Library Research Engagement Group blog
Our team in the University of Southampton Libraries, in collaboration with the Web Science Institute, arranged an afternoon of talks from the Library of Congress in July 2019. The talks included some exciting examples of data visualisation and inspired us
Read moreWritten By Vicky Fenerty, Research Engagement Librarian To support Open Scholarship across the boundaries of Higher Education (HE) and Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHI), the British Library hosted their 2nd “Open and Engaged”, a one-day conference during International Open Access Week.
Read moreWritten by Steven Vidovic, Open Research Development Manager, Hartley Library, University of Southampton “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford Last week, I was fortunate to be able to attend the
Read moreWritten by Emma Guest, Site and Research Engagement Librarian, National Oceanography Library, University of Southampton The best part of our job is talking to our research community. We get to do this throughout the year but for Open Access Week
Read moreWritten by Paula Sands, Site and Research Engagement Librarian, Health Services Library, University of Southampton The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”. The intention, I believe, is to get us
Read moreOur first activity of Open Access Week 2019 was a 15 minute briefing for staff from the University of Southampton Library, Arts at Southampton and the Public Engagement with Research Unit, followed by questions. I am sure that the high
Read moreWhen I started writing this blog post I titled it “Peer review: the good, the bad and the ugly”. Then I googled “peer review” and found that was not a clever or original title (see here and here for starters),
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