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Open Access – A review on the current state of OA at Massey

March 19, 2020

This post is the second of two relating to the current state of Open Access  in New Zealand. The first is here. Massey University’s data was extracted from the national sample and analysed in the same way and found that two thirds of Massey-authored articles are behind paywalls, missing out on the 44% more citations that open access can give – and 80% of these could be made open access at no cost to the authors, according to recent research. Building on the work of a project sponsored by the Council of NZ University Librarians (CONZUL) to review the current state of Open Access (OA) in New Zealand, a refined analysis of 2017 articles by Massey University researchers has informed a Massey-specific infographic (below)...Read more

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Open Access – A review of the current state of OA in New Zealand

March 18, 2020

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...Read more

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The godwits/kūaka on Wikipedia need your help!

February 24, 2020

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

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Automatic sign-in to Discover

February 13, 2020

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

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New open access publishing option free to Massey researchers

November 22, 2019

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

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Your invitation to explore Massey University Archives

October 17, 2019

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

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Disseminating your research

October 4, 2019

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

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Open Access Week Lecture: Open knowledge and mātauranga Māori

September 19, 2019

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

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Bonus+ is 10 years old

July 17, 2019

  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

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Research party

July 12, 2019

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

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