L&LR staff blog

I spent Friday at Leicester University at the meeting of UKCORR (UK Council of Research Repositories).  Presentations about Journal ToCs, SHERPA ROMEO, CADAIR among others were all very interesting but it was even more useful to discuss issues with other people in same position as us.  REF, implications of mandate and, especially, eTheses seem to [...]

Interesting meeting for UKCORR

The slides that Philippa and I prepared for the “Copyright, teaching and Blackboard – staying legal” workshops are now available online. Please feel free to use, re-use, or edit. Copyright, teaching and Blackboard – staying legal by Philippa Dyson & Paul Stainthorp is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales [...]

I’ve been in London for a couple of days, obsessively seeking out free wifi so that I can test out the new L&LR netbook PC, which is one of these. Observations on the device: 9″ screen fine; mini-keyboard fine and actually easier to use in a confined space (e.g. the 17:03 from King’s Cross to [...]

Lis-copyseek is a closed discussion list for copyright permission seekers to share information and experience.  On 5 March 2009, some of the leading lights on lis-copyseek organised a copyright seminar held at the John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester. Professor Charles Oppenheim from Loughborough was in the chair. Jason Miles-Campbell from JISC Legal spoke [...]

We’ve just had a meeting with David Crook of the CLA, about the new (comprehensive) Higher Education Licence, which covers photocopying, scanning, and now digital use. You can read the new licence user guidelines, at: http://www.cla.co.uk/assets/169/uukguildhe_userguidelines.pdf Key differences between the old licence and the new: We’re now permitted to photocopy material published in Italy and [...]

A few people have asked me if it’s possible to create reliable, persistent links to journal articles on Blackboard, via the link resolver, but without having to use the LibraryLink OpenURL tool. Yes, it is (Word doc.) When you add the resulting link to Blackboard, you must make sure that it’s set to open in [...]

Last Tuesday, the 16th of September, I attended the first meeting of the University’s new Institutional Repository Steering Group. The group has representatives from L&LR, ICT Services (formerly known as CS!), C.E.R.D., the Research Office, and the faculties, and is chaired by Prof. Andrew Hunter, Dean of Research. Its job is to make recommendations relating [...]

The University of Michigan have a video podcast on their website about their new “Espresso Book Machine”, which prints on-demand, out-of-copyright or open-content books for their users, for around £3-£5 (at today’s exchange rate!) in under 10 minutes. Video at: http://www.ns.umich.edu/podcast/video.php?id=405 Story in Business Week, spotted on LISNews.org Paul

Welcome to issue thirteen of the Library and Learning Resources newsletter “The Buzz”. The aim of the newsletter is to share news and information between teams and campuses. Ultimately it hopes to find out what staff are doing, what is new in the department and to improve communication between all staff. Read on…