Author Archives: Miggie Pickton
Research Council requirements for data management – workshop and clinic
Don’t forget this Wednesday’s workshop featuring the Research Council requirements for data management, to be hosted by the School of Social Sciences:
Research Council requirements for data management
Many research funders have issued policies that require researchers to effectively manage, and where possible, share their data. The main expectations are reflected in a set of common principles, released by RCUK in 2011. This workshop aims to demystify funder requirements and provide practical guidelines on how to meet them.
- Hosted by: School of Social Sciences
- Intended audience: Research active staff and research students in social sciences
- When: Wednesday 27th February 10am – 12 noon
- Where: Naseby N25
- Contact: Miggie Pickton
There will also be an opportunity for individuals to chat through the data management aspects of their latest funding bids, or to discuss any other data management issues. Contact Miggie for a one-to-one appointment. Half hour slots are available from 1pm to 3pm in F39.
Research with impact
A reinterpretation of ‘research impact’ for a Friday afternoon…
Image credit: Research Counselling (2011)
RDM workshops for Graduate School and NBS – slides available
Yesterday’s research data management (RDM) workshops with Sarah Jones and Marieke Guy of the DCC sparked a lot of interest from researchers. For those that were unable to attend, the slides are here:
NELSON upgrade Sunday 24th February
The software behind the Library’s resource discovery system, NELSON, is being upgraded this weekend.
During the upgrade you will only be able to access NELSON in ‘search’ mode, you will not be able to save items to your eShelf. Additionally, links between NELSON and the library catalogue may be temporarily unavailable.
A message displaying this information has been posted on the NELSON home page.
Following the upgrade you will have further options to personalise your search results by discipline and the ability to refine a search by including and excluding multiple topic areas.
Image credit: Compass by Roland Urbanek
Event at the British Library – Open Data: What’s the Use?
This event is part of the British Library’s ‘Inspiring Science’ event series. Pre-booking is essential.
TalkScience@BL Open Data: What’s the Use?
A discussion with Professor Nigel Shadbolt
19 March 2013, 18.20 – 20.30
The British Library (Terrace Restaurant)
£5, Booking Required, Light refreshments provided. Booking is via the Box Office
Managing your research data – forthcoming workshops
As part of our ongoing engagement with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) we have arranged the following workshops:
- Managing data through the research lifecycle
- Managing your PhD research data
- Research Council requirements for data management
All sessions will be led by experts in data management from the DCC.
Increasing your citation count – a how-to guide
FAQ: How can I ensure my work is highly cited?
As a researcher there are a number of ways you can give your citation counts a boost, here are some suggestions.
Content is key
- Produce a piece of well written, top quality, original research. This is essential.
Another one bites the dust…
There are a number of potentially useful reference management tools on the web – Mendeley, CiteULike, Zotero and Connotea spring to mind. The best of these offer a range of other services, such as full text uploads, social bookmarking and a variety of other networking opportunities for researchers.
But can you trust these sites? Will your data be secure and are you sure that you will be able to access them when you need to?
Assessing journal quality – alternatives to JCR
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is the definitive source for journal impact factors, probably the most widely recognised quality indicators for journals. But what do you do if your subject area is not well covered by JCR or you would like to see some alternative metrics?
There are a number of tools available. These use a combination of citation analysis, peer review and ranking algorithms to facilitate the evaluation of journals in a range of subject areas.
Renewing your Zetoc Alert
FAQ: My Zetoc Alert is about to expire. How can I renew it?
Anybody that uses Zetoc Alerts to keep up to date with research literature will know that once a year these expire and have to be renewed. This is a straightforward process and simply involves clicking on one of the links given in the reminder email.
The trick is to click on the correct link.
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