1,000th paper added to City Research Online!
Last Weds 5th September we made live our 1,000th full text, openly accessible paper. The article in question was part of the Department of Economics Discussion Papers series, entitled: García-Alonso,...
View ArticleUsing City Research Online to serve papers to RePEc
One of the promises of the creation of a network of institutional repositories was that this would truly be a network, in the sense that there would be facility for appropriate transfer of material...
View ArticleOpen Access Week 2012: Opening Research and Data
Last week, as part of Open Access Week 2012, colleagues at LSHTM, Birkbeck, LSE, and SOAS (as well as myself) organised an event, Opening Research and Data. It was intended to be a broad overview of...
View ArticleResearch Libraries UK conference 2012
Last week I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Research Libraries UK conference 2012. It was held at St James’ Park in Newcastle, a rather huge football stadium (though of course we used the...
View ArticleMaking City Research Online OpenAire compliant
We’ve just made City Research Online (CRO) OpenAire compliant. This means that all EU FP7 funded research added to CRO will be made available via OpenAire’s Discovery Portal, and that this research...
View ArticleAdding Almetrics badges to City Research Online
First post of 2013! I’ve been lax in posting to this blog, apologies loyal readers! A nice new piece of functionality with City Research Online’s repository- we have added Altmetrics badges to records....
View ArticleQuick update
Just a quick post to say that we’re still here and still working on making City a more open access-friendly place! In lieu of any major pieces of news about the service, here are a couple of other...
View ArticleEvent report: “Dealing with Data – what’s the role for the library?”
Sorry for the lack of posts to this blog, loyal readers. I intend to write something about the work we’re doing on staff profiles here at City soon. In the meantime, here’s a write-up of an event I...
View ArticleRepository records now in City’s new Library Search
Over the last few months I’ve been involved in implementing Summon here at City, which we have called Library Search. One of the things we wanted to make sure we included in Library Search’s content...
View ArticleOpen access journal hosting in City Research Online: Learning at City Journal
We’ve recently been working with colleagues in City’s Learning Development Centre (LDC) and at EPrints Services to use our EPrints repository to host the LDC’s Learning at City Journal. The idea was to...
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