Welcome to International Open Access Week 2019

It’s International Open Access Week! This year, publishers, librarians, researchers, and institutions are discussing and organizing events around the theme: “Open for whom?” - see the article in this link for the view from PLOS - https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2019/10/welcome-to-open-access-week-2019/

*WARNING* Passport upgrade

Passport is our market intelligence database providing industry analysis and consumer profiling data.  The company are working on an upgrade to the login process.

 The database may not be accessible from 

Friday 18th October - 12:00pm (GMT)

until 

Saturday 19th October - 17:00 (GMT)

Discover Your Resources - Help Before Hand-In

Have you been set an assignment for Term 1?

Struggling to find relevant information?

Come along to the "Discover Your Resources" workshop programme to gain Help Before Hand-In.  The full programme includes:

• Industry Analysis and Consumer Profiling
• Navigating Nexis UK 
• Getting more out of Google
• Cite it! Sort it! EndNote it!
• Advanced Literature Searching
• Finding Company Information
• How to Read a Journal Article

Full details including dates, times, location and how to book are available at https://libguides.aston.ac.uk/discover

 

Training sessions during "International Open Access Week"

It’s International Open Access Week, 21-25 October 2019, http://www.openaccessweek.org/ .  And to boost awareness for Aston authors/researchers the Research Services Team in Library Services are offering the following 45-minute training sessions in MB525b.

•             Wednesday 23 October, 2-2.45 : Online researcher profiles

Are you interested in learning how to increase your online presence, the discoverability of your publications and the role open access publishing plays in this? If so, come along to this presentation plus Q&A session to learn about the features and benefits of online researcher IDs and social networks (with Malcolm Horne).

•             Thursday 24 October, 2-2:45 : Setting up your Pure profile and adding content

Are you new to Pure or need a reminder on how everything works? Come along to this training session to find out how to make best use of Pure to highlight your teaching, research and academic achievements (with Leigh Stork).

•             Thursday 24 October, 3-4 : Pure drop-in surgery

Following the Pure training, we will be having a drop-in surgery for those who know how to use Pure but have questions or issues that need fixing (with Leigh Stork).

Please contact openaccess@aston.ac.uk  to book your place – we look forward to seeing you soon.