Category: Research support

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

We met Dr Adelina Gschwandtner (School of Economics) at the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) launch event in September, and since then Adelina has worked … Read more

Those of you who also follow my twitter account, may have noticed I’ve not been at my desk as often over the last couple of … Read more

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

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