Category Archives: Library
Free access to Liverpool University Press journals during April 2014
To celebrate its tenth birthday, Liverpool University Press is making all of its journal content free for the month of April.
Charles Oppenheim: Visiting Professor in Library and Learning Services
Professor Charles Oppenheim
In possibly the UK’s first arrangement of its kind, Library and Learning Services is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Charles Oppenheim as Visiting Professor to the department.
Professor Oppenheim has had a distinguished professional and academic career and is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of Intellectual Property Rights and scholarly publishing. We are looking forward to benefiting from his expertise in a number of ways. In addition to delivering an annual lecture or workshop on his areas of specialism, Professor Oppenheim will provide academic leadership and mentoring to LLS staff engaged in research activity and will play an active role in the research life of the department.
Palgrave journals: free trial until end of March
The Library has just signed up to the latest Palgrave ‘Access all areas‘ trial – giving you access to all Palgrave journal articles until the end of March. Subject areas covered include a range of business and social sciences (full list here).
To take advantage of this trial:
Checklist for new research students
FAQ: I’ve just started as a research student at the University of Northampton. How do I get access to university IT systems and library resources?
As a new research student it is important that you are quickly able to take advantage of the many resources and services available to you at the university. This checklist will show you how to log in to the different services and tell you where to get help should you have any problems.
(Note: The checklist contains a lot of information and is therefore quite long, but if a quick overview is all you need then check out the summary table toward the end.)
Academic research now available from your local public library
Under the recently launched ‘Access to Research‘ initiative, public libraries are now able to provide walk-in readers with access to a wide range of academic articles and research.
Following the recommendation of the Finch report that the major publishers should grant public libraries a licence to provide free access to their academic articles, the two year Access to Research scheme will enable a new audience of the general public, small businesses and independent researchers to access scholarly research.
New resource: Emerging Markets Case Studies
Submitted by Joanne Farmer, Academic Librarian
We now have access to 250 ‘Emerging Markets’ case studies on the Emerald database. Our new subscription includes perpetual access to all of the 2014 reports and also an archive back to 2011. These reports cover a range of subject areas including Entrepreneurship, International Business, HRM, Management Science, Marketing, Strategy and Tourism and Hospitality. Each case study comes with notes for teachers, which may be accessed via a separate login (teaching staff please contact your librarian for details).
Using doctoral theses in your research – webinar repeated
Sara Gould of the British Library is repeating last year’s webinar on using doctoral theses in research. She writes:
“Please join us for an EThOS webinar to be held on Thursday 13 February 2014, at 15:00 GMT. This will be a repeat of the session we held on 10 December which saw 385 attendees and lots of requests to hold another for colleagues who were unable to join us then.
Title: Using doctoral theses in your research: a guide to EThOS.
NECTAR: What’s in it for me?
NECTAR, the university’s open access institutional repository, is now entering its eighth year, with deposits of both bibliographic data and full content going from strength to strength. But what does this mean to the individual researcher? In the rush to enter details for this report or that, it is easy to overlook the fact that having one’s research outputs in NECTAR delivers a range of benefits.
Spotting the ‘predatory’ publisher
FAQ: A publisher I haven’t heard of has invited me to submit a paper to their journal. How do I know that they are reputable?
Following the publication of the Finch Report and the subsequent actions of the Research Councils, HEFCE and others, there is more pressure than ever for researchers to ensure that their published outputs are made available to all. This has prompted publishers, both established and new, to reconsider their business models and provide new open access publishing options to researchers.
I have written before about how to find an open access journal for your article, but what happens if the publisher approaches you?
Based on the queries I’ve received from researchers, there seem to be two areas of concern.
New(ish) resources from the Library
Submitted by Alan Rosling, Georgina Dimmock and Fiona MacLellan
Taylor & Francis Online is the journal content platform for the Taylor & Francis Group. The platform gives online access to all journals from Taylor & Francis and Routledge. A program of retrodigitization means we have articles going back just over 200 years. Including over 1600 full text titles in Science and Social Science literature this database is a key resource for researchers. Take a look at the short user guide or to access the Taylor and Francis journals directly go to the library’s A-Z list of databases.
UON Graduate School Blog 