This is the first of two posts reporting on an environment scan of Open Access (OA) in New Zealand. The second will be up later this week and will give an overview of Massey University’s state of Open Access. A working group of the Council of NZ University Librarians (CONZUL) has reviewed the current state of Open Access (OA) in New Zealand, based on an analysis of 2017 articles by NZ university researchers. An infographic has been produced (see below). OA refers to free, unrestricted, online access to research outputs, although can extend to open scholarship (encompassing anything from open data to open educational resources). The focus of the CONZUL report was on access to research publications. Key findings The citation...Read more
GODWITS/KŪAKA WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON Join Dr Mike Dickison (former NZ Wikipedian-at-Large, currently Research Information Advisor at Massey) to learn about Wikipedia editing and improve the Massey and NZ coverage of these global migrants who...Read more
Discover now signs you into your personal EBSCO account when you enter your Massey username and password. This means you can download ebooks, save items and searches in folders, and take notes within content without the previous system of having...Read more
Massey researchers now have another open access (OA) publishing option which is free to them, a recent development in the ever-changing OA landscape. The Library has just signed its first transformative agreements with journal publishers – a...Read more
Come and discover the archival collections of Massey University, including student magazines, photographs, objects, documents, personal papers and much more. On 7 November from 10am to 2pm, during Palmerston North Local History Week, the Massey...Read more
Congratulations, you’ve published! Now what? If you want your publication to have some impact, you now need to tell people about it. See how dissemination fits in with your publishing and profile strategies in this short webinar Maximising...Read more
Nau mai, haere mai! Massey University Library Te Putanga Ki Te Ao Mātauranga invite you to this lecture by Lynell Tuffery Huria to mark Open Access Week 2019. Live streamimg and a recording will also be available at...Read more
Bonus+, which lets you borrow books from many Australian university libraries for free, has been flying books to us for 10 years. More details on this service are on the Bonus+ borrowing scheme page. Celebrate with us by grabbing some...Read more
Postgrad doing research? Get help from subject librarians, writing experts and Graduate Research School staff Research topics, using databases, data management, citing, writing & more! Wednesday 24th July 3.00 – 4.30 ...Read more
Kia ora! Haere mai! Welcome to the sixth podcast in the series, SOAP (Scholarly and Open Access Publishing). This series is part of Massey University’s offering leading on Open Access Photo by Helloquence on Unsplash Podcast #6 Mandates...Read more
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