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The future of repositories
A few weeks ago we went to Córdoba to attend the 14th REBIUN Workshop on digital projects and the 6th OS-Repositorios Conference, “Los horizontes de los repositorios” (The future of repositories)....
View ArticleAcademic plagiarism and libraries
When it comes to finding information, the Internet has become university students’ go-to source. This is nothing new. It is also no surprise how the ease with which enormous amounts of information...
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The UOC Library collaborated with Hands-On ICT project about Learning Design
The UOC Virtual Library has collaborated with Hands-On ICT: Learn, practice, teach creativity and ICT, in the workshops held in Seville and Madrid on 15th-16th of April. These workshops were led by...
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Bookmetrix: Springer adds Altmetric to a database
Use of altmetrics (ALMs) is a topic on the rise in academic circles, and libraries and librarians are especially interested in keeping up with developments. Despite the fact that most parts of...
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What can you do as a researcher to increase the visibility of your research?
There is no magic formula to increase the visibility of your research, but you can use strategies to try and increase citations and downloads of scientific articles. However, you need to bear in mind...
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The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics
For some time now scientometricians, social scientists and research administrators have been questioning the reliability of scientific evaluation models based solely on quantitative analysis. Indeed,...
View ArticleLibraries and Research Data: Towards a new leadership role
The 44th Liber Annual Conference took place between 24 and 26 June at Senate House in London. Although the conference focused on the topic of “Toward Open Science”, I would like to highlight some of...
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The most popular tools for research
An interesting survey produced by the Innovation in Scholarly Communication group at Utrecht University shows the main tools used by researchers. The study organizes researchers’ most common activities...
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Some resources about Open Education
In this post I would like to let you know about some interesting information, that came to my hands recently, about online learning and open educational resources. On the one hand the OER Research Hub,...
View ArticleKeep calm changes are coming
The team here at the UOC Library are working on new blog and will no longer be updating LibTechNotes. We would like to thank you all for following our blog over these years and we will let you know...
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