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.
Open Access Week October 22-28, 2012 Everywhere
Promoting free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of scholarly and research outputs, this week marks the 6th annual international Open Access Week.
Here at The University of Northampton there are plenty of opportunities for researchers to make their work available in an open access format…
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
Library researcher help desk
The library research support team run a weekly researcher help desk. Dates and times for 2012 have just been updated, so if you have any library queries please drop in to see us at Park or Avenue campus. If you can’t make any of the times listed, contact the team and we’ll arrange an appointment.
Thumbnail image by Dennis Smith via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons)
RCUK launches research career case studies to inspire young people
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has today (8 October 2012) published an online suite of case studies designed to inspire the next generation to think about pursuing a career in research.
Find out more at: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2012news/Pages/121008.aspx
Finding usable images with Wikimedia Commons
Creative Commons (CC) licences allow images (and other content) to be used without the traditional ordeal of obtaining copyright permission from the creator (or the greater ordeal of being sued for infringement). They are a valuable tool for anyone creating digital content (such as presentations), particularly if the content is to be hosted online. This post explains how to find and use CC images using Wikimedia Commons.
Citation analysis tool – Publish or Perish
This is one of a series of posts describing tools that are available for citation analysis. For other tools see here.
Harzing’s Publish or Perish (PoP) “is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and calculates a series of citation metrics.” (Publish or Perish User’s Manual, 2012)
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