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We would like to advise the university community and our external library users that, due to staff shortages, Taylor Library will be closed on the following days:

The Sir Duncan…

Get ready to elevate your digital prowess with our upcoming training sessions! Join the Digital Skills team on campus or online for a range of sessions to improve your information and digital capabilities. Everyone is welcome to attend; whether you're looking to sharpen your existing abilities or dive into new…

What is an Open Access Agreement?

Transitional Agreements (aka Read and Publish) are agreements between an institution and a publisher where the subscription and publish fees are bundled into one package.

Members of the institution then have read access to the publications and can also publish gold open access…

Using metrics to select a journal involves evaluating the journal's citation rates to gain insights into its influence and the visibility of its published research. Several metrics are available to assess journals, and the rank of a title can vary depending on the measure used. Journals with high metric scores…

What is a DOI?

Most researchers will be familiar with a DOI but not realise exactly what it does or how useful it is. A DOI is a Digital Object Identifier. The DOI is a unique and persistent identifier assigned to any object or information about an object, that resolves…

Do you want to boost your digital skills? Would you like to learn strategies for literature searching or managing your notes? Maybe you want to hear about tools to make your academic work more efficient.

There’s lots of information online about improving your academic performance, but knowing where to start…

What are the Creative Commons licences?

Creative Commons (CC) are a suite of licences that an author applies to their work to set out the terms of how it can be shared and reused. CC licences allow you to make your work openly available while retaining control over how…

Open Access can feel like a maze of options, but fear not – our Open Research Team are here to simplify the journey.

Short on time? Check out our brief video for a quick overview.

Open Access means making a research output freely available to read, download and reuse…

This February and March, we are celebrating the achievements of women and girls in science: several of whom were trailblazers in their time, and whose research and work is making a profound difference in the world. Recently, February 11th marked the 9th Women & Girls in Science Day, with the…

The lovely therapets and their helpers will be making their way to Taylor Library for some Woofy Wednesday fun! Starting from the 13^th of March and then every other Wednesday, the therapets will be in Taylor for an hour between 14:00 and 15:00 to share cuddles and help you de-stress.