“JORUM is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials, created by the community for the community.” – JORUM Team.

The January edition of the Jorum Update newsletter is now available at the JORUM website.

The first edition of 2010 focuses on the release of JorumOpen, which is now available for search and deposit.  This growing collection has received some very positive feedback, and we are encouraging further deposit by utilising the new JORUM deposit chooser.

Read more at:

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/news/newsletter.html

Don’t forget you can also keep up to date with the JORUM team through Twitter, and the JORUM Community Bay

Twitter:  http://twitter.com/JorumTeam.

Web: http://www.jorum.ac.uk

JORUM Community Bay: http://community.jorum.ac.uk

NEW CONTENT – Just before Christmas the repository team completed the task of adding the 2008 RAE data to Bradford Scholars. The University’s research repository now hosts nearly 1,800 entries with associated digital objects ranging from journal articles and book chapters to conference and working papers. The bibliographic records from the 2008 RAE return add another 1,300 fully searchable entries to our growing repository.

OPEN ACCESS TO BRADFORD RESEARCH – All content in Bradford Scholars is openly accessible to web users via any search engine or directly on the repository site. Staff wishing to view their own entries may do so without registering as contributors. However, we welcome all staff to register in order to add their papers to the online repository. Registration is quick and simple via the repository homepage (http://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/) and the depositing process only takes a few minutes.

GET REGISTERED AND INCREASE YOUR RESEARCH IMPACT – Many of the 2008 RAE entries in Bradford Scholars do not yet include the full text articles or book chapters etc. Although each repository entry carries a link to the original published versions where available we invite researchers to send us these papers to lib-webadmin@bradford.ac.uk for inclusion in the repository. An openly accessibly research paper in Bradford Scholars enhances access to and removes barriers from research by providing toll-free routes to peer-reviewed scholarship.

NB! – Although many publishers permit the use of full text articles and other published research in open access repositories, we may still only be able to use your final author drafts and NOT  the published PDFs. This is not a problem. The final author draft is the version that has been peer-reviewed, alterations made and accepted for publishing. The intellectual content is the same as in the final published PDF but the author version will not carry the formatting of the published PDF. These are the papers we would like authors to forward to the repository team. To view the copyright conditions of your publisher visit http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ or http://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/.

For more information on Bradford Scholars visit http://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/ or email the repository team at lib-webadmin@bradford.ac.uk.

The most downloaded three papers in Bradford Scholars at present:

1) Boot, J.C. “Design of cylindrical plastic pipe linings to resist buckling due to collapse pressures”

http://hdl.handle.net/10454/

2) Pinder, D. “Coin: the missing currency in peace support operations and beyond”

http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2320

3) Sheriff, R., Chan, P.M.L. et al. “Ubiquitous Internet in an integrated satellite-terrestrial environment: The SUITED solution”

http://hdl.handle.net/10454/463

Staff at JORUM have released their November newsletter.

The November edition of Jorum Update is now available at the Jorum website.

The last Jorum Update of 2009 brings together highlights of the past few months in relation to the release of JorumOpen, which includes future directions for the service. We take a sneak preview at plans for 2010, incorporating further enhancements to the service alongside JorumOpen and JorumUK. Other key topics include the new interactive map on the Jorum website, and the positive feedback received from the training events.

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/news/newsletter.html

Don’t forget you can also keep up to date with the Jorum team through Twitter:  http://twitter.com/JorumTeam.

Web: http://www.jorum.ac.uk
Jorum Community Bay: http://community.jorum.ac.uk

Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials, created by the community for the community.

You can also have your say and find out more about all aspects of sharing at the Jorum Community Bay: http://community.jorum.ac.uk

Latests news release from the Royal Society:

As the world’s oldest science academy, we are looking forward to celebrating our 350th anniversary and to mark this special occasion we are making our digital archive containing more than 65,000 articles free  to access from 23 Nov 2009 to 28 Feb 2010.

The development of the digital archive means that the Society’s online collection now contains
every paper ever published in the Royal Society’s journals – from the very first peer-reviewed
paper in Philosophical Transactions – to the most recent interdisciplinary article in Interface.

