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Funds and prizes: a few things to remind PG students of

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There are two initiatives we can remind postgrads and early career researchers about – the Library Open Access Fund, and the UC Foundation Doctoral Publication Prize

Doctoral Publication Prize.
If a student has work accepted for publishing while they are studying, and they are the lead author, they can apply for a prize of $1000 if they publish in a Q1 journal, or $500 in another scimago ranked publication. There are a few other qualifications, like they’ll need to have a verified ORCID number.
https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/postgraduate/uc-foundation-doctoral-publication-prize/ 

Library Open Access Fund
The LOAF can fund costs for Open Access publishing for students and early career researchers. The fund has increased in 2021 to $80,000, and we really want to encourage applications for it. The criteria are essentially – OK journal, not hybrid unless it is in transformation to completely OA, have tried to fund from elsewhere, at least partially.
There is a new comprehensive information sheet on the OA libguide.
https://canterbury.libguides.com/sharepublish/openaccess
Direct link to the LOAF part of the OA libguides:
https://canterbury.libguides.com/sharepublish/openaccess#s-lg-box-wrapper-22049483

Library Wide, Staff Development

Presentation of MIS Ebook Research Project Results

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I’d like to invite everyone to a presentation of my MIS research project results. My project was entitled: Attitudes Towards and Use of Ebooks at the University of Canterbury.

Date: Friday, 14 October

Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm

Location: Room 210, Central Library

Research Report: Nick-Scullin-580-Final-Research-Report

All welcome! 🙂

And another meme…

Library Wide

Data Sciences

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If you have a burning desire to know what UC are doing about data management… the minutes from the 6th UC Data Sciences Working Group meeting are now available: K:\LIBR-Library\Management\Reporting\UC-meetings\Data-Sciences

Highlights include

  • First professorial role in Spatial Data Infrastructure appointed to the Geospatial Research Institute
  • UC researchers involved in data science research activity with Te Punaha Matatini and National Science Challenges.Big Data
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Ready for data librarianship?

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noun_301196_ccNot even sure what on earth data librarianship is?

Well, it’s the Next Big Thing.  Handling raw research data, storing it, licensing it and reusing it are big tasks that are being expected of researchers, and we are going to be there to help them.

To prepare for this brave new world, the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) have organised a “23 research data things” program over the rest of the year.  An hour a week with a choice of activities, combined with regular get-togethers, and we can all learn the basics together.  Handling sensitive data, publishing, licensing, it’s all covered.

If you think you might be interested you can see the site ANDS has put together.  If you want to participate, register, and then talk to me and we’ll set up regular get togethers to go over what we have learned.

Anton A, for the Research Support Group.

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Symplectic Elements

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Research & Innovation are managing a project to replace the existing research output management system (Output module of Profiler) with Symplectic Elements.

Their business case was successful and the project has just begun.  Implementation will begin now with the system going live in early 2017.

The other modules in Profiler will remain and Symplectic Elements will be integrated with Profiler, PeopleSoft and the UCRR.

One of the advantages of the new system will be its links to Web of Science and SCOPUS, allowing academics can retrieve their citation data from these services.