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 We’ve taken an historical/chronological look at open access so far, so we’ll continue with that approach. In today’s podcast we’d like to look at open access mandates and how they have shaped the scholarly communication landscape. We’ll cover what mandates are, when they arose, who are implementing them, and the effect or impact they have or not. Listen to the podcast and share your comments with us below. We’d love to hear from you! Listen to the Podcast here in shorter...Read more
Have you saved a Discover link which didn’t work later? Here’s how to do it… It’s really important to get the permanent link, not the link in the address bar at the top of the page, which breaks when you leave the page...Read more
We can help you with the citation and H-index aspects of your promotion application, with a workshop, webinar, web pages and Subject Librarian help. You are advised to “tell the Committee about your citation indices, H indexes and so on...Read more
Kia ora! Haere mai! Welcome to the fifth podcast in the series, SOAP (Scholarly and Open Access Publishing). This series is part of Massey University’s offering leading up to and beyond Open Access Week (22-28 October 2018) #OAWeek2018 ...Read more
A few minutes editing a Wikipedia page can expose your research to hundreds or thousands of views a day, and potentially double the readership of your publication, according to NZ Wikipedian-at-Large Dr Mike Dickison who visited Massey University...Read more
New Zealand’s Wikipedian at Large*, Dr Mike Dickison is visiting the Manawatū campus to give talks on why and how you can engage with Wikipedia. “How Wiki Works” is open to all (Tue 19th March 12.10pm SSLB3) Everybody uses Wikipedia...Read more
Discover, our main search tool, has a new set of limits which allows you to: exclude articles – so you’ll get mostly print and ebooks (the equivalent to the old catalogue search, for those who used this a few years ago) view just the...Read more
The latest version of EndNote is now available for PCs, free for Massey staff and students to download via our EndNote page. We recommend all current users should move to the new version to take advantage of major improvements in stability...Read more
The word this week is: piupiu (pew-pew) a waist-to-knee garment made of flax The goup had piupiu made for the bi-annual event. Kupu o te wiki brought to you by the Library’s Māori staff...Read more
The word this week is: Meri Kirihimete (Merry Christmas) Have a safe and Meri Kirihimete Kupu o te wiki brought to you by the Library’s Māori staff...Read more
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