Category Archives: Support
Gateway for supervisors – getting started
Gateway is our online postgraduate research (PGR) management system. This post is to help supervisors to get started using it.
Gateway for postgraduate research students – getting started
Gateway is our online postgraduate research (PGR) management system. This post is to help postgraduate researchers (PGRs) to get started using it.
‘Gateway’, the postgraduate research management system
Gateway is our online postgraduate research (PGR) management system. The objectives of the system are to:
- Provide a shared, web-based record system for PGR students, their supervisors, school research leaders and the Graduate School;
- Provide electronic records of supervision meetings;
- Replace paper forms and signatures with electronic workflows and sign-off for all registration, progression and examination processes;
- Provide online booking and records of training and development, accessible to students and supervisors;
- Maintain support and contact with students and supervisors in any location;
- Give access using existing usernames and passwords.
Accessing resources off campus: update
FAQ: Why can’t I access resources off campus?
With very few exceptions (listed here), you should be able to use your university login details to access the library’s resources, irrespective of whether you are located on or off campus.
If you find that you are not being given the opportunity to log in with your university details then there are several possible explanations.
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Essential PhD tips: 10 articles all doctoral students should read
The THE has some useful reading on their Website for research students.Whether you’re still deciding on doing a doctorate or you’re nearing the end of a PhD, there’ll be something of interest in these ten tips. They include…
- 14 essential PhD questions answered
- Choosing a PhD subject
- The PhD experience: this far, and no further
- 10 steps to PhD failure
- How not to write a PhD thesis
- Realistic expectations keep you on the path to a PhD
- 10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you
- Me and my PhD supervisor: tales of love and loathing
- How to get students through their PhD thesis
- How to get ahead with a PhD
Have your say on reference management
Do you use RefWorks? Mendeley? OneNote, Papers, CiteULike? Do they improve your life, or raise your blood pressure? Is there anything you wish they did, or didn’t do? Do you avoid them altogether?
All researchers and staff are invited to take part in our survey on the use of reference managers. This is part of a project within Library and Learning Services looking at support and provision for reference management and citation services.
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Dates changes to NECTAR deposits
We’ve made some changes to the way dates are recorded in NECTAR with a new plugin called Dates, Dates, Dates. This will enable us to capture multiple date types for research outputs, which will improve the data we record, and enable us to capture required information to support HEFCE, RCUK and other funder policies.
This post explains the changes and tells you what you need to know to use the new Dates field.
Report: Taylor & Francis – Insights into publishing
Last week I attended an interesting event put on by Taylor and Francis (T&F) and, knowing that quite a few Northampton researchers publish with T&F, I thought I’d share some of the things I learned.
There were several talks during the day, covering support for early career researchers; peer review and journal development; the role of the editorial team; journal production; dissemination; and open access. The full slide presentation is available here but for me a number of points stood out.
Volunteers wanted to test new University website
Calling research students and research active staff:
The University’s new public facing website is nearly upon us and the Digital Services Team are looking for volunteers to check that everything is working as expected before it goes live. It would be good if we had some representatives of the research community to take a look at the research related pages.
Testing will be done between 4th and 12th February and a workshop for testers is to be held before then.
If you are would like to get involved then please contact Mary Joseph, Senior Project Manager, IT and Portfolio Services.
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