Open research practices

The results of a survey of Wellcome researchers to find out what they think about open research, how they practice it, and some of the barriers they face have just been published in a report. This work was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust and conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and […]

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Open Access: Publisher memberships

Publisher memberships   The University currently provides a fund of £250k to spend on Open Access: publisher memberships, APC and publication costs.  To apply to the APC fund you need to fulfil eligibility criteria – see here for further information and the application form.   Many publishers now offer discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs), so […]

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Our favourite Open Access films

  If you want to learn more about Open Access these are our favourite short films explains what Open Access is and what Licences are. “What is Open Access”  “Creative Commons: a shared culture” Don’t forget we have loads of information on our web pages at http://www.stir.ac.uk/is/researchers/writing/publishingimpact/open-access/   JISC – Open Access hour: live Twitter […]

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Malicious telephone calls

Please be advised that a number of staff have reported receiving telephone calls from unknown or other external numbers on their University extensions, which appear to be malicious cold-callers.  Typically, the phone calls have been either accident-claim companies, or individuals claiming to be from the University IT department and/or ‘Windows Technical Support’,  requesting access to […]

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Endnote training in August – sign up now

Following last week’s posting about the launch of Endnote bibliographic software, Information Services is pleased to announce a number of training sessions in August.   Wednesday 3rd August – workshops delivered by a trainer from Endnote Endnote Desktop Fundamentals (9:30 – 11) – read more, and book now. Endnote Online for off campus use (11:30 – 12:30) […]

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