Discovery Research Portal – Research and Resources

PGR Wellbeing Matters: Insights from a Unique Comic Strip – a guest blog post from Dr Sandra Oza, Doctoral Academy Manager at UoD.

Author By Emma Colville
Publication date 3rd May 2023
Categories: Academic publishing, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Open access, Open research, Post-graduate research

Postgraduate research can be an incredibly rewarding experience, but it’s not without its challenges. From navigating the demands of academia to managing your personal life, the pressures can take a toll on your mental health and wellbeing. For this reason, the Doctoral Academy at the University of Dundee decided to create a comic strip about…Continue Reading PGR Wellbeing Matters: Insights from a Unique Comic Strip – a guest blog post from Dr Sandra Oza, Doctoral Academy Manager at UoD.

Activities: There’s so much that you can record in Discovery and more than one way to do it!

Author By Moya Fox
Publication date 29th November 2022
Categories: Public Engagement, Pure Support, Research, Research assessment, Research Post-Graduate

Over the past few years our team has noticed additional focus and attention on the need to record research-related activities and have responded by adapting and improving our services to accommodate the changing needs of our academic community. The driving forces behind these changes are threefold; Responsible Research Assessment As a signatory of DORA, and…Continue Reading Activities: There’s so much that you can record in Discovery and more than one way to do it!

Are you at Trustee for an organisation?

Author By Moya Fox
Publication date 18th May 2022
Categories: Public Engagement, Pure Support, Research impact

If you are a trustee, it’s now possible to accurately record this information in Discovery, using the Activities Membership options. Our team have been doing some housekeeping to tidy up Discovery data, largely with the purpose of supporting more accurate public engagement reporting. During this process we were asked how to record a trustee role…Continue Reading Are you at Trustee for an organisation?

It’s International Open Access Week – find out about the new UoD Open Access journal in this guest blog from Professor Divya Jindal-Snape

Author By Emma Colville
Publication date 29th October 2021
Categories: Academic publishing, Creative Commons, Digital resources, News, Online journal resources, Open access, Open research, Open science, Research, Research Post-Graduate, Resources, Scholarly communications

Launch of the open access International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions (IJELT) Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) research centre is an international, interdisciplinary centre. TCELT’s vision is to have an impact on international research, policy and practice in the context of educational and life transitions, and their implications for well-being through an…Continue Reading It’s International Open Access Week – find out about the new UoD Open Access journal in this guest blog from Professor Divya Jindal-Snape

It’s Open Access Week – find out about a new UoD Open initiative in this guest blog from Dr Mei Lan Fang

Author By Philippa Sterlini
Publication date 25th October 2021
Categories: Digital resources, Open access, Open data, Open research, Open science, Research impact, Research Post-Graduate, Resources, Scholarly communications

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 last 20 years, great efforts have been made to ensure that people who can benefit from new knowledge (e.g.,…Continue Reading It’s Open Access Week – find out about a new UoD Open initiative in this guest blog from Dr Mei Lan Fang

Making your Researchfish submission easier

Author By Linda Hazle
Publication date 27th January 2021
Categories: Project, Research

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 in Researchfish which allowed us to upload publication data linked to awards and started to explore the possibilities using…Continue Reading Making your Researchfish submission easier

Increase your online visibility with a Discovery Profile

Author By Moya Fox
Publication date 12th August 2020
Categories: Guide, Research impact, Resources, Scholarly communications, Training

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

Highlighting COVID-19 related research at the University of Dundee

Author By John McCaffery
Publication date 13th July 2020
Categories: News, Research, Research impact

A new feature has been implemented on the Discovery Research Portal, which highlights research related to the current COVID-19 pandemic. A clickable banner has been added, which provides access to COVID-19 related research and expertise from within the University, including profiles of researchers, details of research outputs, activities, and funded projects….Continue Reading Highlighting COVID-19 related research at the University of Dundee

Introduction to Research & Resources

Author By Hannah Whaley
Publication date 3rd July 2020
Categories: Academic publishing, Databases, Digital resources, Digitisation, Libraries, News, Online book resources, Online journal resources, Open access, Open data, Open research, Open science, Policy, Research, Resources, Scholarly communications

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