• Open Access Week: Open Book Publishers [webinar]

    Learn about the work of this award-winning, non-profit, academic-led publisher that releases 20+ open access books a year and doesn’t charge its authors any fees. A special webinar for Open Access Week 2019, hosted by Library and Learning Services and free to everyone! Lucy Barnes, Editor at Open Book Publishers, introduces this award-winning, non-profit, academic-led open…

  • Open Access Week: board games & pizza ??

    Free pizza and drinks while you boost your open access knowledge playing some great games! It’s International Open Access Week on the 21st -27th October. The theme this year is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”. The idea behind Open Access Week is to catalyse new conversations and create connections. If you’re a research…

  • Web of Science: one week left

    Last month, we shared the news that we have decided to replace Web of Science with Scopus. This was due to a steady drop in usage for Web of Science, and the extra possibilities offered by Scopus, including a greater range of items and its ability to enhance Pure. Our access to Web of Science…

  • Scopus training [limited spaces]

    Elesevier are delivering a special Scopus training session on Thursday 21 November, hosted by Library and Learning Services in the Catalyst. The workshop will be delivered by Michaela Kurschildgen, Consultant and Customer Success Specialist at Elsevier and covers the following: Part one:– hands-on training covering searching, filters, search results data visualtions, etcPart two:– research metrics…

  • Hello to Scopus!

    We’ve been evaluating our academic literature databases over the Summer and learned there has been a steady drop in the use Web of Science, a multidisciplinary citations database. To see whether an alternative may work better, we ran a trial of Scopus during July. With over 23,500 serial titles and 75 million items, Scopus has…

  • Scopus trial

    Throughout July we have a trial to Scopus, the World’s largest curated abstract and citation database. Scopus is excellent for literature reviews or seeing what has been published in your area as it can locate high quality journal articles, books chapters and more for any subject.  It has advanced tools to visualise your search results,…

  • Pure: new guides available

    Pure is the University’s new research information repository, replacing our previous system EHRA (Edge Hill Research Archive). The new repository looks great and showcases the excellent research being done at Edge Hill, and you can now add your research outputs to Pure. There are a wide range of options, and some of you might not…