*NEW* Research Bites 2018

Research Bites 2018

Aston University Library Research Bites series is now under way.  Dr Jeanette Lilley a Professional Development Advisor in the Graduate School, has spoken about the ethics and codes of practice when publishing in journals.  Iwan Griffiths, MSc Business Careers Consultant discussed the Research Student Career Essentials. The full programme is available via the Research Bites LibGuide. Please take a look and book to attend.

Calling EAS researchers, students and staff!

Trial to AccessEngineering platform available until 30th June 2018: http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/az.php. Send your feedback to Kerstin Treder at k.treder@aston.ac.uk

New book from SPIE Digital Library: How to Write a Good Scientific Paper, by Chris A. Mack

The SPIE Digital Library has published a free eBook: How to Write a Good Scientific Paper, by Chris A. Mack, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS.

This title will be valuable to all engineers, researchers, scientists, faculty, and students in optics, photonics, engineering and science. The free eBook is available for download in the SPIE Digital Library at https://bit.ly/2GolS2b or http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/az.php?a=s

The Research Services Team in the Library have a new member of staff

Dr Leigh Stork, Open Access & Research Repository Specialist,  joins us from Imperial College London with a wealth of experience in managing many aspects of Open Access. Leigh, along with Malcolm Horne and Ammar Wahid, will be pushing forward the ‘open science’ agenda at Aston. An important element of this is to increase the success rate of Green Open Access. Aston researchers, whether corresponding authors or co-authors, should:

·         Always deposit your Author Accepted Manuscript/Final Peer-Reviewed Draft of upcoming journal articles and conference papers into Pure on or very soon after acceptance (within three months max.)

·         Add your past and other publications to Pure

·         Upload datasets to Aston Data Explorer and add a dataset DOI to your paper (as applicable)

Doing this in all cases meets strict funder requirements (e.g. RCUK and EU) and helps us prepare for the selection process for REF 2021. Of course, additional benefits are increased impact and citation rates, appearance in altmetrics, and interlinking with your School webpages. ORCiD can help too in ensuring that all your publications and grants are linked to your profile, so we encourage you to add your ORCiD ID to Pure as well.

For further information, please see/contact:

• Open Access LibGuide; openaccess@aston.ac.uk
• PURE Guidance (Intranet)
• Research Data Management LibGuide; researchdata@aston.ac.uk
• Researcher Profiles LibGuide 

Aston authors/researchers publishing in Institute of Physics (IoP) journals

Aston is a member of IoP's 'Gold' open access (OA) offsetting deal. This offsets 90% of our OA payments (for articles in IoP subscription/hybrid journals) against the cost of our subscription fees for the following year.

IoP will ask if you would like Gold OA at acceptance. If your paper is eligible, Aston encourages you to go for Gold because of the size of the available discount, but please note conditions do apply to the use of central funds to pay for the APC - http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/openaccess.