It is hard to believe it is already one year since the University of Dundee SafePod opened for use. Located on the top floor of the Main Library, the SafePod is a small standardised safe setting that provides the physical security and controls for a researcher to access sensitive datasets. Approved researchers with a project…Continue Reading 💖 We love data – Happy Anniversary Safepod 💖 #LoveDataWeek 💖
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from everyone in LLC Research Services! As we start the New Year our team have been recalling how busy 2022 was, with the services we provide supporting open research practices and research dissemination at the heart of everything we’ve done, and will continue to do in 2023. We know, for example, that…Continue Reading Happy New Year!
An International Open Access Week update on the Scottish Universities Press
About the author: Dominique Walker is the Publishing Officer for the Scottish Universities Press (SUP). Her role is hosted by the Library and Learning Centre LLC at the University of Dundee. International Open Access Week seems the perfect time to provide an update on the progress of Scottish Universities Press (SUP) – a fully open access…Continue Reading An International Open Access Week update on the Scottish Universities Press
DORA: The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and the Responsible Use of Metrics
The University of Dundee has signed and expressed its commitment to DORA, a set of principles designed to ensure that research assessment is undertaken in a responsible, fair and transparent manner. Read the University of Dundee statement here. What do you need to know about DORA? The vision of DORA is to “advance practical and…Continue Reading DORA: The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and the Responsible Use of Metrics
The new UKRI Open Access Policy and more: guidance and scenarios on publishing your research as Open Access
The new UKRI policy on Open Access comes into effect on 1st April 2022. Detailed information is available on our UKRI Open Access Policy webpage, but the following scenarios maybe of help in highlighting some practical effects of the policy, and on publishing Open Access in general. The key changes contained in the new policy…Continue Reading The new UKRI Open Access Policy and more: guidance and scenarios on publishing your research as Open Access
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
Happy Christmas & see you in the New Year
 Here are some titles we ordered earlier (selected by my colleague Yvonne)… have a look at some light hearted Christmas themed material available from the Library & Learning Centre –…Continue Reading Happy Christmas & see you in the New Year
Remembrance Day book display, Main Library
The Main Library book display updated for Remembrance Day, 2021. You can see the titles in this carousel –Â Book display Main Library – Recommend a Resource – LibGuides at University of Dundee…Continue Reading Remembrance Day book display, Main Library
Re-animating a Pictish Fort – DJCAD collaboration with University of Aberdeen
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 Baxter, (from Communication Design at DJCAD) created the 3D animation of how the fort might have looked using data…Continue Reading Re-animating a Pictish Fort – DJCAD collaboration with University of Aberdeen
Black History Month
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 look at this clip on ‘The Social ‘ from BBC Scotland, introducing ‘Black History month’. Online University of Dundee…Continue Reading Black History Month