Tuesday 2 November 2021

Resources and tools to assist you in finding funding and managing the end to end Research Grant Lifecycle.

This useful guide from the MU Research Development Office will bring you through the process of finding funding, preparing your proposal, preparing your budget and compliance.

Friday 22 October 2021

Now available in MU, EndNoteX20 is the latest version of EndNote Desktop which supercedes the version currently available in MU, EndNoteX9. It features a new interface design, improved PDF reading, new workflow enhancements and new options for detecting duplicates If you are an existing user you can upgrade to EndNoteX20 via AppsAnywhere If you are a new user, download EndNoteX20 from AppsAnywhere To see whats new in EndNoteX20 check out the guide EndNoteX20 For queries contact the Research Support Librarian ciaran.quinn@mu.ie

Annual report: a recap of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) activities in 2020

DORA’s vision is to advance practical and robust approaches to research assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines. Dora's annual report makes for interesting reading particulary the section relating to the Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA) project. The aim of Project TARA is to identify, understand, and make visible the criteria and standards universities use to make hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions. This information will be used to create resources and practical guidance on the reform of research assessment for academic and scholarly institutions. Project TARA is a collaboration with Sarah de Rijcke, Professor in Science and Evaluation Studies and Director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, and Ruth Schmidt, Associate Professor at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Wednesday 28 July 2021

National Framework on the Transition to an Open Research Environment The National Framework is a key deliverable of the National Open Research Forum (NORF), which was set up in 2017 to bring together key members of the research community to drive Ireland’s open research agenda as set out in Innovation 2020, Ireland’s research and development, science and technology strategy. The National Framework on the Transition to an Open Research Environment has been developed as the first step in a process to create a National Action Plan for the transition to an open research environment in Ireland. There has been a series of seminars relating to this report, the lastest one was presented as a webinar. Open Research in Ireland: Infrastructures for Open Research (Webinar) 4th May 2021(4th in a series of Webinars relating to the above report)

Friday 26 March 2021

EndNoteX9 (Reference management & Citation Tool) is now available for all MU staff,students,academics and researchers to download from AppsAnywhere This is the desktop version of EndNote (you may be already familiar with its companion piece EndNote Online). When you download it, you'll also need the product code to complete the installation, which is in one of the two files that download onto your device. Key features of EndNote X9 are the ability to store unilimted PDF's on your device, annotation of PDF's, many additional referencing styles. EndNoteX9 and Endnote online can be synchronised so you need never be without your EndNote Library. For further details check out the guide https://nuim.libguides.com/referencing/tools.

Transformative Open Access Agreements

A number of open access agreements with publishers have been facilitated by IReL (Irish Research eLibrary) which typically allow corresponding authors from eligible institutions to publish their articles open access immediately on publication, without an article process charge (APC) being levied. Full details of the current agreements with publishers are available at https://irel.ie/open-access/

Research evaluation should be pragmatic, not a choice between peer review and metrics

Responding to the growing momentum of movements, such as DORA and CoARA, Giovanni Abramo argues for a more nuanced balance between the use o...