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Media, English and Culture Seminar, 8th November at 6pm
‘A child of the sun’: Katherine Mansfield’s Spiritual Journey, presented by Gerri Kimber Read the rest of this entry
NECTAR, faster: import your publications with a DOI
We’re always delighted when staff and researchers add their work to NECTAR, the university’s research repository. It helps develop NECTAR as a comprehensive showcase of our research output, it helps authors by pushing the work to their staff profiles and NECTAR-friendly web resources like Google Scholar, and it helps schools by driving annual research reports and the REF.
But we’re also aware that adding an item takes time, and time is a valuable commodity. In this post I’ll show you how to use a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to get your work into NECTAR as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Redirect your university email to a personal address
FAQ: How do I redirect my university email to a personal address?
In this post I’ll demonstrate how to use Outlook to redirect emails from your university email address to a personal email account. All you’ll need for this is a web browser. Once this is set up, any email to your @northampton.ac.uk address will be sent on to the address you enter (a copy will remain in your university inbox). Redirection can be turned off and on easily.
Blogs added, blogs wanted
We’ve added some new university staff and researcher blogs to our blogroll in the right-hand column:
At History at The University of Northampton Dr. Drew Gray and the history staff are posting on a variety of interesting topics including crime and punishment, Northampton Castle, motherhood in the media and political strategy.
Cotswold History is the blog of PhD researcher Nell Darby and focuses on the social history of the Cotswolds region, with posts on cautionary tales, local eccentrics, magic lanterns and everyone’s favourite, murder walks.
Professor Mike Redwood is a seasoned blogger whose posts on the global leather industry date back to 2007. He has recently posted from the Netherlands, Shanghai, Germany and everyone’s favourite, Northampton on leather and its relation and relevance to the University of Northampton.
These new sites join our existing link to the blog of Professor Jeff Ollerton, whose diverse posts revolve around biodiversity by way of creationism, architecture, post-everything activism and everyone’s favourite, toilet seats.
If you’re a blogging PhD or staff researcher we’d love to add your site to our list – please contact Nick with the details.
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RefWorks induction 2012: notes and links
This is a follow-up post to the research student induction RefWorks training, with notes on the session and some useful links. Those of you who attended the attempted session will be amused (hopefully) to learn that the authentication problem was fixed shortly after everyone went home, and RefWorks logins are now working as they should.
NELSON and RefWorks – capturing your references
FAQ: How can I save items from NELSON to my RefWorks account?
NELSON is Library and Learning Services’ new resource discovery tool. It searches across a range of services including journals (full-text and abstract), ebooks and the library catalogue.
While researchers often benefit from searching databases directly, one advantage NELSON offers is a standard interface for several functions and services, including RefWorks, the University’s reference management software. RefWorks lets you collect, manage, share and annotate your references, and helps you cite them in Word. Whatever you find in NELSON, exporting it to RefWorks is quick and painless. In this post I’ll show you how to copy single and multiple items from NELSON into your RefWorks account.
Developing methods for the microanalysis of online data
Date: 9-10 January 2013
Venue: Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Workshop fee: none. Lunch and dinner (day 2) and coffee/tea are included. Read the rest of this entry
“What’s Happiness in Hamlet?”
Dr Richard Chamberlain will be giving his research seminar, “What’s Happiness in Hamlet?” at 1pm on Tuesday 23rd October in MY 120. Please come along: Read the rest of this entry
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