Year: 2022

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…Continue Reading Optimise your Researchfish submission

H-Index: what it is, and displaying it on your Discovery profile (or not)

The h-index is an author-level metric which is designed to measure both productivity and the citation impact of any publications produced. It is calculated by counting the number of publications produced, and the number of times those papers have been cited. For example, if an author has published 20 papers in total, and 10 of…Continue Reading H-Index: what it is, and displaying it on your Discovery profile (or not)

Levelling up access to data: University of Dundee one of first in Scotland to get a SafePod

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University of Dundee SafePod now open On Friday 25th February, the Dundee SafePod situated within the Main Library was opened by Professor John Rowan, Vice-Principal for Research, Knowledge Exchange & Wider Impact.  The event attendees included researchers, professional services supporting research and external partners including the Manager and the Director of the SafePod Network and…Continue Reading Levelling up access to data: University of Dundee one of first in Scotland to get a SafePod

Elsevier and the University of Dundee

The University of Dundee’s current subscription to Elsevier journals is our largest, both in terms of volume and cost. We currently subscribe to 1865 journals, representing almost 20% of our expenditure on scholarly materials. As well as being widely read, researchers at Dundee publish extensively in Elsevier journals. Our current subscription agreement with Elsevier officially…Continue Reading Elsevier and the University of Dundee

Title not in stock? Try MoreBooks@dundee.ac.uk

MoreBooks@dundee.ac.uk  is a service for students (undergraduate,  taught & research postgraduate)  that encourages you to ask us to purchase books relevant to your studies which aren’t in stock (as ebooks or print)  in the Library.  Email us from your @dundee.ac.uk email address,  with the full details of the tile required.  Titles will be bought as…Continue Reading Title not in stock? Try MoreBooks@dundee.ac.uk

 Getting Started Resources: Resources for new students (undergraduate or postgraduate)

A few resources to get you started…. 1. The Library homepage –  www.dundee.ac.uk/library 2. People 3. Guides 4. Library Search 5. The Library App 6. Your online reading/resource list (for taught modules) 7. Referencing 8. Linkedinlearning…Continue Reading  Getting Started Resources: Resources for new students (undergraduate or postgraduate)

Resource lists & ordering – we’re back

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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.  Resource lists in draft  are due to be published this week, before the start of Semester on the 17th…Continue Reading Resource lists & ordering – we’re back

Happy New Year from LLC Research Services!

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Happy New Year! LLC Research Services would like to wish all our colleagues at the University a very Happy New Year. We hope you enjoyed a restful, festive holiday and are now looking forward to the new year ahead. Last year presented challenges to everyone but our team was determined to improve our existing services…Continue Reading Happy New Year from LLC Research Services!