All postgraduate thesis students are automatically enrolled in the Learn course called Thesis-02. Here they are able to submit their thesis to Turnitin.  This will become a compulsory part of the submission process.

The TelSIG (LIANZA’s Tertiary Education Libraries Special Interest Group) conference is being held at UC on 4-5 July. The organizing committee (led by Theresa) needs volunteers to help with logistics.

Directional Assistance
Hold up sign outside Jack Mann Auditorium. Walk people over to Otakaro. Other duties as directed. You will be able to sit in on the conference sessions at these times.

Times

Drivers
On. Monday 4^th July we require 3 drivers to transport delegates from Jack Mann to Macmillan Brown at 3.55, then to return to Jack Mann and drive the remaining delegates to Bentleys for the social function. You will also need to collect and return the minivan to Security.

Please reply to Janette Nicolle if you are able to help (check with your manager first).

Thomson Reuters are hosting an IP&Science Roadshow at UC.

When: Wednesday 18 May 2016 (i.e. next Wednesday!) from 9:00am to 12:30pm

Where: The John Britten Building foyer (previously known as the NZI3 building, on Creyke Road)

Cost: Free
Have a look at the agenda on the Roadshow webpage. As is to be expected, Thomson Reuters products will dominate the programme, and I expect a robust sales flavour to the morning.

Register on the Roadshow webpage if you’re interested in attending.

Janette (on behalf of Stuart)

Just a reminder about the Library Research Support workshops which are aimed at postgraduate students (and staff).  These include EndNote, Using RSS & Social Bookmarking Tools to Keep Current, An Introduction to Research Data Management and Where to Publish.  Bookings can be made by clicking Book a Library Workshop on the Library home-page.

If you encounter any students who require help with statistics, you could might like to refer them to the Statistics Consulting service

Summon now has a new feature – the “Altmetrics Badge”.   This means that you can view the altmetrics data for individual articles where available.  Altmetrics can be described as alternative metrics. In contrast to traditional  metrics (citations) altmetrics measure the impact of the article in social media sites such as Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook etc.

For example if you select this article you will view the attached altmetric data:

Malek, A., & Costa, C. (2015). Integrating communities into tourism planning through social innovation. Tourism Planning & Development, 12(3), 281-299. doi:10.1080/21568316.2014.951125

Jean-François Desvignes-Hicks from Thomson Reuters is providing a webex training session on the new Incites platform which includes Essential Science Indicators, Journal Citation Reports and Incites Benchmarking & Analytics.  Feel free to bring your own to device to work through examples with Jean- François.  You will to ensure you have  a Thomson Reuters password set up.

Date: Tuesday 2nd February: 10.30-12
Venue: Kauri (Level 5 PJH)
Book here

If you would like to attend one of these sessions, I have set up a booking sheet for library  staff
thanks,
Janette

Next week is Open Access week.  There will be posters and displays in all campus libraries plus information on library news.  The library is also offering a session on Open Access and the Nature of Scholarly Publishing, presented by Anton Angelo and Dave Lane.

The session will be run twice:
Tuesday 27th October at 11am
Wednesday 28th October at 2pm
 Venue: Room210, Central Library

All members of the university community are welcome.

Hi everyone,
Jean-Francois Desvignes-Hicks will be at UC on Monday 5th October from 10.30-11.30 to update us on the Web of Science database.  If you would like to attend please book here.
Janette