Category: Research Post-Graduate
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💖 We love data – Happy Anniversary Safepod 💖 #LoveDataWeek 💖
It is hard to believe it is already one year since the University of Dundee SafePod opened for use. Located on the top floor of the Main Library, the SafePod is a small standardised safe setting that provides the physical security and controls for a researcher to access sensitive datasets. Approved researchers with a project…
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Activities: There’s so much that you can record in Discovery and more than one way to do it!
Over the past few years our team has noticed additional focus and attention on the need to record research-related activities and have responded by adapting and improving our services to accommodate the changing needs of our academic community. The driving forces behind these changes are threefold; Responsible Research Assessment As a signatory of DORA, and…
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It’s International Open Access Week – find out about the new University of Dundee, Open Access, student journal in this guest blog from Dr Anna Robb and Dr Richard Holme
In early 2020, on the eve of the global pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, two colleagues (Dr. Anna Robb and Dr. Richard Holme, Division of Education and Society) – who lead the highly successful Master of Education (MEd) programme – discussed the prospect of establishing a new open-access journal that would publish and share the best…
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It’s International Open Access Week – find out about the new UoD Open Access journal in this guest blog from Professor Divya Jindal-Snape
Launch of the open access International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions (IJELT) Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) research centre is an international, interdisciplinary centre. TCELT’s vision is to have an impact on international research, policy and practice in the context of educational and life transitions, and their implications for well-being through an…
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It’s Open Access Week – find out about a new UoD Open initiative in this guest blog from Dr Mei Lan Fang
Introducing the Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Toolkit International Open Access Week (October 25-31, 2021) is here, providing a great opportunity to highlight our Open Access initiatives at the University of Dundee. Globally, in the last 20 years, great efforts have been made to ensure that people who can benefit from new knowledge (e.g.,…
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How far did they travel? Post-graduate research theses, 2020.
Happy New Year from LLC Research Services! Those of you with an eye on Twitter will have noticed that at the end of 2020 @UoDOpenResearch put out a series of tweets highlighting our most downloaded theses. The information was taken from IRUS, a service which allows us to track downloads from the Discovery Research Portal…