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University Research Repository Reaches Milestone!

This was just blogged by Paul Stainthorp over on The Winch. It’s encouraging to hear that the repository is growing: the more high quality content is deposited, the higher the profile of the repository as a whole.

A milestone in the growth of the University of Lincoln Repository: today saw the deposit of the 1,000th item…

Massey, [...]

New Repository Icon on the Desktop

The Library staff blogged about this recently on their Research Support blog, the Winch, and I’m shamelessly reposting that here:

University staff will now see a convenient new “Repository” short cut icon on their desktop.
The University of Lincoln Repository is for the permanent deposit of research and conference papers, e-theses, outstanding student projects and teaching [...]

Repository Advocacy and Training in the Library

This morning I delivered a short presentation to about 15 HLSS staff on the benefits of using an institutional repository. You can see the slides here (thanks to Joss Winn whose slides on Open Access formed the basis of this presentation).

Bev Jones and Jill Partridge, the library cataloguers, then took on the far more difficult task of [...]

E-journals Revolution: how the use of scholarly journals is shaping research

Title: The e-journals revolution: how the use of scholarly journals is shaping research
Date: 1st July 2009, 9.30am – 3.30pm
Location: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
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This free RIN event will look at the findings of the ‘E-journals: their use, value and impact’ report, which takes an in-depth look at how [...]

Library Support to Increase Visibility of Your Research

Paul Stainthorp just blogged this on The Winch. The Repository is an important way you can make your research more “visible” to the wider academic community, and the support provided by the Library will be invaluable in facilitating this:
We want to make your research easier to find, so the Library’s team of two professional cataloguers have now [...]

Library Launches Research Support Questionnaire 2009

Over on the Library and Learning Resources blog, The Winch, you can read about this year’s Research Support Survey:
LLR Launches Research Support Questionnaire 2009
This is aimed at all researchers and asks a series of questions about how you use LLR services. It also asks for suggestions on how you think services can be improved. If [...]

University Library Supports Researchers

The University Library launched a new blog to support researchers on 6th August:
Library Research Support @ Lincoln
It’s worth taking a few minutes to browse through the posts on RefWorks, the 2007-08 research support survey and read news on their latest training workshops.
The Library also has a helpful section on the Portal for researchers which includes [...]