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 [...]

On 17th September, Jill Partridge (Library & LR) and David Young (University Research Office) attended the faculty of Media, Humanities and Technology annual research conference where they delivered a short presentation on open access, the repository and benefits to staff. Here’s David’s write-up of that presentation, to be published in the faculty’s newsletter, Ada’s Notes.

Interesting meeting for UKCORR

I’m pleased to be able to announce the existence of a new, temporary virtual team within L&LR, made up of people lucky enough to be working with me on various e-resource-related projects over the coming months. First, Jayne, whom many of you will already know from her work in reader services, is back to support [...]

*Better late than never. In December I went, along with Julian Beckton (C.E.R.D.), to Northampton for an event in their Rockingham Library entitled “Demonstrating and exploiting repository value… a practical, hands on event, to inform advocacy and marketing activities“. Sponsored by the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme, and jointly hosted by the Universities of Northampton [...]

These are my specific objectives for the year ahead – this is where I’m going to take my priorities next. • Complete, and document, the launch of Find it @ Lincoln • Write a draft collection development policy to inform the shift from print to ‘e’ • Pilot digital-to-digital copying under the CLA extended licence [...]

Joss Winn from C.E.R.D. has put together a Netvibes ‘start page’ for his Learning Lab projects, and included (on the Research section of the page), some useful ‘widgets’ of information from the Library, including our blog feed, the podcast tours of the GCW, and search boxes for the catalogue and for the Institutional Repository. You [...]

from Research Office by David HEFCE has published a guide to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), reports ResearchResearch.com: HEFCE – REF Guide (PDF) The guide is a general introduction to the REF, the successor of the RAE, including details on how bibliometrics (citation data) will work. The pilot and consultation are ongoing, so the document [...]

Spotted on Bournemouth University’s Research Support blog: “HEFCE has just published two technical reports on the process for the Research Excellence Framework [REF], Appraisal of Citation Data Sources and Development of Bibliometric Indicators of Research Quality.” Blog link: http://bulib4research.blogspot.com/2008/09/research-excellence-framework-technical.html Site links: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rdreports/2008/rd17_08/ http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rdreports/2008/rd16_08/ Paul

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 [...]