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. The information was taken from IRUS, a service which allows us to track downloads from the Discovery Research Portal…Continue Reading How far did they travel? Post-graduate research theses, 2020.
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 publication routes: Publish in a fully open access journal or platform under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence….Continue Reading Wellcome Trust 2021 OA Policy – Retention of IP Rights
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 January 2021. Publication Costs Wellcome Trust will continue to support article processing charges (APCs) for open access journals…Continue Reading Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy 2021
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 ORCID comes with an online profile that can be linked to systems like Discovery (the University of Dundee’s research…Continue Reading An ORCID sets you apart from the crowd
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 provides a personalised platform for staff and research students to build a profile to showcase their work. Who has…Continue Reading Increase your online visibility with a Discovery Profile
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 Division contributes by managing a complex array of licenses, software, services, physical and electronic resources. This work is reliant…Continue Reading Introduction to Research & Resources