UWTSD Postgraduate Research Festival The Informed Researcher (Based on the SCONUL document, The Informed Researcher)

1. The
informed
researcher
Allison Jones
Dolly Yang

2. Information Literacy
‘…is knowing when and why you need
information, where to find it, and how to
evaluate, use and communicate it in an
ethical manner' (CILIP 2004).
CILIP - Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

4. • Literature searching
• Finding information
• Evaluating information
• Keeping up to date

5. • Plagiarism
• Research data management
• ORCID

6. • Copyright
• Reference management

7. • Open Access
• Measuring impact

9. Framing
your
research

10. Developing
your
research
question

12. Literature review

13. Keyword searching

14. A phrase search

15. Alternative Spelling
Synonyms
Acronyms

16. A truncation (*)
africa* - africa, african,
africans, africaans
A wildcard (?)
e.g. wom?n

17. And Or Not

18. (wom?n or gender)
and agricultur* and
africa*

19. Author
search

20. From a book or
a journal article

21. Citation searching

22. Browsing

23. Finding
Information Click

25. Currency
Relevance
Accuracy
Authority
Purpose
Evaluating Information

26. Keeping up-
to-date

27. Search Alert
Book Alert
TOCs Alert
Click
Click

29. • Plagiarism
• Research Data Management
• ORCID

30. ‘Plagiarism is passing off, or attempting to pass off, another’s work as your own.
It includes copying the words, ideas, images or research results of another
without acknowledgement whether these words etc. are published or
unpublished.’
UWTSD (2014, pp. 16-17)

31. Research Data Management
• What is Research Data
• Why is it important
• Research Data at UWTSD
“Like many other public funders of
research…material that arises from the rsearch we
fund should be made as widely accessible and
reusable as possible. We are keen to make
progress on the open data agenda as part of this.
HEFCE (2015)

32. Research Data Management
Policy
Research Data
Management Policy
• www.uwtsd.ac.uk/...policies/Research-Data-
Management-Policy-27.01.16.pdf

33. ‘White Orchid’ by Lyn Vincent is licenced under CC by ND 2.0
(Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to
uniquely identify scientific and other academic authors and contributors.
White Orchid’ by Lyn Vincent is licenced under CC by ND 2.0

34. Why sign up for an ORCID?
“There are approximately 200,000 people
per unique surname in China. That’s a lot of
“J Wang”s–more than 1200 in nanoscience
alone! Same for lots of other names: we’re
just not as uniquely named as we think.”
Impactstory blog, ‘Ten things you need to know about ORCID’
http://blog.impactstory.org/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-orcid-right-now/

35. ORCID
https://orcid.org/register
• Gives you a unique identity online
• Increasingly adopted by funders and
publishers
• Link it up with your other online profiles
• Moves with you wherever you go.
• Takes 30 seconds to sign up for one! (and
we can help you).

36. Growth in ORCID identifiers, from Oct. 2012-Mar. 2014
http://blog.impactstory.org/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-orcid-right-now/

37. • Copyright
• Reference management

39. Click

40. Do I own the copyright in my
own work?

41. “The student holds copyright as author of all
work submitted for assessment. Each student
must grant the University the right to publish the
thesis, abstract or list of works, and/or to
authorise its publication for any scholarly
purpose with proper acknowledgement of
authorship. Students own the copyright to their
thesis and the rights to publish and distribute it,
unless they have made arrangements to transfer
copyright to a third party (e.g. a sponsor).”
Appendix 1 of the Code of Practice for Research Degrees 2015-16
Guidelines in relation to the format, word count and binding of the thesis

42. Am I allow to include copyright
material in my thesis?

43. “when the thesis is added to the e-repository and
/ or made available in the library, it is considered
‘published’ by copyright law. It is the author’s
responsibility to ensure copyright is cleared and /
or permissions granted. If the thesis contains
copyrighted material and the author is unable to
obtain permission for the deposit e-copy / library
copy then contact copyright@uwtsd.ac.ukfor
advice and to discuss options.”
Appendix 1 of the Code of Practice for Research Degrees 2015-16
Guidelines in relation to the format, word count and binding of the thesis

44. Am I allowed to use any image
from the Internet in my
presentation or in my thesis?

46. Reference
Management

47. Managing your references
• Keep track of the references you’ve gathered
from different sources
• Ensure that you have all the information you
need to provide full and accurate references
• Save time in locating reference details
• Track down the original resource, if
necessary

48. Write-N-Cite

50. • Open Access
• Measuring impact

51. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Jh_Gff
RPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1K
GBCY

52. Why Open Access?
• Enables the prompt and widespread dissemination
of research findings
• Benefits both the efficiency of the research
process and economic growth driven by publicly
funded research
• Increases public understanding of research
• Increased Citation

53. REF 2020
Requirements
• To fulfil its aim of increasing substantially the
proportion of research that is made available by open
access (OA) in the UK, the four UK higher education
funding bodies have introduced a requirement that
outputs submitted to the post-2014 REF be made
available in an open-access form from April 2016
• Open access refers to:
• Unrestricted, online access to the published findings of
research.

