UK Government data available for re-use

Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government are opening up data for reuse. There is great potential for academics, researchers and students.

data.gov.uk seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data and is under constant development. Feedback and reuse of data in innovative applications is very much encouraged.

>>>About data.gov.uk

AtmosPeer

ProQuest has designed a new social network for researchers, academics, librarians and students in the atmospheric science community. AtmosPeer connects atmospheric scientists with colleagues, emerging research trends, current news feeds, conference information, and funding opportunities. It allows scholars to identify peers doing similar research and creates a simple method for document sharing and collaboration. It also includes background on current and upcoming conferences and a deep indexing tool that uncovers data and findings not only in the text, but in the tables and figures, too.

>>>Go to AtmosPeer

BURO now ranks amongst the World's top 200 institutional repositories

BURO (Bournemouth University Research Online) has risen to an impressive 195th in the Ranking Web of World Institutional Repositories - a rise of 86 places since January 2009!

BURO now contains more than 8950 research outputs by 815 BU academics, research students and professional staff. This reflects BURO's excellent growth, visability and the increasing commitment of academic staff to autonomous contribution as part of their research processes.

The Subject Librarians continue to offer high quality help, training and advice to all members of staff.

Temporary BURO Editing Problem now resolved

If you experience any problems whilst editing you documents in BURO or require any other BURO-related help please contact your School Subject Librarian

>>>Subject Librarians

*****NOW RESOLVED*****
We have discovered an intermittent error that seems to be occurring when editing items in BURO. ePrints are currently trying to resolve this. Please refrain from editing items for the moment until you are notified that this problem has been resolved.

EndNoteWeb - authenticate every 12months for continuous use.

Staff/students/researchers may freely use EndNote Web for 12 months after they leave BU. Current users need to login via an on-campus pc at least once every year to authenicate their roaming EndNote Web for use off-campus.

>>>EndNote Web - roaming advice

Create an EndNote Web account to manage your references both on and off-campus and output them in the Harvard(BourneU) style. You must be on-campus to create an account.

Patterns of information use and exchange: case studies of researchers in the life sciences

The Research Information Network (RIN) and the British Library have produced a report that addresses research patterns in life sciences.

It reveals that researcher practices diverge from policies promoted by funders and information service providers. The report concludes ‘one-size-fits-all’ information and data sharing policies are not achieving scientifically productive and cost-efficient information use in life sciences.

Key findings include:

* Researchers use informal and trusted sources of advice from colleagues, rather than institutional service teams, to help identify information sources and resources
* The use of social networking tools for scientific research purposes is far more limited than expected
* Data and information sharing activities are mainly driven by needs and benefits perceived as most important by life scientists rather than ‘top-down’ policies and strategies
* There are marked differences in the patterns of information use and exchange between research groups active in different areas of the life sciences, reinforcing the need to avoid standardised policy approaches

>>>Patterns of information use and exchange: case studies of researchers in the life sciences

EThOS - Update

EThOS, the British Library's thesis digitisation service launched in January and has so far made over 24,000 theses available for immediate download. It allows researchers to access theses online and showcases the quality of UK postgraduate research.

The service has been extremely popular with researchers and digitisation times for theses not already available electronically have dramatically reduced.

Already Bournemouth University has 142 digitised theses in EThOS, which are also being added to BURO.