Category: Support
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Just in time to say Happy New Year ! We’re back & ordering has restarted. We order as much material as possible as ebooks, but some subject areas may still have more print than online material. …
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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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Here’s what you need to know about licence options and submitting your final thesis to the Discovery Research Portal. At the conclusion of your post-graduate research degree, you’ll be required to upload a copy of your…
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On 6th August UKRI released its much-anticipated Open Access Policy. Applicable to research publications that acknowledge funding from any of the UKRI councils, the policy aims to ensure that publicly funded research is freely accessible and licensed in such 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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The Project With the Researchfish submission period approaching, we embarked on a new project in Research Services, to help ease the administrative element of the Researchfish submission for our researchers. We heard of a new feature…
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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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On 1 January 2021, Wellcome Trust will require that all funded authors retain the necessary intellectual property rights to comply with their new Open Access Policy. This can be accomplished through one of the following three…
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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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Wellcome Trust will implement a new Open Access policy on 1 January 2021. The policy will apply to all original, peer reviewed research articles that acknowledge Wellcome Trust funding and are submitted for publication from 1…
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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…