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
Lab methods and protocols to embed in Moodle
JoVE is a producer and provider of science videos that increase the productivity and efficacy of STEM research and education. With a library of over … 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
Teams lobby: when and how to use it
When you set up a meeting you can use a lobby. This puts people in a waiting area. You then allow people to join the … Read more
Teams breakout rooms: new features
As a meeting organiser, you can use breakout rooms during meetings to add participants into working groups, and then bring them back together again. We’ve … Read more









