This document provides an overview of discovering doctoral theses. It discusses Durham Theses, theses available in the UK through indexes like Index to Theses and EThOS, and international theses available through databases like ProQuest Digital Dissertations, DART, and OAIster. Users are encouraged to search these resources and familiarize themselves with accessing and utilizing doctoral theses.
Finding and using OERs - an introduction. Learn to Share to Learn,A joint conference from the South Western Regional Library Service and the JISC Regional Support Centre South West.Taunton Rugby Club March 23rd 2011
Step by step guide to the deposit process for PhD students registered from 2011 onwards. Includes considerations e.g. third party copyright, restrictions, ethical considerations
Open licensing and academic research - 9th april 2014 Vivien Rolfe
Open education and open licensing, and recent changes to UK research policy: Open Access for the next REF, funding body requirements for Open Data, and Open Lab Notebooks.
Finding and using OERs - an introduction. Learn to Share to Learn,A joint conference from the South Western Regional Library Service and the JISC Regional Support Centre South West.Taunton Rugby Club March 23rd 2011
Step by step guide to the deposit process for PhD students registered from 2011 onwards. Includes considerations e.g. third party copyright, restrictions, ethical considerations
Open licensing and academic research - 9th april 2014 Vivien Rolfe
Open education and open licensing, and recent changes to UK research policy: Open Access for the next REF, funding body requirements for Open Data, and Open Lab Notebooks.
Lecture presented atby Johann Frederick "Igor" Cabbab at PAARL's Conference on the theme "The Power of Convergence: Technology and Connectivity in the 21st Century Library and Information Services" held on Nov. 11-13, 2009 at St Paul College, Pasig City
Proposed use of METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard) at National ...Gill Hamilton
Presentation given by Gill Hamilton (Systems Librarian, National Library of Scotland) and Tarik Rahman (Repository developer, National Library of Scotland) to colleagues from National Library of Scotland (NLS) and National Archives Scotland (NAS) on the NLS's plans to use METS as a means of ingest and dissemination of digital and other objects in the Library's Fedora repository
Open scholarship [a FOSTER open science talk]Ross Mounce
A talk by Dr Ross Mounce, given at the FOSTER Open Science event 4th September, King's College London http://www.fosteropenscience.eu/event/foster-discovering-open-practices-pgr-and-early-career-researchers-0
Open Data and Open Science presented in Rio for Open Science 2014-08-22. I argue that Open Notebook Science is the way forward and will lead to great benefits
Information Extraction from EuroParliament and UK Parliament dataWim Peters
These slides describe the work done at the CLARIN talk of Europe Creative Camp, in which groups from various countries worked with EuroParliament speeches.
Our work covers term extraction, term organisation and term linking between the Europarliament and UK Parliament data sets.
Presentation given at the University of Sydney, 11 October 2013. An introduction to open access publishing for academics in the humanities and social sciences.
Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?
In this slideshow, Jill Cirasella (Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, Graduate Center, CUNY) explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). She also dispels persistent myths about OA and examines some of the challenges to OA.
Talk given at Library Technology Conference in St. Paul, MN, March 2010 titled Selecting Metadata Field Concepts and Names. Gives 4 case studies that show the process of choosing metadata terms, covers data dictionary and user need importance.
This task was designed to help guide discussions during the second meeting of partners on the C-SAP (Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics) Open Educational Resources [OER] Phase II project: Cascading Social Science Open Educational Resources. Through the use of reflexive tasks, the project team aims to develop a collaborative framework for cascading OERs within social sciences.
Open Access for Early Career ResearchersRoss Mounce
My talk for the University of Bath Open Access Week session; 23rd October 2013.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/rdu/courses/pgskills/modules/RP00335.htm
Center for Open Science and the Open Science Framework: Dataverse Add-on by S...datascienceiqss
The Open Science Framework (OSF: http://osf.io; supported and maintained by the Center for Open Science - COS: http://centerforopenscience.org/) is a free, open source workflow management service and repository designed for scientists to manage and connect everything across their research process. One of the first add-on connections was Dataverse, which provides value to users through an easy connection as a repository service. This talk will introduce the Dataverse add-on connection and provide a technical view of how it was built and how it connects the OSF and Dataverse.