54. • When you’ve had a journal article or conference paper
accepted for publication, you need to Act on Acceptance:
• Deposit the accepted manuscript into the UWTSD Open
Access Research Repository within 3 months of acceptance.
• Without this the work will not be eligible for REF2020
• Policy in force now.
• All other outputs (Type B)
• A record of the output must also be deposited,
• The text itself also deposited for preservation purposes
What do I
have to do?

55. Routes to Open Access
Green Route Gold Route

56. Final peer-reviewed text
• Accepted for publication
• Author’s own Word of PDF copy
May otherwise be known as
• ‘accepted author manuscript’
• ‘final author version’
• ‘post-print’
• Green route is sometimes referred to as ‘self-archiving’

57. • Free of charge.
• Cannot usually deposit
publisher’s formatted version.
• Embargo periods may apply.
• ‘Closed deposits’ will be opened
once embargo periods expire.
• Most but not all journals are Green OA compliant.
• You need to consider this in your choice of where to publish.
• Exceptions can apply.
• Exceptions must be referred to the Research Committee in advance if
the journal you wish to publish in is not compliant.

58. Or, for research funded through any of
the seven UK research councils:
• RCUK will accept a delay of no more than
6 months between on‐line publication and the
final Accepted Manuscript becoming Open Access.
• In the case of papers in the arts, humanities and
social sciences (which will mainly be funded by the
AHRC and the ESRC), the maximum embargo
period will be 12 months.

59. Licencing: Funded Research
• Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
licence must be used for research
published under the Gold route
• Green Route, a CC BY licence should
be sought as a matter of preference,
although the open access requirement
can also be met by use of the minimum
of a Creative Commons Attribution-
non-commercial licence (CC BY NC).

60. Open Access Policy
Open Access
Publications Policy
Available here:

61. repository@uwtsd.ac.uk
Learn more
http://uwtsd.ac.uk/library/open-access/

62. Google Scholar Citations
• Track citations to your research and make
sure you appear in Google Scholar results
• View journal rankings and ratings by h
index (a measure of author productivity
and impact)
• Used by the Publish or Perish software to
retrieve and analyse academic citations.

63. H-index
Delasalle (2016)

64. Altmetrics
Altmetrics.com

65. Altmetrics
https://www.altmetric.com/about-altmetrics/the-donut-and-score/

66. Library Twilight Sessions
5.30 – 6.30 in Confucius Room 2
4th July – Using Referencing Software
5th July – Troubleshooting: Access to Resources
6th July – Research Data Management

67. UWTSD Library and Learning Resource
http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/library
Allison Jones
Dolly Yang
outreach@uwtsd.ac.uk

68. Bibliography
Altmetrics (2015) A beginners guide to Altmetrics). Accessed at: https://youtu.be/M6XawJ7-880 (Accessed:
28 June 2016)
Bradley, M. (1994) The informed researcher. Cambridge: SCONUL
Creative Commons. (2016) Creative Commons: Remix. Available at: https://creativecommons.org/ (Accessed:
28 June 2016)
Delasalle, J. (2016) Talking to your researchers about the H-Index. Available at:
https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/talking-your-researchers-about-h-index (Accessed: 28 June 2016)
Harzing, A. W. (2016) Publish or Perish. Available at: http://www.harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish
(Accessed: 28 June 2016)
McGill Library. (2010) Open Access. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Jh_GffRPU
(Accessed: 28 June 2016)
Patterton, L. (2014) An introduction to the basics of Research Data. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2aiDJzJPuw (Accessed: 28 June 2016)

69. Bibliography cont.
Piled Higher and Deeper. (2012) Open Access Explained! Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY (Accessed: 28 June 2016)
Oxford University. (no date) Research Skills Toolkit. Available at:
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/e05e05d2-f4ce-4a24-a008-
031832bd1509/LearningRes_Open/Article_FileNaming.pdf (Accessed: 30 June 2016)
Tattersal, A. (2016) An introduction to altmetrics for librarians, researchers and academics. Available at:
http://www.cilip.org.uk/blog/introduction-altmetrics-librarians-researchers-academics?gclid=Cj0KEQjw7-
K7BRCkkIH3t_WwoskBEiQAD8oY3tCX8C8mepYrMIEw75nqp3-4n0OWcy4f3T3gwpplwYMaAq9q8P8HAQ (Accessed:
28 June 2016)
UWTSD. (2016) Open Access Publications Policy. Available at: http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/media/uwtsd-website/content-
assets/documents/strategies-policies/Open-Access-Publications-Policy-27.01.16.pdf (Access: 30 June 2016)
UWTSD. (2016) Research Data Management Policy. Available at: http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/media/uwtsd-
website/content-assets/documents/strategies-policies/Research-Data-Management-Policy-27.01.16.pdf (Accessed 30
June 2016)
UWTSD. (2015) Research Ethics & Integrity Code of Practice. Available at: http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/media/uwtsd-
website/content-assets/documents/research/Research-Integrity-and-Ethics---Code-of-Practice-(2015-18).pdf
(Accessed 30 June 2016)

70. All images used are either
Creative Commons Zero or
acknowledged under Creative
Commons License