World Newspaper Archive trial: August 2018

Posted on 1st August 2018 by Deborah Sherlock

World newspapers

As part of a wider review of historical newspaper archives available to Queen’s students and staff, the Library has arranged a trial of World Newspaper Archive . This collection features searchable digital replicas of historical newspapers published in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. It also includes 19th- and 20th-century newspapers published in English and a variety of other languages.

The trial will run during the month of August 2018. Please click on the links below for access:

WNA: African Newspapers 1800-1922 & WNA: African Newspapers, Series II: 1835-1925

WNA: Latin American Newspapers (Series I) & WNA: Latin American Newspapers (Series II)

WNA: South Asian Newspapers 1864-1922

To help us judge the quality of this resource please send feedback to: deborah.sherlock@qub.ac.uk

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SpringerProtocols.com Deactivated

Posted on 27th July 2018 by Geraldine O'Beirn

From the 25th July, the SpringerProtocols.com platform is no longer accessible.  You can, however, search for SpringerProtocols content via Springer Nature Experiments.

Springer Nature Experiments is an extensive online collection of molecular biology and biomedical protocols enabling researchers to recreate experiments in their laboratory. They provide predefined written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments including bias, safety, equipment, statistical methods and reporting. The Protocols are taken from established sources such as Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Biotechnology and Methods in Molecular Medicine.

You can access Springer Nature Experiments to search for Springer Protocols via the QUB Library at the following link https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Re1000385

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Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Deborah Sherlock

Approximately 8,000 pages from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Archive (held at the Vassar College Archive) have been digitized, including notes from various field expeditions to the American Southwest in the 1930s. The Ruth Benedict Papers are now freely available to the public.

You can find further information and a link to this collection in the new Open Access Resources section of the Anthropology LibGuide.

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict

 

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Customer Service Excellence Accreditation

Posted on 29th May 2018 by 3041187

Library Services have been undertaking the Customer Service Excellence accreditation since 2015, and we have been successful in achieving this standard every year since. This year has been no different, and after the assessor visit on 13th March, Library Services can announce another successful accreditation.

Customer Service Excellence is an independent accreditation of the quality and standard of our customer care, and covers all aspects of our engagement with our customers, from front-line and face-to-face support, to liaison and communication, and how we engage with customers in developing our services and strategy.

Library Services would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone involved in helping us achieve this standard, whether you are a customer, a partner in the service we provide or a member of library staff. When we have asked you to complete surveys or provide us with feedback, you have done this, and this has meant that we can use your feedback and comments as a driver for continuous improvement. Some of you may met the assessor when he visited the McClay Library on 13th March, and again we would like to thank you for taking the time to speak to him, highlighting what we do well, and what we don’t get right.

Moving on from this, Library Services are starting to look forward to next year’s assessment and striving to perform better, seek feedback from our customer base and enhance your experience of using the Library.

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Beck Online: German, wider European and International law in the QUB Library

Posted on 28th May 2018 by Isabel O'Kelly

The library holds a key resource for German, wider European and International law? Check out Beck Online on the library catalogue. Beck Online gives full text access to primary sources of German law with substantial additional commentary (in German). The following modules are included: Arbeitsrecht Premium; Europarecht Plus; Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz Plus; Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht Plus; Zivilrecht Plus.

English journals include the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law – EuCML, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law [IIC] and the International Insolvency Law Review [IILR] – 2010 – 2016.

Please contact the AHSS subject team for further details.
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Using a social networking site versus using an institutional repository

Posted on 21st May 2018 by wordpress

research portal blog

Many researchers share their work online through social networking sites such as Academia.edu or ResearchGate. These sites are extremely useful and allow researchers to create their own profiles, promote their work and connect with other researchers.

However, you may wish to consider depositing your work in an institutional repository instead of, or as well as, a social networking site and here are some reasons why:

  • If you add a research paper to the Queen’s Institutional Repository (Research Portal), the Open Access (OA) Team will verify the bibliographic details and add any necessary embargos or copyright information, legally required by the publisher, to your papers. If you add a paper to a social networking site you alone are responsible for investigating and adhering to the terms of your copyright transfer agreement. Publishers have, in the past, issued take down notices to users of social networking sites asking them to remove documents that infringed copyright. Notably, Elsevier took legal action against Academia.edu in 2013 and ResearchGate in 2017 over the issue of sharing full-text publications.
  • From 01 April 2018 if you want your article or published conference paper to be considered for REF2021, you need to ensure that an accepted manuscript is posted in a subject or institutional repository within 3 months of acceptance (previously within 3 months of publication). Sites like Academia.edu and ResearchGate are not considered to be institutional or subject repositories.
  • Queen’s is committed to making research open access where possible. There is an OA Team and an OA Policy in place, to enable researchers to do this. Pure, the database behind the Queen’s institutional repository, facilitates transparency, interoperability, the re-use of data and long-term preservation; whereas there are no such guarantees with social networking sites.
  • Academia.edu and ResearchGate are both commercial sites and neither is affiliated to an academic organisation. They both have more similarities to Facebook or Twitter than they do to institutional repositories. Queen’s Research Portal is a non-profit repository.
  • Social networking sites can use aggressive marketing strategies, often sending mass emails or unsolicited invitations to your co-authors. The Queen’s Open Access Team will only contact you regarding research that you have uploaded to the repository, for the purposes of support and enhancing your record.

