5 minutes with… Robert Pearce, Conservator for Manuscripts and Special Collections
August 3, 2016
Welcome to the latest in our series of Blog posts ‘5 minutes with …’, that introduce staff who work in LRLR at the University of Nottingham. We are a large department of around 250 staff based across all campuses and doing a wide variety of jobs relating to libraries, collections, teaching and learning, and research …
Copy? … Right?
May 10, 2016
Here are some common instances when you might want to copy or reuse someone else’s work: Photocopy from a book for your studies Upload course readings to Moodle Quote or include an extract in your dissertation or thesis Include material in a lecture presentation In all these cases you need to consider copyright. Many of …
Open access toolkit
April 26, 2016
From the 1st of April 2016 all journal articles and conference proceedings must be made open access (OA) in order to be eligible for submission to the next round of the Research Excellence Framework run by HEFCE. In making your publication OA you will need to consider compliance with HEFCE, your funders and your institutional …
University of Nottingham Library Research Week Symposium
April 11, 2016
Between 29 February and 4 March 2016, Libraries, Research and Learning Resources (LRLR) hosted Library Research Week. The highlight of the week was the first ever Library Research Week Symposium, held on Wednesday 2 March. The excellent line up of speakers included Professor Dame Jessica Corner DBE Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, and representatives …
Open Access – new mediated deposit service
February 9, 2016
Libraries, Research and Learning Resources have launched a new mediated deposit service, making it quicker and easier for researchers to store their publications in our ePrints repository. Following the implementation of HEFCE requirements on 1 April, researchers will need to have their articles available through Open Access within three months of acceptance to be eligible for the next …
Welcome to your libraries PGRs
November 25, 2015
A very warm welcome to all our PGRs from the University of Nottingham libraries. The library service is here to help you to do well in your research, this blog post will highlight some of the useful services and resources to support your research needs. The library website, Twitter and Blog the library’s website contains up-to-date …
