MyRI at QMU

The fantastic Irish-based MyRI (My Research Impact) project tutorials on bibliometrics have been adapted for Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. The QMU version is available here.

Google Scholar Citations

Google Scholar has just gone fully live with its new Google Scholar Citations service. Authors can create a private or public profile, track citations to their publications and follow publications by colleagues.

QMU Research Support lunch

The LRC will be hosting a drop-in lunchtime session from 12-2pm on Tuesday 15th November for QMU research staff. Please come along to find out more about our research support services including eResearch and its MePrints personal webpages, how eResearch is being used for the REF, open access publishing advice and our eData service. As lunch is being provided, it would be appreciated if you could let Helen Muir know if you are able to attend for catering numbers.

'Managing and Sharing Data - best practice for researchers' guide

The UKDA has just released a 3rd edition of Managing and sharing data: best practice for researchers . This gives researchers a good overview of how to best manage their data when they are in the research project process, and also advises on how to effectively share data, which is becoming more of a priority with research funding bodies.

2000th paper in eResearch

The eResearch repository team, here at Queen Margaret University, was delighted to hit the 2000th deposit milestone today. The paper was deposited by Professor Brian Hay (visiting professor to the Division of Business, Enterprise & Management), and is a peer-reviewed, open access conference paper.

socialsciencespace

Launched on January 12th 2011, socialsciencespace has been created by SAGE publishers to bring together individuals, groups and organisations who are active or interested in social sciences research.

You can also follow socialsciencespace on Twitter.

eResearch and the REF

The lack of blog posting from Research Support in recent times, has had a lot to do with the decsion here at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, that our repository, eResearch is to be used to report for the REF. As we're preparing for our annual research publications audit, this has meant a lot of time being spent catching up with researcher's publications lists, and also going out and about to show our researchers how they can deposit their work in eResearch for themselves.

QMU Research Support is now busy getting ready for Open Access Week next week, but more of that later...