Thursday 30 July 2015

Upcoming research support session: Capturing audio and video for research

The next research support session will be run by Ian from our Digital Training Team and will focus on some options available to you in capturing audio and video when collecting data for your research. ILS has a bank of 50 iPad Minis, which are available to borrow, and he will use these to introduce some of the features that could be useful to you.

It will take place on Wednesday 5th August, 2pm, FT114.

For more information about the Digital Training Team and the work they do, check out their blog.


Lego Photographer
Lego Photographer by Nathan Rupert. Used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Available from https://flic.kr/p/f6oFCx

Tuesday 21 July 2015

Upcoming research support session: Keeping Track of Your Reading

This week, Clare will be running a session on keeping track of your reading for researchers.  Would you like to know more about the tools that different search services offer to make it easier to be alerted when research articles are published in specific journal titles?  Or to receive an email when a key author has written another piece of work?  Or are you struggling to keep effective records of what you have read or found? These issues and more will be covered.  Pop along to DG102 at 11am on Friday 24th July.



Thursday 16 July 2015

Creating a researcher profile on RaY

Not only is it possible to track downloads and 'top authors' using RaY's statistics page, as we wrote about last week, it's also possible to create an author profile page on RaY, which allows a YSJ author to display all their research outputs in one place, alongside an author photo. It looks pretty nice, doesn't it?
An author's view of her MePrints page on RaY
To create a profile page, first log in to your RaY account (your normal YSJ login will work). Your MePrints page has automatically become your RaY homepage. Click the 'Edit Profile' button to add any professional biographical information that you'd like along with a photo. Not only will you be able to upload your work easily from this page, you can track which of your outputs is most viewed and see your latest additions.

This page is an automatically updated public research showcase, and it will eliminate the need to manage and add to other publication lists you might maintain on other websites.

What a MePrints page looks like to the public on RaY
ILS will be offering further drop in workshops on RaY in the Autumn (schedule coming shortly!) but we're also available to do bespoke training at the departmental, program or individual level. Please be in touch if this might be useful to you. If you would prefer to get started on your own, we've created a few 60 second video tutorials and a handbook.

Monday 13 July 2015

Altmetrics session cancelled

Sorry to say that, due to staff illness, the session on Altmetrics due to be run at 11am on Tuesday 14th July has had to be cancelled.  It will run again later in the year.  If you were planning to attend and would like an update in the meantime, please contact your Academic Liaison Librarian. Clare and Leah can offer 1-1 appointments to go through this.

Monday 6 July 2015

RaY - a place to show off your research

You can find out more about RaY, which is the York St John research repository, on the ILS website. It is the place where PhD theses from here will be stored and made available, now we have research degree awarding powers. Furthermore, it is where nearly all research outputs (journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and lots more) for any academic at the University will need to be stored from 2016 onwards, if they want it to be eligible for the next REF.

Just last week, we enabled a new feature on RaY. This allows you to interrogate the statistics linked to the research in RaY. So, you could look up the number of hits that a particular piece of research has received, and when those hits occurred.

If you are interested in finding out more about how RaY works, or the open access policies which underlie the introduction of institutional repositories, please ask us! Your Academic Liaison Librarian will be happy to talk it through with you.  Also, there is a general introduction to Open Access run by Clare McCluskey Dean (one of the ALLs) in DG120 on Thursday 9 July, 3.00-3.30pm.