From the afternoon of 18th February 2015 new mandatory questions will be added to the Research Management System (RMS) relating to Open Access publishing. Background On 1st April 2013 the Research Councils UK (RCUK) introduced a new Open Access and Article Processing Charge Policy for publications resulting from their funded projects. The Policy […]
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Japan Week 2015 – Library display of art books
Dr Isao Ichige has donated a beautiful set of books, Nihon Bijutsu Zenshu (Japanese art: the complete works) – essentially a history of Japanese culture – to Stirling University. This valuable set of books contains a comprehensive list of Japanese art objects in full colour and with detailed information for each item from […]
STORRE: Captcha added to “Request a copy” form
Following a recent spate of SPAM “Request a copy” requests being sent out by a SPAM Robot using the STORRE “Request a copy” form (the form that STORRE users can use to request a copy of embargoed items in STORRE directly from the author), we have now added a Captcha to the form which must […]
Impact of articles in STORRE – new Altmetric badges
Altmetric Badges, that give a visual indicator of the impact a publication has had on the Web, have been added to STORRE. As a result of some local development work, you’ll now see the badges at the top of any STORRE record that has an Altmetric score. Altmetrics are a new way […]
Tweet about your thesis #ShareMyThesis
The British Library is currently running a Twitter based competition for all PhD authors and current doctoral students, inviting them to say why their doctoral research is/was important, using the hashtag #ShareMyThesis. It’s great seeing the range of incredible research – https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23sharemythesis&src=typd The competition aims to raise awareness of the importance of […]
DOI links not working – update: now working
The problem below with DOI links has now been resolved and DOI links are working properly again. This was a worldwide problem and it turns out the issue was that “somebody forgot to renew the dx.doi.org domain name” (come on we’ve all done something like that!) – details at: http://crosstech.crossref.org/2015/01/problems-with-dx-doi-org-on-january-20th-2015-what-we-know.html —————- There is currently […]
Digimap: loss of availability 4pm 26th to 9am 28th January
A new registration system has been developed for Digimap. Release of the new system requires a significant period of service unavailability. * New registrations for Digimap (using the current system) will be closed from 4pm Monday 26th January. * Digimap will then be unavailable all day on Tuesday 27th January, while the new system […]
Web of Science: Cited Reference and Advanced searching now available within All Databases
The Web of Science platform was updated at the weekend: Cited Reference searching and Advanced searching are now available within All Databases. Cited Reference searching – All Databases A Cited Reference search allows you to find the articles that cited an article of interest. This is a very useful way to search […]
Top 100 most shared articles of 2014
Altmetric have compiled a list of the top 100 academic research articles that caught the public imagination in 2014. The list is based on mentions from a variety of sources, including: mainstream news, blogs, social media, post-publication peer-review forums and platforms such as Reddit and YouTube. To view the list visit: http://www.altmetric.com/top100. […]
Top Ten favourite characters from a Scottish book
I posted recently about the vote for your favourite character from a Scottish book – well the results are in! Here’s the top 10 – see all the details at the Scottish Book Trust site. 1. Francis Crawford of Lymond The Game of Kings Dorothy Dunnett – see Dorothy Dunnett books in our […]