University of Lincoln – the Winch!

You may be interested in the following event:

Beyond Blackboard: The Virtual Research Environment (VRE), Wednesday 17 March, MB1010, 12-1pm

This session will discuss the concept of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) and the work that has started at Lincoln to develop our VRE.

VREs are evolving to manage the increasingly complex range of tasks involved in carrying out research. In this session, we’ll look at several examples of VREs, discuss the work being undertaken in the sector to develop the concept of the VRE and seek to better understand the range of needs of researchers at the University of Lincoln.

Outside of this seminar, there is a University of Lincoln “VRE working group” (members from the Library, University Research Office, CERD and ICT services) which is looking at establishing a pilot/prototype Virtual Research Environment within one faculty in the near future. Watch this blog for more details!

You can now use Copac (the free, online “union” catalogue) to search for items held in the library of the Royal College of Music, and also the 140+ library collections owned by the National Trust. These new libraries are the latest additions to Copac, and join a list which includes many of the major university/research libraries in the UK and Ireland.

Log in to Copac via the University Portal. Here’s a help guide.

A message from University of Lincoln ICT services:

PAST Statistics

PAST is an easy-to-use data analysis package originally aimed at paleontology but now also popular in ecology and other fields. It includes common statistical, plotting and modelling functions.

http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/intro.html

This software will automatically appear on the Start Menu under Research Software and does not require user installation.

The University Repository will be under maintenance this afternoon, Monday 22 February 2010, between 3:00pm and 4:00pm GMT. We will be adding a range of new features and logging in will be disabled during the whole period.

Our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Thank you to Paul Stewart from the Lincoln School of Engineering for depositing the new School’s first journal article in the Lincoln Repository:

Gladwin, Dan and Stewart, Paul and Stewart, Jill and Chen, Rui and Winward, E. (2009) Improved decision support for engine-in-the-loop experimental design optimization. Proceedings of the IMechE, Part D: Automobile Engineering, 224 (2). pp. 201-218. ISSN 954-4070

The University of Lincoln Repository is for the permanent deposit of research and conference papers, e-theses, outstanding student projects and teaching and learning materials produced by our community of staff and students.

Click here for more information and here to download a PDF help sheet.

Here’s a list of e-journals that received the most attention last year within the University of Lincoln.

In true TOTP style, chart positions are followed by last year’s showing for that title. There’s been a bit of movement in the lower reaches of the ‘chart’ since last year – and keep an eye out for a couple of new entries.

We start this year with a tie for tenth place…

• =#10 (↓#7) Journal of Social Work (issn:1741-296X)
• =#10 (↓#8) International Journal of Tourism Research (issn:1522-1970)
• #9 (new entry!) Punishment & Society: the International Journal of Penology (issn:1462-4745)
• #8 (↑#10) Journal of Sustainable Tourism (issn:0966-9582)
• #7 (new entry!) Harvard Business Review (issn:0017-8012)
• #6 (↓#5) Child & Family Social Work (issn:1365-2206)
• #5 (↑#6) British Journal of Developmental Psychology (issn:0261-510X)
• #4 (=#4) Annals of Tourism Research (issn:0160-7383)
• #3 (=#3) British Journal of Psychology (issn:0007-1269)
• #2 (=#2) British Journal of Criminology (issn:1464-3529)
• #1 (=#1) British Journal of Social Work (issn:1468-263X)

So, for at least the third year running, the BJSW tops the chart: all by itself, it accounts for 4.8% of all e-journal downloads at Lincoln. The chart still seems to be dominated by the faculties of Health, Life & Social Sciences (7 titles) and Business & Law (4, including for the first time the Harvard Business Review).

These eleven titles are marked on the e-journals A-to-Z:

Joss Winn (C.E.R.D.) has posted to his blog a very thorough explanation of how to use the Lincoln Repository to ‘drive’ a dynamic, automatically-updated list of your publications on your web page.

• Read his step-by-step guide, here.

This is one of the best ways of maintaining a list of your publications in a web page. “The advantage of this is that every time you deposit something new in the repository, the list will automatically update on your chosen web page. You never need to edit your publications list again.”

There are still places remaining on the minibus trip to the British Library at Boston Spa, Wetherby, Yorkshire on Wednesday 17th February 2010.  

The British Library is one of the premier sources for information in the UK.  It has a collection of around seven million publications, which can be consulted in the Reading Room.  Resources include books, journals, abstracts and indexes etc.  

The coach will leave at 8.15am from outside the University Library (last time the trips went from the side road adjacent to the Engine Shed).  It will leave the British Library at 4.30pm arriving back to Lincoln at roughly 6pm.   Book at the library desk on the ground floor of the University Library. The cost of the trip is £5. It is open to all 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students, those studying on post-graduate awards and academic staff.   

Material can be ordered prior to the visit – up to 16 items in advance (the booking slips need to be returned to the University Library desk by 3.30pm on 8th February) but it is possible to access a further 8 items on the day.   For more information, please visit the Portal (https://portal.lincoln.ac.uk/C0/C9/BLTrips/default.aspx) and British Library website (http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/bspa/bostonspa.html).

The World’s Best Science And Medicine At Your Fingertips

The nature.com iPhone application allows you to access science news stories and the latest published research from Nature Publishing Group on your iPhone wherever you are. As new articles are published they’re pushed straight to your iPhone where you can read the full text immediately or just save them for later.

Tell the app which journals you’re interested in or set up saved searches, which will show you the titles and abstracts of new articles from any journals in PubMed that match your key words.

Keeping abreast of the latest research has never been easier!

Features

Great reading experience- the nature.com app has been designed to make reading scientific content on the iPhone a rewarding experience. A fast, attractive interface lets you get straight to the news and research you need and lets you read it comfortably and with minimum fuss.

Save for later- want to skim abstracts on the bus but read the full text back at your desk? Just use the application’s “save” button and a link and downloadable citation for that article will appear on this website.

Saved searches- set up saved searches on PubMed or nature.com so that you can be alerted to new, relevant research as soon as it gets published.

Zoom and pan figures- tap on a figure and it’ll open a new screen where you can pan and zoom in to see fine detail, making best use of the iPhone’s smaller screen.

Easy references- no need to jump to the end of the document and back to assess a reference, just tap it to get details.

Links To Source / App / Etc. Available At

[ http://tinyurl.com/y8vd94f ]

E-journals accessible through the IngentaConnect service have been updated on the A-to-Z.

The site now provides access to more than 480 titles, including those from the Brill Journals Archive:

“The Brill Journal Archive Online provides access to over 50,000 articles from more than 80 journals published by Brill before 2000.”

Full-text journal articles are available via the e-journals A-to-Z within the dates specified for each title.

New titles include:

• Journal of Medical Entomology (issn:0022-2585)
• The Design Journal (issn:1460-6925)
• Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry (issn:1756-9370)