Posted by Ela Aspillaga on 24 January, 2013
Schedule Wednesday, February 6th. Place: Visionen.
Come and meet representatives from several parts of the University.
Listen to lectures about the process of writing a thesis, preventing plagiarism, choosing sources, motivation and much more.
Ask questions and get help with Word, basic search assistance, reference management tips and more.
Obs! all lectures are held both in Swedish and English. No registration is required.
Come, listen, ask and have a cup of coffee with us!
Schedule VT-13 2013
In category: Event, Thesis
Posted by Jonas Olsfelt on 11 January, 2013
According to the official DiVA-statistics there were 568,181 full-text documents downloaded from Halmstad University in 2012. The figure is an increase of 41.5% since 2011.
The 2011 result was in turn a nearly 70 percent increase from the previous year. (The first year for which we have complete statistics.)
In other words, the trend continues to be strongly positive. Most of the downloads – 66.3% – can be traced back to search results from Google.
This means that when it comes to full-text downloads, University of Halmstad is in seventh place of the 29 DiVA-affiliated universities in the national statistics (after Linköping, KTH, Uppsala, Linné, Umeå and Stockholm).
We do not have any corresponding international statistics for the day, but – just to take one example – the number of downloads last year from the University College of London – which is among the leading in the statistics in the UK – was nearly 585,000. In relation to this, the result must be seen as quite remarkable, and in general we can conclude that the usage per publication in DiVA system is very high.
(Läs detta inlägg på svenska.)
Posted by Jonas Olsfelt on 5 December, 2012
In a new project initiated by the University Library and aimed at scholars here at Halmstad University, we will investigate issues regarding strategic publishing, open access and bibliometrics (analysis of publication data).
The aim is to support the scholars in their publishing activities and make visible our university’s scientific publishing at a time when we see a lot of development and some far reaching changes in the field of scholarly communication. The core of the project is to contribute to increased knowledge and strategic awareness of scientific publishing in open dialogue with the research environments.
The project starts with four initial activities in order to have a complete and strategic roadmap of how we can proceed into the next phase, which is the knowledge and information part of the project.
1. Quality assessment of DiVA registrations
All the publications by the university staff are registered in our publication database DiVA. It is decisive to assess the quality and the completeness of the registrations to ensure that all records meet a high standard suitable for searchability, bibliometric analysis and statistics.
2. Bibliometric mapping
The project includes a survey of the present publication patterns of the university research environments. The library plans to visualize and present these data in forms that are understandable and easy to talk about.
3. Awareness
A general awareness of trends and developments in the field of scientific publishing are communicated through the project. The research environments will receive news of on-going publication trends and are encouraged to discuss different ways of publishing suitable to their subject areas.
4. Benchmark process
The library will benchmark the handling of scholarly publications in other universities to find a model of best practice and consider implementing any changes appropriate to Halmstad University.
The most important part of the project consists of having interesting and valuable discussions with research environments in a way that both scholars and library staff find a common platform for communicating about scientific publishing and the visibility and impact it has in academia as well as in society at large.
The different project activities will eventually come together in a complete inventory of problems about publishing issues. This may form the basis for recommendations/guidelines, possible policies and a final strategy document to be issued at the end of 2013.
Posted by Ela Aspillaga on 22 February, 2012
Are you writing a thesis? Are you going to write thesis? Are you interested in the process of writing a thesis?
Schedule Tuesday, March 6th between 11:00-16:15.
”To write a thesis” is a combination of lectures, a small exibition and drop-in. In collaboration with representatives from several areas of the University. No registration is required. For more information see the program.
Come, listen, ask and have a cup of coffee with us!
Sincerely
The University Library
In category: Event, Thesis
Posted by Patrik Bergvall on 7 December, 2011
Now you can dowload an entire document from ebrary as en e-book
To download an entire ebrary document thereby creating an e-book for temporary access you need Adobe Digital Editions, a free software program. (Not available for Linux, and not supported on Kindle.) You also need to set up an account at Adobe and at ebrary, both of which are free.
You will be able to read and annotate the e-book offline, and transfer it to your supported devices. Access periods are 7 or 14 days, but you can return it early. You can have up to 10 ebrary e-books at a time.
Some ebrary documents may not be available for this type of download.
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