check out their short help video:
Monday, 21 July 2014
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Two New Open Access Journals - Geo and Burnout Research
In cooperation with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Wiley has launched a new open access environmental and geographical journal called Geo. Similarly, Elsevier have launched a new open access journal called Burnout Research which will be covering the cross-disciplinary phenomenon of burnout.
What's interesting about these titles, apart from the content which might be relevant to your research, is the fact that they're both published by major for-profit publishers and that both are peer-reviewed. Burnout Research and Geo are far from rare in these respects of course, but there is a persistent misconception that open access means lack of scholarly rigour or publisher support.
To publish in either of these titles, authors would pay an article processing fee (APC) of between $750/£440 - $1,800/£1,150. Authors are also able to choose which copyright license to use. This license dictates how the author themself (as well as others) may redistribute the article, regardless of the fact that '[a]ll articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute' according to Elsevier.
Though certain scholarly societies have in the past been resistent to open access publishing, Geo's support from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) demonstrates that APCs might help to fund scholarly societies in the way that subscriptions formerly did. Many societies which formerly opposed open access have modified their policies and launched their own OA journals.
If you're interested in more about open access and what types of journals you might find in your research area, check out last week's post.
What's interesting about these titles, apart from the content which might be relevant to your research, is the fact that they're both published by major for-profit publishers and that both are peer-reviewed. Burnout Research and Geo are far from rare in these respects of course, but there is a persistent misconception that open access means lack of scholarly rigour or publisher support.
To publish in either of these titles, authors would pay an article processing fee (APC) of between $750/£440 - $1,800/£1,150. Authors are also able to choose which copyright license to use. This license dictates how the author themself (as well as others) may redistribute the article, regardless of the fact that '[a]ll articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute' according to Elsevier.
Though certain scholarly societies have in the past been resistent to open access publishing, Geo's support from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) demonstrates that APCs might help to fund scholarly societies in the way that subscriptions formerly did. Many societies which formerly opposed open access have modified their policies and launched their own OA journals.
If you're interested in more about open access and what types of journals you might find in your research area, check out last week's post.
Monday, 7 July 2014
Open Access Journals
We've done a couple of posts recently about the Open Access movement and how it also links with the requirements of the next REF. One option for article publication will be to do so via a purely open access journal (i.e. one that has rigorous peer review but is freely available on the Internet, without subscription). This will adhere to the principles of Gold Open Access, without you or your institution having to pay additional fees.
You can check possible publication options and their policies and fees using the Sherpa Romeo service. However, if you just want to find titles that are open access, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a good place to start. You can check out the titles in your research area and also assess whether they are good options for your publication. You may also find some useful, freely available, research to download whilst you are there.
Publishing open access isn't just about adhering to REF. It's also a great way of getting your research circulated and letting more people see what you do.
We'll be doing more posts on the different types of open access in the coming months, but if you need to know anything in particular, please contact your Academic Liaison Librarian.
You can check possible publication options and their policies and fees using the Sherpa Romeo service. However, if you just want to find titles that are open access, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a good place to start. You can check out the titles in your research area and also assess whether they are good options for your publication. You may also find some useful, freely available, research to download whilst you are there.
Publishing open access isn't just about adhering to REF. It's also a great way of getting your research circulated and letting more people see what you do.
We'll be doing more posts on the different types of open access in the coming months, but if you need to know anything in particular, please contact your Academic Liaison Librarian.
Thursday, 26 June 2014
NVivo Training
You might remember that YSJ purchased a license for NVivo software last March, which you can access from the virtual desktop. Leah will be offering some introductions to NVivo over the summer. Click a date to register (via EventBrite).
This will be a brief introduction to a powerful software.
90 minutes will allow you to see what the software offers, how it might be
relevant to your research, and whether NVivo’s 2 day official training would be
right for you. There will be about 30-45 minutes for you to experiment with
your data in NVivo, so please make some data available to yourself on the S
drive or bring it on a USB stick. Data can be text, audio, video, pictures and
data sets. A complete list of file formats for NVivo can be found here.
If you can’t bring data to the workshop, you can access NVivo’s sample data.
If none of these times work for you, please be in touchwith times/days that work better. Feel free to pass this information along to others at YSJ.
If you have 9 minutes, here’s a YouTube introduction
to NVivo
Monday, 16 June 2014
Pardon the noise (and dust!)
