Category: Research support

We want to spread the word about some changes we’ve made to the Office for Scholarly Communication website. You can now easily find the services … Read more

Author accepted manuscript (AAM), proof, preprints, post prints – identifying the version of a publication can be difficult. This is often the case when the … Read more

  Open Access week is fast approaching and there is lots going on around the Templeman Library, from a free documentary screening to games, between … Read more

As an increasingly “open” research environment is emerging, a new language is forming around it. This emerging lexicon carries with it generations of evolution. How … Read more

A small(ish!) group of Research Managers, Administrators and other support may be blearily wandering around campus, or replying to emails a little more sluggishly than … Read more

It was a wintery day in late 2017, when into my inbox drops another email… so far, so uninspiring – this happens as a fairly(!) … Read more

Now. This would have been my shortest blog post ever, but for the general feeling that it is bad form to have a post with … Read more

Love them or loathe them, metrics are here… and like the fabled buses, come along in groups. Navigating the code language and acronym soup (JIF? … Read more

Predatory journals are a growing issue. By 2015 more than half a million papers had been published in journals known to be predatory, and Jeffrey Beall’s … Read more

Happy New Year to all of our readers. For 2018, we’d like to promote scholarly communications activities that will ensure that your research is open … Read more