The University Archive is home to resources dating back to a time before the University was even founded. If you have an interest in local history or the history of the University, the polytechnic that it was before, and the…
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Not waving but drowning: 5 ways to learn to tackle assignments better
It’s a big, wide ocean of information out there and fishing for the things you want for your particular assignment can be challenging. That’s where the Library can help. Check out our top five tips below for getting on and…
Posted in Services Tagged with: databases, Discovery Service, distance learning, e-resources, research, teaching
International Open Access Week – what’s happening at Portsmouth
Open Access is all about removing pay barriers and publisher control to make the research output of universities and other institutions available to everyone in order to maximise its impact and its usefulness to everyone. Open Science is now an…
Postgraduate Research (PGR) Student Wellbeing Survey
Are you a postgraduate research student at the University? If so, you are invited to take part in an Office for Students funded wellbeing study the University is running. This study aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of…
Learn Citavi in 20 minutes
Citavi is a powerful and increasingly popular project and reference management tool. The free version supports up to 100 references and offers the full range of tools as the purchased/licensed full version, so you can try everything Citavi has to…
Introducing Citavi for reference and project management
Joining the existing cast of popular reference management apps, including Zotero and Mendeley, Citavi is an increasingly popular research project management tool that also supports reference management.
Posted in IT, Thing of the Day Tagged with: distance learning, referencing, research, software, study
Showcasing your blossoming research for REF 2018: introducing ORCIDs
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment approaches once again. Research England has strongly recommended anyone submitting to the REF in 2018 to have their own Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). If you want more information on setting up and…
Google as platform, Google as publisher?
Among the many things Google is involved in at the moment is the controversial new e-journal Distill, a product of its the Distill Working Group. Operated at a distance as a peer-reviewed academic journal in the area of artificial intelligence, questions…
Put your PhD on another open access pedestal
Polishing off your PhD? As well as submitting your thesis to the University’s open access Research Portal and the British Library’s digitisation scheme EThOS, you can now archive your thesis online at the Thesis Commons, providing yet another platform indexed…
Historical gleanings on Government House
Ever wondered how there was room for such a spacious library with park surrounding it in the middle of the urban sprawl that is Portsmouth? The answer might surprise you…
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