Lecture presented atby Johann Frederick "Igor" Cabbab at PAARL's Conference on the theme "The Power of Convergence: Technology and Connectivity in the 21st Century Library and Information Services" held on Nov. 11-13, 2009 at St Paul College, Pasig City
Proposed use of METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard) at National ...Gill Hamilton
Presentation given by Gill Hamilton (Systems Librarian, National Library of Scotland) and Tarik Rahman (Repository developer, National Library of Scotland) to colleagues from National Library of Scotland (NLS) and National Archives Scotland (NAS) on the NLS's plans to use METS as a means of ingest and dissemination of digital and other objects in the Library's Fedora repository
Open scholarship [a FOSTER open science talk]Ross Mounce
A talk by Dr Ross Mounce, given at the FOSTER Open Science event 4th September, King's College London http://www.fosteropenscience.eu/event/foster-discovering-open-practices-pgr-and-early-career-researchers-0
Open Data and Open Science presented in Rio for Open Science 2014-08-22. I argue that Open Notebook Science is the way forward and will lead to great benefits
Information Extraction from EuroParliament and UK Parliament dataWim Peters
These slides describe the work done at the CLARIN talk of Europe Creative Camp, in which groups from various countries worked with EuroParliament speeches.
Our work covers term extraction, term organisation and term linking between the Europarliament and UK Parliament data sets.
Presentation given at the University of Sydney, 11 October 2013. An introduction to open access publishing for academics in the humanities and social sciences.
Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?
In this slideshow, Jill Cirasella (Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, Graduate Center, CUNY) explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). She also dispels persistent myths about OA and examines some of the challenges to OA.
Talk given at Library Technology Conference in St. Paul, MN, March 2010 titled Selecting Metadata Field Concepts and Names. Gives 4 case studies that show the process of choosing metadata terms, covers data dictionary and user need importance.
This task was designed to help guide discussions during the second meeting of partners on the C-SAP (Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics) Open Educational Resources [OER] Phase II project: Cascading Social Science Open Educational Resources. Through the use of reflexive tasks, the project team aims to develop a collaborative framework for cascading OERs within social sciences.
Open Access for Early Career ResearchersRoss Mounce
My talk for the University of Bath Open Access Week session; 23rd October 2013.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/rdu/courses/pgskills/modules/RP00335.htm
Center for Open Science and the Open Science Framework: Dataverse Add-on by S...datascienceiqss
The Open Science Framework (OSF: http://osf.io; supported and maintained by the Center for Open Science - COS: http://centerforopenscience.org/) is a free, open source workflow management service and repository designed for scientists to manage and connect everything across their research process. One of the first add-on connections was Dataverse, which provides value to users through an easy connection as a repository service. This talk will introduce the Dataverse add-on connection and provide a technical view of how it was built and how it connects the OSF and Dataverse.
EffectiveSearching: Part 1 (Web Version)Jamie Bisset
Part 1 (of 5) Overview of effective search strategies.
- PART 1: Overview, Key concepts and keywords
- PART 2: Broadening your search
- PART 3: Narrowing your search
- PART 4: Constructing your search
- PART 5: Citation searching
Beyond Books and Journals: Conference Papers and ThesesJamie Bisset
Introductory session delivered as part of Durham Doctoral Training Programme.
The Theses and Conference Papers workshop will provide demo’s and hands-on time to explore Durham, UK and international theses collections which are accessible online, as well as an overview of resources for finding and locating conference papers and upcoming conferences.
British Library Labs: Lessons learned in its first yearlabsbl
Presentation given at Online Information 2013
TRACK 2: EXPLOITING SEARCH, RESEARCH & DISCOVERY
Tools and e-resources for researchers
Online Information Show 2013
Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, London, SW1V 1EQ, UK
Wednesday 20th of November, 2013, 1130 - 1200
by Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs
Beyond Academic Literature session (October 2013) slides. Delivered as part of the Durham University Researcher Development Programme. Further Training available at https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/training/
A whistle-stop tour of resources encompassing newspapers (and news resources), Conference papers, Official Publications, e-books and Doctoral Theses.
Digital Publishing in the Arts and Humanitiesmattphillpott
Dr Matt Phillpott
Fellows Forum (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
3 June 2015, 1pm-2pm
Talk about the various forms of digital publishing open to artresearchers including articles, monographs, blogs, websites, presentations, and repositories.
