Category: Researchers
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BoB playlists – using TV, Films & Radio for teaching & research
Box of broadcasts (BoB) allows you to set up playlists – which can be public or private. Public playlists can be found by searching BoB, there’s also a selection of playlists created by academics on various topics, accompanied by a description or short video overview of the content on the ‘BoB curated playlists‘ page on…
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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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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from everyone in LLC Research Services! As we start the New Year our team have been recalling how busy 2022 was, with the services we provide supporting open research practices and research dissemination at the heart of everything we’ve done, and will continue to do in 2023. We know, for example, that…
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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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An International Open Access Week update on the Scottish Universities Press
About the author: Dominique Walker is the Publishing Officer for the Scottish Universities Press (SUP). Her role is hosted by the Library and Learning Centre LLC at the University of Dundee. International Open Access Week seems the perfect time to provide an update on the progress of Scottish Universities Press (SUP) – a fully open access…
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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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Are you at Trustee for an organisation?
If you are a trustee, it’s now possible to accurately record this information in Discovery, using the Activities Membership options. Our team have been doing some housekeeping to tidy up Discovery data, largely with the purpose of supporting more accurate public engagement reporting. During this process we were asked how to record a trustee role…
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DORA: The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and the Responsible Use of Metrics
The University of Dundee has signed and expressed its commitment to DORA, a set of principles designed to ensure that research assessment is undertaken in a responsible, fair and transparent manner. Read the University of Dundee statement here. What do you need to know about DORA? The vision of DORA is to “advance practical and…
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Optimise your Researchfish submission
Make the most of the Researchfish submission with tips and advice provided to us by the team at Researchfish. Tips to optimise your Researchfish submission Consider the following when working on your Researchfish submission: Connect your Researchfish account to your ORCID account to enable data to be harvested from ORCID ready to attribute in Researchfish…