On trial: additional JoVE video content
November 20, 2020
We are pleased to bring you trial access to JoVE Research and Education Video collections. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) is the leading producer of science videos for research, teaching and learning, bringing to life detailed examination of cutting-edge experiments. The videos give an in depth understanding to STEM subjects, increasing student engagement and learning …
On trial: Newspaper resources
November 9, 2020
We are pleased to bring you trial access to two current newspaper resources. PressReader offers digital access to over 7,000 newspapers in more than 60 languages. Gale OneFile: News offers full-text access to more than 2,300 major newspapers around the world. Both trials will run from 1st November for one month. Please send your feedback to the Libraries Collections team: collections@nottingham.ac.uk
On trial: Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online
November 5, 2020
Currently available on trial is Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) from TannerRitchie Publishing. MEMSO covers Britain and its place in the world during the medieval and early modern period (c. 1100-1800). It combines key printed sources for English, Irish, Scottish and Colonial history with original manuscripts. Whether your specialism is political, ecclesiastical, social, …
On trial: Liverpool Shipping Records
October 26, 2020
We’re pleased to announce a trial for the Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 – Parts 1-4 from the British Online Archives. This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1891 and 1900, which are divided into …
Open Access Week: Full open access – a change of scenery
October 22, 2020
In our fifth and final blog for Open Access Week, Natalia Tsiva, Research Library Advisor, provides an overview of full open access publishing, outlines what fully open access journals and platforms are, what are their advantages for authors and the public and how Plan S is going to change this publishing model from 1 January 2021. On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisations, with …
Open Access Week: Journal publishing: transformed by agreement
In the fourth of our daily blogs for Open Access Week, Senior Research Librarian Tony Simmonds explores new models to enable publishing in journals. Pay to read or pay to publish? That is the question that’s ruffling the normally composed arena of scholarly communications. Slowly, publisher by publisher, new articles by Nottingham authors are appearing by virtue of a novel business model. Steered by the determination …
Open Access Week: Open Access Book Publishing
October 21, 2020
In our third post for Open Access Week, the University of Nottingham Libraries Research Support team guide you through the knowns and unknowns of Open Access (OA) book publishing. After years of major changes to the scholarly publishing landscape where the availability of free-to-read research articles and journals has increased dramatically, it may appear that academic books have been an afterthought. When we consider books and long-form publication more broadly, we include monographs, …
Open Access Week: Retain copyright, free ideas!
October 20, 2020
In the second of our daily blogs for Open Access Week, Senior Research Librarian Tony Simmonds describes how copyright is moving centre stage for researchers. Do your eyes glaze over when confronted with the small print of another publishing contract? You’re not alone. Terms governing copyright especially are not for dwelling on … never mind the legalese, where do I sign?! Wellcome’s new approach Courtesy of …
Open Access Week: Wellcome Trust heralds open access policy shakeup
October 19, 2020
The first of our daily blogs for Open Access Week features the Wellcome Trust open access (OA) policy changes. Olivia Marsh, Research Librarian, provides an overview of forthcoming Wellcome Trust policy changes, in the first of five posts exploring funder alignment with Plan S, the manifesto for accelerating the shift to open access. From the 1 January 2021, the Wellcome Trust OA policy will look very different and this post explains some of the key changes. The overarching aim of the new OA policy is to …
On trial: News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive
October 16, 2020
We are pleased to bring you trial access to News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive. This collection of digitized consumer magazines provides rare content dating back to 1918. Primary source material covers social and political topics with diverse political orientations and international perspectives. Research areas also include gender studies, ethnic studies and media history. Titles in …
