Category: Resources
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The BBC reported (1/11/21) on the excavation of a Pictish fort in the village of Burghead, Moray, on the North-east coast of Scotland, carried out by the University of Aberdeen. Alice Watterson, Kieran Duncan and Kieran…
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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…
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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…
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Diversity Initiative – Black History Month resource list Two student societies – The Diversity Initiative (TheDiversityInitiative@dundee.ac.uk) and Afromedics (AfroMedics@dundee.ac.uk) – have used our resource/reading list software (which powers module resource/reading lists) to compile an annotated reading…
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October is ‘Black History month’ allowing a focus on resources related to Black History – see the Black History Month Scotland site for information relating to Scotland, the UK Black History Month website and have a…
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Accessing secure research data as an accredited researcher – Assured Organisational Connectivity to the Secure Research Service The University of Dundee has recently secured Assured Organisational Connectivity (AOC) with the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Secure…
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What are they and what can you do to avoid getting caught? An unfortunate part of the publishing landscape is the rise of the predatory journal. Unscrupulous “publishers” offer what appears to be comparatively cheap routes…
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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.…
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What is Researchfish? Researchfish is an online facility used by research funders and research organisations, including UKRI and Wellcome Trust, to track the outcomes from their investments. PIs who have received funding are asked to log…
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Support for Resource Lists The LLC are keen to support everyone currently preparing, sharing, or linking Resource Lists for the coming academic year. This is intended to signpost the help available and provide information for common…
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An ORCID is a unique, digital identifier that connects you, your research, and your affiliations. Having one makes you easily identifiable as the author/creator of a research output, meaning you get the appropriate credit for it. Your…
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Pure and Discovery Pure is the software that underpins Discovery, the University’s public facing institutional repository, and the portal through which a global audience can view the results of the University’s activities and research. It also…
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Library search provides access to a vast range of online resources, and during the COVID-19 period, some of our publishers and online suppliers have provided additional content, to help students who are currently unable to…
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The Library & Learning Centre and Culture & Information directorate supports learning, teaching, and research activities across the University of Dundee’s ten Schools and all their diverse disciplines. Within our LLC&CI directorate, the Research and Resources…