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KAR and REF2021: what you need to know

By Angela Groth-Seary | 23 November 2017

The revised guidelines for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) were released on Tuesday (21st) – they can be read in full at http://www.ref.ac.uk/news/2017/decisionsonstaffandoutputs.html. This … Read more

Using Social Media: Top 10 tips for researchers

By Sarah Slowe | 14 November 2017

1) Pick your platform(s) – don’t do too much There are wealth of options… blogs, twitter, facebook, Instagram, researchgate, academia.edu, snapchat… the list goes on, … Read more

Using Social Media to promote your research: Reddit AMAs

By Angela Groth-Seary | 08 November 2017

Reddit is a social news website that has become a major driver of traffic to blog posts, videos, images and news articles. Reddit offers a significant platform for … Read more

Using Social Media: Recruiting Research Participants via Twitter

By Angela Groth-Seary | 03 November 2017

This post was written by Sarah Slowe, Head of the Office for Scholarly Communications. Sarah tweets as @HeadUniKentOSC.   This is the first post on … Read more

Open Access week – Introducing “The Publishing Trap”

By Angela Groth-Seary | 27 October 2017

As part of Open Access week here at Kent we were delighted to see the launch of an exciting new board game called The Publishing … Read more

Sources of Open Access Scholarly Works: Where to Start?

By Angela Groth-Seary | 26 October 2017

Post written by Helen Cooper, our Research Support Librarian. This blog was first published on the IT & Library news blog here. What do we … Read more

Supporting Open Access at Kent: REF Assisted Deposit Service

By Angela Groth-Seary | 25 October 2017

Written by Christine Buckley (Library Assistant, Scholarly Communications)   In support of Open Access week we are taking a look at some of the support … Read more

Kent Open Access week: Your Questions Answered

By Angela Groth-Seary | 24 October 2017

Following our Open Access week celebrations last week (a week ahead of the International #OAWeek, we’re keen!) we wanted to publish the questions (with answers, of course) … Read more

What has Open Access ever done for me? The benefits of Open Access

By Angela Groth-Seary | 23 October 2017

On the first day of International Open Access week (#OAWeek, for those of you on Twitter), we wanted to take the opportunity to acknowledge the … Read more

Using Social Media to promote your research: A blog on blogging (Kent blogs)

By Angela Groth-Seary | 19 October 2017

Blogs: An excellent way to open the discussion on a new publication, write up sessions or key points from a conference you’ve attended, or to … Read more

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