A open science presentation focusing on the benefits to be gained and basic practices to follow. This was given on behalf of FOSTER at the Open Science Boos(t)camp event at KU Leuven on 24th October 2014.
Overview of UKRI Open Access Policy 2022
Covers the Scope, requirements and funding for policy. Outlines the key actions for authors. Focus on Research Articles (April 2022) but also overview of requirements for long-form publications (Monographs, book chapters, edited collections) from January 2024.
Intended audience: Durham University staff and student authors of research articles.
Presentation embedded alongside further information at https://libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_research/policies/ukri
Version 1.1 2022.03.02
Effective Searching: Part 4 - Constructing your search (Web Version)Jamie Bisset
Part 4 (of 5) Overview of effective search strategies.
- PART 1: Overview, Key concepts and keywords
- PART 2: Broadening your search
- PART 3: Narrowing your search
- PART 4: Constructing your search
- PART 5: Citation searching
Part 4 covers:
- Grouping your search terms
- Constructing your search
- Using the search history
- Evaluating your search
Effective Searching: Part 3 - Narrow your search (Web Version)Jamie Bisset
Part 3 (of 5) Overview of effective search strategies.
- PART 1: Overview, Key concepts and keywords
- PART 2: Broadening your search
- PART 3: Narrowing your search
- PART 4: Constructing your search
- PART 5: Citation searching
Part 3 covers:
- Combining search concepts
- Services which differ: Google Scholar, Nexis, Ebsco, Scopus
- Proximity Connectors
- Phrase searching
- Excluding terms
- Searching with facets
- Filtering your results using facets
- Boolean connectors
Effective Searching: Part 2 - Broaden your search (Web Version)Jamie Bisset
Part 2 (of 5) Overview of effective search strategies.
- PART 1: Overview, Key concepts and keywords
- PART 2: Broadening your search
- PART 3: Narrowing your search
- PART 4: Constructing your search
- PART 5: Citation searching
Part 2 covers:
- Accounting for synonyms
- Accounting for changes in terminology
- Accounting for alternative spellings
- term trunctaion
- hyphenated and plural terms
- Boolean connectors, wildcards, truncation tools
Effective Searching: Part 1 - Overview, Key concepts and keywords (Web Version)Jamie Bisset
Part 1 (of 5) Overview of effective search strategies.
- PART 1: Overview, Key concepts and keywords
- PART 2: Broadening your search
- PART 3: Narrowing your search
- PART 4: Constructing your search
- PART 5: Citation searching
Part 1 covers:
- Overview of search approach
- Identifying key concepts and thinking about keywords.
Durham Part Time Distance Research Student 2019: Sample Library SlidesJamie Bisset
Sample slides from the 2019 “Part-time and Distance Doctoral Student” Event at Durham University, taken from workshops delivered by Durham University Library staff.
“By 2020 scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants provided by participating national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.”
- Overview of Plan S
- Key Principles and Purpose
- Key Issues of interest to authors
- Chance to provide your feedback, ask questions
“By 2020 scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants provided by participating national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.”
- Overview of Plan S
- Key Principles and Purpose
- Key Issues of interest to authors
- Chance to provide your feedback, ask questions
Durham Leading Research Programme: Academic ImpactJamie Bisset
Aims of the Module
Researchers intending to publish are met with an increasingly complex world of options, influences and pressures. The digital landscape and developments in open access publishing provide additional dissemination channels beyond traditional print; bibliometric tools purport to measure journals’ academic impact ; funder mandates, institutional mandates and routine research assessment exercises place additional requirements on authors which may influence their choice of where and how to publish. The aim of this module is to help researchers navigate this territory and make well- informed decisions.
Content
• Background to the development and use of publication metrics as research indicators, and the issues surrounding this.
• Journal metrics: assess the academic impact of journals, including Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports and other measures.
• Citations and author metrics: tools available to assess an authors’ individual citation counts and impact, including the h-index.
Approach
The module will take the form of a workshop with on-screen demonstrations and hands-on opportunity, with some presentation and hand-out materials highlighting issues and discussions within the academic community.