2010 Celeberating 350 years of Science

Royal Society are undertaking such a broad and exciting programme of activities – exhibitions,
lecture, conferences, a new book, a vast science festival on the South Bank in London,
television and radio broadcasting and much more.

 

Contact the Royal Society:

Publishing
The Royal Society
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AG

t: +44 (0)20 7451 2500
e: publishing@royalsociety.org
w: royalsocietypublishing.org

Q3 upgrades Saturday 21 November and the * ‘New’ ISI Web of Knowledge Version 5* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Mimas are pleased to advise of the latest Q3 upgrade to ISI Web of Knowledge, version 4.7 which has been scheduled for Sunday, November 22, beginning at 14:00 GMT (9:00 EST).

 

In addition to this release, Endnote Web and ResearcherID will receive their Q3 upgrades. Please note, A more substantial downtime is required for EndNote Web starting on Saturday November 21, 2009 at 02:00 GMT (Friday, November 20, 2009 at 21:00 EST) ending by Sunday, Nov. 22, 15:00 GMT. (10:00 EST)

 

 

* ‘New’ ISI Web of Knowledge Version 5*

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A production release of ‘ISI Web of Knowledge Version 5′ will also be made available at this time, although not a full release it will allow a preview of the new version with many exciting enhancements, and more to follow in 2010.

 

Users will have parallel access to the ISI Web of Knowledge version 4.7 and the production release of the ‘NEW’ Version 5.

 

Following the Web of Science Enhancement Committee – Thomson Reuters have released a PowerPoint presentation of all the Q3 enhancements, future enhancements and full details of WoK version 5 planned for 2009 – 2010 at:

http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/support/documentation/presentations/wosec271009.ppt

 

WoK Version 4.7

 

* Upgraded Operating System and Browser support.

* Refine / Analyse Funding Agencies.

* Analyse by Grant Numbers.

* Access to the new WoK Environment.

 

‘New’ WoK Version 5. Updates and Plans 2009 – 2010.

 

Briefly benefits include Enhancements for:

* Searching.

* Display.

* Analyse.

* Citation.

* Record Management.

 

To mention a few,

* All database search results can be refined by product.

* Elimination of “Stop Words”.

* Lemmatisation, e.g. tooth will also find results for teeth.

* Full hit counts.

* Left hand truncation – no need to precede the wildcard with 3 characters

* Full author name searching

 

Releases through 2010 will add:

* Remaining Web of Knowledge Content, (access – may depend on subscription).

- Medline, Inspec, CAB Abstracts, …

* Remaining WoK 4 “Parity” Functionality.

- Alerts, Search Aids, Search Highlighting, …

* New Unique Functionality

- Search and Display ResearcherID numbers, Spell Checking, RefWorks Export, …

 

If you have any questions or simply wish to give us your feedback on the enhancements, please contact the helpdesk at: wok@mimas.ac.uk

 

MIMAS tells us that “records from the University of Bradford’s Special Collections have now been added to Copac. This is in addition to the records already on Copac for Bradford’s Russian and Eastern European Studies (REES) holdings.

Special Collections at the University of Bradford holds over 100 collections of archives and rare books, reflecting the University’s strengths in social sciences and applied sciences and the history and culture of Bradford and its Yorkshire environment. Rich in rare modern volumes, the book collections cover archaeology, religion, literature, politics, industrial history and, above all, peace studies, one of the University’s best known departments.

There are several Special Collections relating to Balkans and former Yugoslavia, which complement the important holdings in the main library concerning East Europe. Named collections include the Mitrinović Library, the J B Priestley and Jaquetta Hawkins Collections, and the Commonweal Collection. These collections have been added as part of the Copac Challenge Fund, an initiative jointly funded by RLUK, the RIN, and the British Library.

Further information can be found on the RLUK website (http://www.rluk.ac.uk/node/59) Details of other libraries to be added as part of the initiative are available from the Forthcoming Libraries pages on the Copac website (http://copac.ac.uk/libraries/forthcoming/). Copac itself is a free service accessible at: http://copac.ac.uk

Keep up to date with developments at Copac by subscribing to the Copac Blogs: http://copac.ac.uk/blog/ http://copac.ac.uk/development-blog/ or follow Copac on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Copac “

EThOS is the British Library’s thesis digitisation service which launched in January 2009 and has so far made over 24,000 theses available for immediate download. Some of the theses from the University of Bradford are also included and more get added gradually.