Summer is a busy time for libraries. If you've come to Fountains in the last week, you may have seen new shelves being built, books and furniture being moved and carpets being refreshed. There have also been some book stock moves, so if you can't find the books where you are accoustomed to seeing them, you're not going crazy, we have indeed moved them. At the end of this month, we'll also begin placing RFID tags in each book and soundproofing the second floor. Not to mention the digital upgrades you can't see!
We know it's also a busy time for you, and apologise for the noise, dust and changes which may be inconvenient for those of you trying to access Fountains throughout the summer. If you are having trouble finding the books you need or a quiet place to work, please come down to Question Point for guidance.
We know it's also a busy time for you, and apologise for the noise, dust and changes which may be inconvenient for those of you trying to access Fountains throughout the summer. If you are having trouble finding the books you need or a quiet place to work, please come down to Question Point for guidance.
Monday, 9 June 2014
Copyright changes: good news for researchers
You may be aware that new exceptions to copyright legislation came into effect on 1 June 2014. We won't go into all of them in detail here, but we are happy to report a couple of key improvements for researchers.
We will be updating our copyright guidance on the ILS website very soon, to reflect these exceptions. We have a new librarian starting at YSJ this month and part of her remit is to focus on copyright issues, so we are sure she will have lots of ideas for dialogue with the research community here on these topics. In the meantime, here is the official guide for researchers from the Intellectual Property Office. We also recommend the resources specifically about these new exceptions on the Jisc Legal website and the advice from the London School of Economics.
Please remember that ILS can help with copyright and intellectual property advice, but we are not legal experts! We very much recommend checking out the official guidance from the Intellectual Property Office listed above and getting individual advice if this doesn't answer your specific questions.
Copyright Symbol by David Wees. Used under CC BY 2.0. Available from https://flic.kr/p/bD6e8F
Text and data mining
If you already have legal access to a piece of research (e.g. access to a journal article via a YSJ ILS subscription), you now have the right to use the data within for your own, non-commercial research (e.g. for computational analysis), without seeking permission from the rights holder. This is only if you have legal access to the published research and if it is for non-commercial purposes, but it is a good step forward in data sharing.Extension of works allowed to be copied
There have previously been restrictions on the types of work that one is allowed to copy for research. These have been extended, so you can now copy, for example, limited passages from sound recordings or films, for non-commercial research purposes. As long as this is considered a fair amount to use and the original source is accredited, this means you are able to use a much wider range of resources in your studies.We will be updating our copyright guidance on the ILS website very soon, to reflect these exceptions. We have a new librarian starting at YSJ this month and part of her remit is to focus on copyright issues, so we are sure she will have lots of ideas for dialogue with the research community here on these topics. In the meantime, here is the official guide for researchers from the Intellectual Property Office. We also recommend the resources specifically about these new exceptions on the Jisc Legal website and the advice from the London School of Economics.
Please remember that ILS can help with copyright and intellectual property advice, but we are not legal experts! We very much recommend checking out the official guidance from the Intellectual Property Office listed above and getting individual advice if this doesn't answer your specific questions.
Copyright Symbol by David Wees. Used under CC BY 2.0. Available from https://flic.kr/p/bD6e8F
Tuesday, 3 June 2014
EndNote License
We just sent you and your supervisors an email to let you know that EndNote have changed their license terms in such a way that Endnote can only be accessed on YSJ’s university PCs and we can no longer provide access to the software via the virtual desktop.
This could have quite an impact on your work if you're an EndNote user and accustomed to using the virtual desktop from home or from De Grey.
If you'd like to take
this opportunity to copy your EndNote library into RefWorks, your academic liaison librarian would be happy to give support individually or to do a group
workshop on this process. Copying EndNote libraries and importing them into RefWorks has gone smoothly thus far! If you'd like to give it a try on your own, RefWorks have an online guide to transferring your references across.
For those of you who have begun using EndNote for your dissertation and have already written Word documents with EndNote citations embedded, we understand that switching to RefWorks at this point might cause significant challenges. Please let us know who you are so we can reach an individual solution.
If you haven't yet started using software to manage your reference library and create bibliographies, consider doing so over the summer. Here's a bit more information on RefWorks at YSJ, including links to help pages and YouTube tutorials.
If you haven't yet started using software to manage your reference library and create bibliographies, consider doing so over the summer. Here's a bit more information on RefWorks at YSJ, including links to help pages and YouTube tutorials.
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