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Academic Ranking of World Universities: the Shanghai Jiao Tong table
Where in the world? Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) has just published its latest annual Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). This is one of the most widely used global league tables for...
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OAwe and wonder: a long year of open access
Friday, 12 September marked the end of the first extended year of RCUK’s Open Access (OA) policy. There were some tense moments in the Research Services office as we put the finishing touches to our...
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Research feasibility
In undertaking research on any topic it is always a good idea to ask the question: is this research feasible? Often a student has decided on a particular area of research, for laudable reasons, such as...
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Memorising your presentation
Introduction To stand up and deliver a presentation can be a daunting prospect, whether for a new librarian or researcher. Fortunately, we all have access to the most advanced storage and processing...
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Seven tips for promoting ORCIDs to busy academics
Administrators of research are sold on the potential benefits of ORCIDs – but the ultimate success of the identifier relies on buy-in from academics too. Global ORCID take up is rising but hasn’t yet...
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The Battle for Open
The University of Manchester launched a postgraduate certificate in Higher Education in 2014, aimed at its academic and professional staff. This qualification seeks to encourage staff to think more...
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Open Access and Academic Journal Markets: a Manchester View
In February, a thought piece was issued jointly by Jisc, RLUK, SCONUL and ARMA which aimed to start a conversation about academic journal markets and progress in the UK towards Open Access. This...
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Supporting student publishing: perspectives from the University of Manchester...
The Manchester perspective, Part 1 For the past couple of years we’ve been giving some thought to the role of university libraries in publishing, in common with other libraries. However, the...
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Discussing digital scholarship at the second Digital Humanities Library Lab
This month I delivered Digital Humanities Second Library Lab, a hands-on showcase of digital library collections and tools created for the purpose of innovative research using computational methods....
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We are involved in an international collaborative project to assess the quality of the Research Data Management training across institutions. This post reports on progress of the project so far, it...
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Connecting the dots: Creating a joined up approach to Data Management Plans
Eight months on from a major revision of data management planning processes at the University of Manchester, we’re often asked about how we work and so we thought it might be useful to share how we...
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Supporting Open Access for books: lessons learned
Open Access (OA) books have been a fairly hot topic over recent months. My colleagues and I have responded to various surveys and contributed to UKRI’s review workshop and thought that sharing our...
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