Author Archives: Miggie Pickton
Researcher help desks – Summer 2015
Open access and your published paper: a guide for authors
FAQ: I have just had an article accepted for publication and I’m unsure of my open access options. What should I do?
With multiple publishing options and a host of sometimes conflicting institutional, funder and publisher requirements, the pathway to open access can sometimes be a confusing one. The guide below is designed to help you navigate the route between having your article accepted for publication and making it open access in an appropriate and timely manner.
The guide covers both ‘green’ and ‘gold’ routes to open access and includes the University’s procedure for handling article processing charges (APCs).
ESRC announces new research data policy
Early last week the Economic and Social Research Council published a new research data policy. Aligned with the RCUK Common Principles on Data Sharing, the policy outlines the obligations of ESRC grant holders and their institutions with respect to the collection, management and re-use of research data. A specific requirement is that grant holders should “generate scientifically robust data ready for further re-use” (ESRC).
Wellcome Trust takes publishers to task
The Wellcome Trust has long had an open access policy, expecting all the authors that they fund to make their published outputs available immediately upon publication in an open access form.
However, in recent years they have stepped up their compliance monitoring, not only of their authors’ publishing behaviours, but also of the publishers’ practices subsequent to publication.
This post, published this week, analyses Wellcome Trust open access spending for the year 2013-2014. It makes fascinating reading.
Violence: Children, family and society conference 2015
Submitted by Associate Professor Jane Callaghan
First call for papers (first call closes 31st March)
We invite submissions for a 3 day conference exploring violence, to be held at the University of Northampton, 24-26 June 2015.
Violence is part of the daily lived experience of many people round the world. As a tool of domination and control, it impacts negatively on people’s health, mental health, interpersonal relationships, harms communities and produces a range of sociopolitical effects. This three day conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary and multi-professional context to consider the experience and impact of violence on children, families, individuals and society. We will also consider interventions and responses to violence at individual, interpersonal, community, political and social levels.
Access all areas: Palgrave’s offer returns
Palgrave is once again offering free online access to their entire portfolio of journals for the whole of March.
The collection covers a range of subjects in business, social sciences and humanities.
To access the journals:
- You must be on campus (authentication is by IP address so you will only be able to access these resources on campus).
- Browse or search for papers:
- Browse by journal title
- Browse journals by subject
- Advanced search (note that the advanced search will return results for ebooks and book chapters, neither of which are included in the trial).
- To get an email alert of new tables of contents, sign up here
Don’t forget: the trial ends on March 31st so make the most of it while you can!
Workshop: The digital academic, research impact and employability
I have just been sent details of the following workshop (thanks to Jeff Ollerton and Cheryl Gardner) which may be of interest to research students and academic staff:
Workshop – ‘The Digital Academic: Tools and Tips for Research Impact and ECR Employability’
Monday 23rd March 2015
Coventry, UK
What does it really mean to be ‘a digital academic’? How can you build your online academic profile via social media? Do hiring committees actually care about your ‘digital academic impact’?
To help you identify the must-have technologies and tools for being a modern digital academic and the skills to manage them successfully, jobs.ac.uk and Piirus are hosting an exclusive half-day workshop event. Find out more and register on Eventbrite.
EThOS Share My Thesis competition
A message from the British Library:
The British Library is currently running a Twitter based competition for all PhD authors and current doctoral students, inviting you to say why your doctoral research is/was important, using the hashtag #ShareMyThesis.
Competition web page – http://www.bl.uk/share-my-thesis/
Data management planning: resources and guides
The creation of a research data management plan (DMP) at the start of a research project is becoming a common requirement. It is increasingly an expectation on the part of funders, sometimes even at the bidding stage, and the University of Northampton’s research data policy and guidance highly recommend it. But what is a DMP and what should it include? Read the rest of this entry
Researcher help desks – Spring 2015
Welcome back to a bright new term!
Dates and times for this term’s researcher help desks are as follows:
Avenue campus (in the library):
- Wednesday 28th January 10am – 12pm
- Monday 9th February 10am – 12pm
- Thursday 26th February 2 – 4pm
- Tuesday 10th March 2 – 4pm
- Thursday 2nd April 10am – 12pm
Park campus (in the library):
- Tuesday 20th January 2 – 4pm
- Monday 2nd February 10am – 12pm
- Wednesday 18th February 10am – 12pm
- Tuesday 3rd March 2 – 4pm
- Thursday 26th March 10am – 12pm
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