Students – we want to hear from you! Tell us what you think about Digital Technology at the University and have a chance of winning an Amazon voucher…

For the third year in a row, we are participating in the JISC Digital Experience Insights survey (previously ‘Tracker’).  We use this survey to find out how you are using digital technology at the University and what we can do to improve our services and support. For example, after you told us in last year’s […]

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Unpaywall for open research: plans for Scopus integration

Described as a “ground-breaking development” towards achieving a true open research infrastructure, Unpaywall is a database listing almost 20 million freely available scholarly articles.   This free service locates open-access articles and presents paywalled papers that have been legally archived and are freely available on other websites to users who might otherwise have hit a paywalled […]

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Journal Citation Reports: 2018 release

This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is an immensely useful tool that lists Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) and other journal metrics. JCR can help you:   – identify journals with the highest citation impact in your field – find the most influential journals in which to publish   Each […]

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Web of Science: latest release updates

The Web of Science platform was updated on Sunday 25th March. There is a 4 minute ‘New Features’ video at: https://youtu.be/KfY4PWui7ig   Details of the changes are also outlined in their release notes below.   Web of Science is a multidisciplinary service for finding details of research articles and other publication types, covering: Sciences, Social […]

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