JournalTOCs - Current Awareness Service

JournalTOCs is a current awareness service which enables you to keep up-to-date with the scholarly journals in your areas of research. It is a freely available service for individual users. It provides access to the largest, free collection of scholarly Tables of Contents, over 21,000 journals from over 1,700 publishers. You can choose which journals you would like to follow and you will then be alerted when new issues of your followed journals are published.

Oxford Brookes Library webpages for researchers provide a range of information specifically for researchers including a section, under Managing information, on keeping up-to-date. There are details about online databases and e-journal collections that offer alerting services which help you stay current.

VITAE - realising the potential of researchers

Vitae is a UK organisation which brings together all the stakeholders who work with researchers, such as funders, national organisations, policy makers, to develop policy and practices to support resarchers. There is a wealth of information available on the Vitae website for researchers, supervisors and employers. The section for postgraduate researchers contains information and advice on how to manage your research and yourself, how to develop and motivations for doing postgraduate research. There is advice on raising your profile, presenting your research and developing your career. Within this section there is also a link to 'The Researcher Development Framework' (RDF) which covers all aspects of professional development for researchers.

Managing Research Data

Does your research involve data? How do you store and share it? Did you know that some funders now require a data management plan? Research data managment is currently a very topical area. There are a range of publications and websites which can help you get to grips with all aspects of data managment.

 

Mantra is a freely available online course which has been developed primarily for PhD students and early career researchers. Mantra provides guidelines for good practice in many aspects of research data management. It consists of a number of units including: research data explained, data management plans, organising data, storage and preservation.

 

You can link to Mantra from the Research data management webpages at: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/research/resdatamanagement.html

 

 

Library Training for Researchers

The Library is offering the following training sessions this semester for researchers. All sessions take place in the Headington library Training Room 12.00 - 13.00. There is no need to book.

Information at your desktop: finding your way around the Electronic Library
This session provides details of the range of electronic resources available at your desktop, including journals, journal collections, databases and reference resources.
Thursday 21 February and Tuesday 26 February

Keeping up-to-date
Keep abreast of new research and development in your subject area: find out how to keep up-to-date with new publications in journals, books, conferences and more; track your research using the Web of Knowledge citation indexes. 
Tuesday 5 March and Monday 25 March

EndNote reference management service - we are offering two different sessions this semester:
Tuesday 12 March  - An introduction to the key features of EndNote X5.
Tuesday 26 March and Friday 19 April - EndNote drop-in sessions:  to help you with your EndNote (desktop or Web) questions and problems.  Bring along any queries you have and a copy of your EndNote library and associated Word documents - there will be an opportunity to do some practical work.
 
Please contact libraryenquiries@brookes.ac.uk if you have any queries.

EndNote - help and training

The Library is offering a number of training sessions on EndNote this semester to help you manage your references more effectively. The Libary training pages provide details of the sessions still to come this semester.

The Library has also produced a suite of EndNote webpages which provide lots of information, including: Getting started with EndNote, Adding references to your library, Using Endnote with Word, Further help. There is also a new email enquiry service to help you with any EndNote problems available at lr-endnote@brookes.ac.uk

Keeping up-to-date with your research

The Library is running a training session to help researchers keep abreast of new research and development in their subject area: find out how to keep up-to-date with new publications in journals, books, conferences and more; track your research using the Web of Science citation indexes. The session will take place in the Headington Library Training Room, Tuesday 27 November, 12.00 – 13.00. There is no need to book.

If you are unable to come to the session your Subject Librarian is able to help you find and use appropriate resources for your research including research tools to enable you to keep up-to-date. Details of your Subject Librarian are available from this subject list.

Library resources on your mobile phone or tablet

There are now a range of mobile-friendly web sites and smartphone apps available for a number of our databases and e-journals. If you have a smartphone or tablet and want to discover which resources have mobile-friendly content available, see our page on Library resources on your mobile.

Our Library catalogue is now mobile-friendly, too. It uses screen size detection to supply a version of the catalogue interface suitable for the size of your device. Large-screen devices like desktop or laptop PCs or tablets will see the normal interface, but phones, media players etc. with smaller screens will display a faster loading, less graphics-laden page. The interface works with all main mobile device browsers including iPhone, Android, Opera Mobile/Mini, Windows Phone 7 Mango and the latest Blackberry versions.

The complex nature of some e-resources and the huge variety of mobile devices in circulation may lead to occasional problems when trying to view the desktop version of our electronic resources on a smartphone or tablet. We have a list of the more common issues, and what to do to resolve them, on our mobile problems page.

If you do experience a problem using one of our resources on your smartphone or tablet, please let us know via email at lib.suggestions@brookes.ac.uk or use the Library enquiry form.