Students from the School of Computing and School of Sport and Exercise Sciences will all be based in Canterbury from September 2021. To support our … Read more
Category: Library news
New UKRI Open Access policy – what we are doing to help
UKRI has published a new Open Access (OA) policy. This post outlines the university’s response, and what we are doing to help our researchers meet … Read more
New UKRI Open Access policy – what researchers can do
UKRI has published a new Open Access policy. This post provides some very early advice about what you could start doing now as a researcher … Read more
Accessibility and inclusion news: Technical improvements to our institutional and data repositories
Both the Kent Academic Repository (KAR) and the Kent Data Repository (KDR) have been around for some time but needed work to improve accessibility. … Read more
What happens when you find your open access PhD thesis for sale on Amazon?
Last year a number of early career academics discovered that their PhD theses, which had been deposited in institutional open access repositories, were being sold … Read more
How to Archive your Website
If you are including a website as part of your research project to either disseminate, gather or process data, you need to consider how you … Read more
New ebook collections from ElgarOnline
The Library has expanded its collection of ElgarOnline ebooks and added the following collections: Social and Political Science 2017 Migration collection Human Geography collection Social … Read more
Why aren’t all books available as e-books?
Why can’t you get an e-book of the title I requested? One of the difficulties with studying online may be that the books that you … Read more
Finding Open Research Data
Data are information in a raw form. They are the basic unit of knowledge before analysis or interpretation takes place. Research data is the basis … Read more
You’ve got your APC funding – which licence should you choose?
You’ve opted for open access, you’ve got funding, but now your publisher offers you a choice of licence – which should you choose An APC … Read more