Intended outcomes
By the end of the session participants will:
• Increased awareness of the various journal and author metrics available.
• Developed understanding of the key issues around the use of these metrics and what research behaviours might be incentivised.
• Awareness of the potential opportunities for exploring wider academic and non-academic impact of publications from altmetric tools available.
Durham Researcher Development Programme 2015-16: Bibliometric Research Indica...Jamie Bisset
There is an ever-increasing need to make your research more visible as you establish your career, and metrics to measure your research performance when it comes to thinking about promotion and probation.
This session will focus on bibliometric research indicators (such as the Journal Impact Factor and SCImago, author metrics such as the h-index and g-index) and sources for accessing citation data (Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports and Google Scholar). These may be one of several factors to consider when thinking about where to submit an article manuscript for publication to maximise the potential academic impact of the research, and tools useful to be familiar with if they form part of any research evaluation you and your authored journal papers may be subject to.
An additional section will also look at tips to consider when writing an article abstract to maximise its discoverability and cite-ability.
Learning Outcomes:
• Understanding of meaning and intended uses of bibliometric research indicators
• Understanding of how some key indicators (JIF, H-index) are calculated
• Ability to make a judgement as to the appropriateness and limitations of such indicators
• Ability to use online datasets to view and calculate key bibliometric measures
• Awareness of some factors which can increase the visibility and discoverability of your own research in bibliographic databases.
Previous participants have said:
"The session has helped provide me with the basic information on Journal Impact and where to find information such as an author's h-index. It will be useful for future journal submission consideration."
"This session was very useful for me to become familiar with the topic."
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Thinking of getting a dog? Be aware that breeds like Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, and German Shepherds can be loyal and dangerous. Proper training and socialization are crucial to preventing aggressive behaviors. Ensure safety by understanding their needs and always supervising interactions. Stay safe, and enjoy your furry friends!
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
2. Session outline
- Durham Theses
- Theses in the UK
- Index to Theses
- EThOS
- International theses
- ProQuest Digital Dissertations
- DART, ADT, OAIster
4. Thesis Submission at
Durham
• You will have to submit an electronic copy of your
thesis in pdf format.
• E-theses are open access: available to anyone,
anywhere in the world
• Think about third-party copyright and use of research
data
• Consider what you want to do with your research after
you pass
e.g. embargo, creative commons licence
5.
6. Durham theses
- Library Catalogue
- Search by author, keyword, title
- Find print and e-theses (limit to e-book)
- Thesis request form for confined consultation
- Browse via web pages
- Durham e-theses
- Additional search / browse options
7. Hands-on
• Try to find a Durham thesis using
- Catalogue
- E-Theses
http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/theses/
9. Theses in the UK
• Index to Theses
- Bibliographic details
- Advanced search options
• EThOS
- Full text available for immediate download
- Full text scanned for free
- Contact the institutional library to access
- Full text available, for a fee
13. Theses at other institutions
- For theses where you asked to pay
to download from EThOS
- For those not available via EThOS
- Use Durham Library’s Document Delivery Service
14. Hands-on
• Try the following databases for UK
theses
- Index to Theses (via catalogue)
- EThOS (freely available) – you will need to
register to download the full-text of a
thesis
http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/theses/
17. International Theses
• Open access resources
- DART (European Portal)
- Trove Australian Theses Programme
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations
- South African Theses and Dissertations
- OAIster
18. Hands-on
• Try finding a full text Theses using one of the
following:
- Proquest Digital Dissertations
- DART
- Trove Australian Theses Programme
- OAIster
http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/theses/
19. Summary
- Durham Theses
- think about what copyright you wish to use to
disseminate your work, and about reasons fro
restricting access
- Accessing Theses
- many are free to access online
- some may require payment – use Document Delivery
Service to avoid paying full cost yourself
20. Summary
- Durham Theses
- Durham e-theses
- Theses in the UK
- Index to Theses
- EThOS
- International theses
- ProQuest Digital Dissertations
- DART, Trove, OAIster
Have open Library web page, but mention that will be using another page - http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/using/finding/theses/ - - from which everything linked to from this page that will be referred to in this sessionPurposeful title – ‘discovering’- as no one database.