As the British Library say “the service allows researchers to access theses online, most for the first time, and showcases the quality of UK postgraduate research on a global scale”. The service has been very popular with researchers and the BL have announced that the digitisation times for theses not already available electronically have been reduced. It is also worth noting that the ETHoS service is able to harvest thesis entries from the University of Bradford research archive – Bradford Scholars.

Start searching EThOS

In keeping with their role as the UK’s national academy of science, The Royal Society has committed to the widest possible dissemination of research outputs. The Royal Society offer the following types of open access to their journal articles: delayed, “Green” and “Gold” open access, and free access for the world’s poorest nations. The Royal Society regularly open their digital journal archive of some 70,000 articles dating from 1665 to non-subscribers. The next open access period commences in November 2009 and closes in February 2010.

To learn more about Open Access to the Royal Society archives visit

http://royalsocietypublishing.org/site/authors/OpenAccessWeek.xhtml

Metalib

Join us at lunchtime for one of the Metalib or EndNote Web training sessions to be held during October and November.

Metalib is the place to visit when you need to know what online resources (eBook packages, eJournals, databases, websites etc) are available to you as a member of the University. It is a good starting point for new students and staff in finding quality resources organised under subject areas. Metalib also permits you to customise your own MyMetalib area, create lists of your favourite online resources and even run searches across more than one database or eJournal site in one go.

At the end of the 1h training session you will be able to

• Navigate around the Metalib site
• Locate resources by type, or title and subject area
• Search the content in multiple databases
• View results and read full text journal articles on your desktop
• Create your own favourite database and journal lists
• Create automated searches and set up alerts to arrive in your email box
• Save search results to e.g. EndNote

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Date	Venue	Time
Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21st of October	JB Priestley Building, Room 2.7b	12:00-13:00
Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th November

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EndNote Web

Learn how to reference using EndNote® Web and Microsoft Word®. Tips will be given for effective referencing using the Harvard system but other types of referencing will be mentioned.

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Date	Venue	Time
Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th of October	JB Priestley Building, Room 1.7	12:00-13:00
Monday 2nd and Thursday 5th November

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If you have any questions about these training sessions, please get in touch with the Systems and eResources Team via email

A range of Open Access journals are now available in most subject areas. These titles number in their thousands and are usually peer-reviewed. Some of the more well-known titles include those of BioMed Central (199 peer-reviewed titles) and the Public Library of Science (seven peer-reviewed science and medicine titles). A number of directories exist to list Open Access journals. One of more extensive lists is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) which also facilitates searches across the journals. The multi-disciplinary and multi-lingual DOAJ covers over 4250 free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

In addition to Open Access journals the commercial publishers may offer paid open access options. this would allow authors to deposit their articles immediately in their institutional open access repositories upon payment of a fee. The same publishers may also permit authors to deposit after an embargo period without the payment of a fee. Where a publisher’s standard policy does not allow an author to comply with their funding agency’s open access mandate, paid open access options may enable an author to comply. Information about publishers’ paid options for open access are available at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PaidOA.html. Guidance is also available from the Research Information Network (RIN) who have produced a briefing document called “Paying for open access publication charges”. This PDF is available from RIN web pages.

Authors are urged to consider the requirements set by their funding bodies (information about funder mandates are available directly from the funding organisation or e.g.  the JULIET database)  regarding open access to reseach outputs. In many cases researchers are expected to make research results available open on the web. This could be an Open Access journal or paid open access article in a commercial journal. Institutional repositories are a third option for releasing research materials to the free web.

Authors concerned about their rights to publish in traditional commercial journals need not worry. Making research available openly on the World Wide Web does not exclude the publication of articles in the author’s choice of journal. However, it worth noting that on occasion the publisher’s policy on self-archiving and placing published articles on the free web may clash with the funder’s mandate on open access. Bearing this in mind it is worth checking the prospective publisher’s copyright policy and the funder mandate prior to getting published.

More information on publisher policies are available via the RoMEO database or the Bradford Scholars web page at the University of Bradford. Alternatively,  you may choose to contact the repository team at Bradford for advise and assistance. Contact details are available at the Bradford Scholars homepage.