To find out more about the pros and cons of using both social networking sites and open access repositories see http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/12/a-social-networking-site-is-not-an-open-access-repository/

If you need more information on open access at Queen’s, please see our webpages, email us at openaccess@qub.ac.uk or follow us on Twitter.

 

 

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Queen’s signs up to the Open Library of Humanities.

Posted on 9th May 2018 by Open Access Team

The library is delighted to announce that it is now a supporting institution of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). OLH

The OLH is an academic led publishing platform that supports academic journals from across the humanities disciplines, as well as hosting its own multidisciplinary journal. Unlike many open access publishers, the OLH does not charge any author fees. Instead, it’s costs are covered by an international library consortium.

The OLH currently hosts 22 fully open access journals showcasing research from a number of Humanities disciplines including Classics, Modern Languages, Philosophy, History and Sociology.

So if you are a humanities researcher, why not consider the OLH as a publication outlet for your article? For further information please visit the OLH website or contact the  open access team at openaccesss@qub.ac.uk

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Queen’s University Belfast Publishes APC expenditure for 2017

Posted on 4th May 2018 by Open Access Team

The Library’s Open Access Team has published, on behalf of the University, an Article Processing Charges (APCs) expenditure report for 2017.

During this period, a total of £208,132.96 was spent on APCs, enabling 171 articles by Queen’s authors to be made open access via the gold route.

In 2017, Queen’s dramatically reduced its expenditure on APCs published in hybrid journals, with only 33% of APCs (excluding Springer Compact articles) being made Gold via this route. This shift from hybrid to fully open access journals is significant, particularly when compared to Queen’s APC data from 2016.

The significant increase in both expenditure and the number of articles published in Pure Gold journals reflects the University’s support for fully open access publishing and the commitment to offer Pure Gold OA to as many of our academics as possible.

Other points of interest:

Hybrid Gold is considerably more expensive.

Type                                                                         Ave APC (£)
Hybrid journal £2,103
Fully OA journal £1,419

 

APCs charged by the American Chemical Society are the most expensive that Queen’s paid in 2017.

Publisher APCs paid Sum of APC paid (£) Ave APC (£)
American Chemical Society 4 £19,572.19  £4,893.05
Society for Neuroscience 1 £4,151.23 £4,151.23
Elsevier 7 £21,347.35 £3,049.62
Nature 8 £17,731.74 £2,216.47

The full report can be viewed on Queen’s Research Portal.

If you would like to know if your paper is eligible for Gold Open Access, please visit the open access LibGuide or email openaccess@qub.ac.uk

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Queen’s signs up to Open Book Publishers

Posted on 1st May 2018 by Rebecca Clarke

The library is delighted to announce that it is now a supporting member of Open Book Publishers (OBP).                                                                      88956565

OBP is a non-profit publisher of open access monographs, with a commitment to make  high-quality monographs freely available to readers around the world.

OBP is currently the biggest open access academic publisher of monographs in the UK, with over 120 books freely available to read and download from the Queen’s library catalogue.

OBP publishes monographs and textbooks in any area of the Humanities and Social Sciences, but also accepts book proposals in Science, Mathematics, and Medicine. Its authors range from early-career academics to eminent scholars such as Noam Chomsky and Amartya Sen.

For more information on OBP, including the book submission process, please visit their website or email openaccess@qub.ac.uk

 

 

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Additional PC and Study Spaces for Summer 2018 Examination Period

Posted on 16th April 2018 by Borrower Services

Following feedback from students last year, and in the context of ongoing pressure on the McClay Library during examination periods, some additional PC and study spaces have been reserved for student use over the next few weeks.

The spaces involved are:

Students’ Union Space1 (80 study seats) on the first floor of the Students’ Union
Students’ Union Space 2 (48 study seats) on the first floor of the Students’ Union

MBC/01/110 (85 PCs) on the first floor of the Medical Biology Centre on the Lisburn Road
MBC/01/114 (76 PCs) on the first floor of the Medical Biology Centre on the Lisburn Road

A full schedule of availability between Tuesday 17 April and Sunday 13 May can be found in the link below.

Additional PC and Study Spaces for Summer 2018 Examination Period

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