News Roundup May 2017

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Publons Academy

Publons has launched the Publons Acadamy, a peer review training course for early career researchers, which aims to teach the core skills needed by a peer reviewer.

Peer Review Week

Peer Review Week 2017 has been announced. Running from 11-17 September, this is a global event that celebrates the importance of peer review in the scholarly communications landscape. Various online and in-person events will be organised around the world. See more information here.

RDM Toolkit

LEARN has launched the Toolkit of Best Practice for Research Data Management. It presents best practice case studies and sample policy and leadership strategies for setting up research data management plans. Free to download, it was launched at the LEARN Final Conference on 5 May 2017, in London, UK.

4:AM Altmetrics Conference

The 2017 Altmetrics Conference has been announced. It will be held in Toronto, Canada, from 26-29 September. The call for papers is open until 12 June.

LawArXiv

A new pre-prints server for law articles has been launched. LawArXiv is intended to host early versions of published papers.

Interpreting Altmetrics

Altmetric has produced a new blogpost on how to interpret Altmetric data around academic research. It reminds researchers not just to look at Altmetric scores, but to look more closely at the specific mentions.

Untangling Academic Publishing

Emerging from a 4-year project funded by the UK AHRC, the Untangling Academic Publishing has been published. It provides a historical grounding on the interrelationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the communication of research. In doing so, this report offers insights into what the future of academic publishing might look like.

 

 

Repository Summary May 2017

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Below you will find a summary of UWL Repository activity for May 2017. We will provide this data each month, showing the most talked about outputs (highest Altmetric scores) and the most downloaded outputs. Links to these papers are included below so you access these via our open access repository.

The top 5 most downloaded outputs for May 2017:

1. Berridge, Graham (2015) Event experiences: design, management and impact. Doctoral thesis, University of West London.

2. Brown, Roger (2015) The marketisation of higher education: issues and ironies. New Vistas, 1 (1). pp. 4-9.

3. Demeke, Wegene (2014) Small and Micro Business Enterprises (SMBEs) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: development and poverty reduction through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), with particular reference to the hotel industry and associated businesses. Doctoral thesis, University of West London.

4. Hine, Benjamin A. and Northeast, Tony (2016) Using feed-forward strategies in higher education. The terrifying novel assignment: using feed-forward to improve students’ ability and confidence on assignments that test new skills. New Vistas, 2 (1). pp. 28-33.

5. Marinakou, Evangelia, Giousmpasoglou, Charalampos and Paliktzoglou, Vasileios (2016) The brain drain phenomenon in higher education in Greece: attitudes and opinions on the decision to immigrate. In: 3rd Annual International Conference on Humanities & Arts in a Global World, 3-6 January 2016, Athens, Greece.

The top 3 most talked about papers:

1. Forster, Marc (2017). Information Literacy in the Workplace. Facet Publishing, London, UK. ISBN 9781783301324

2. Lynam, Siobhan and Cachia, Moira (2017) Students’ perceptions of the role of assessments at higher education. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education.

3. Canfield, Martha, Worrell, Marcia and Gilvarry, Catherine (2017) Determinants of substance use amongst Brazilians residing in the UK: the role of acculturation. Drug and Alcohol Review.

Our data is provided by EPrints (via the UWL Repository), IRUS-UK, and Altmetric.