Start at 0:05Talk about role of theses for finding research but also just to look at to see structure etc.Mention looking at full text databases but some embargoed - though you’ll usually find their details.Say that handout is brief because everything on the online page including tips and tutorials
We’ll just look quickly at the submission process for you, and also searching and browsing the thesis collection here at Durham.
Para 1: This guidance is for the process after examination, but before you can be awarded your doctorate.Electronic submission: after examination, normally 3-4 weeks after letters of outcome. You still need to follow the guidance and submit 2 copies of a soft-bound copy for examination.Para 2/3: See Graduate School site. All submissions made open access (requirement under Freedom of Information and institution in receipt of public funding). You can apply for an embargo, primarily for on of four reasons: intend to publish soon / patentable or commercially sensitive material / disclosure would release into the public domain data collected either (i) in confidence or (ii) restricted by data protection legislation.Para 3: In order to restrict access, you must discuss with your supervisor and both complete and sign a ‘restricting access’ form. You should also think about issues around any images or graphics you have used in your thesis which might require copyright clearance. You should have done this in any case! Also, informing any research participants, ideally at the point they participate (such as letting them know data they will provide will be in the public domain, and if they will anonymous or identifiable).Para 4: What do you want to do? Embargo so you can publish or patent? Release under licence to access and read but not re-use? Licence to read, access and re-use? What about the data you have collected – will you make that available, and clearly indicate how someone can access this? - Creative Commons allow all of this, usually under various requirements and versions, the basic being re-use with acknowledgement to you as the author.Talk about them submitting and thinking about what they include – getting copyright clearance etc for images and large quotations, informing any research participants etc.http://www.dur.ac.uk/graduate.school/current-students/submissionandbeyond/
Think about what copyright you wish to use prior to submission fro examination. Nothing confuses a reader more than you releasing on a creative commons licence, but then including in the actual text a copyright statement you have cut-and-pasted from another thesis you were using to help you put together the correct structure.
Everything in catalogue (print and e). Print theses: Currently being digitised and each month more are being added to our online collection. No print theses available for consultation during digitisation period.
Allow 5-10 minutes
35 minutes in.
EThOS covers 122 UK Universities, Index to Theses does not cover all of these (eg Bath Spa, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Brighton) but also includes Irish Universities not covered by EThOS and some additional UK Universities (including those which have been subsumed into existing institutions, such as many of the old London colleges).Use the two together (see examples in following slides) - generallyIndex to Theses has broader coverage, but not always. - EThOS ‘advanced search’ appears to give you options to search more facets, but search function isn’t perfect and it may be that not all Theses on EThOS have abstracts, compared to those available on Index to Theses.In neither service are you searching full text.Want to make a comprehensive search – need to search both.Just making a quick search to find a couple of examples you can access full text immediately, not fussed on items meeting very specific criteria (eg looking more at examples of structure, bibliographies, language style, so want recent examples) – go with EThOS (as can limit to full text availability, even if not as broad a search sometimes).
Example – restricted search, EThOS apparently returns more results...... But is infact because EThOS second guesses what you actually searched for (returns ‘Tori’ as well as ‘Tory’)
Second example...Ethos returns 33 results....Index to Theses returns 42 results....Generally, Index to Theses will return more results as it has a wider coverage of historic content, and receives bibliographic information direct from some Universities.However, not quite so clear cut... As also receives bibliographic records from Universities via ethos, and updates content from ethos. As updates are made only at specific points during the year, there is potential for recent items to appear on ethos and not Index to Theses.Additionally, Index to Theses offers more options for searching for items.
Index to theses: Explain four different search options. Simple search will often suffice, and I would normally go with ‘simple search’ or ‘standard search’ simply for the option to include more data.Quick search is a bit to basic.Advanced search is really more for those who enjoying making life difficult for themselves.N.B. Point out that class search is not standardised as students decided which category they fitted into so best to leave blank unless have an unambiguous term. Point out ‘class list’.DEMOEThOSNeed to register and login to download.Free if already digitised. Ethos - 122 universities taking part, but not all providing immediate open access to theses – Oxford, Cambridge aren’t for example. Search engine doesn’t always return what you know to be in there so find bets to use in tandem with ItT.Adv search much more useful than basic search.DEMO
Also mention some may not appear on either service. If you know it exists, try searching the institutions own site.