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The University of Aberdeen and Elsevier: 13 August 2021 - Update on negotiations
The contract between academic publisher Elsevier and UK Universities is due for renewal in December 2020. We are closely involved in the negotiations and Simon Bains, University Librarian, sits on the Universities UK strategic committee which is overseeing the process. Simon is working with academic libraries and the negotiators to support the...
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Good news - Additional Library Content
Following significant additional investment of nearly £200,000 by the University in Library resources an extended range of electronic books and online collections are available in 2021/22. Products were carefully selected to support research and teaching across many disciplines and include databases, collections, major reference works and individual book titles. Selection criteria...
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Libraries closed on Monday 12 July
All Library sites will be closed for the public holiday on Monday 12 July. Our libraries will open again on Tuesday 13 July. Full details of opening hours for all libraries are available at: https://bit.ly/2Vdhmjl
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The Sir Duncan Rice Library closed today 22 June 2021
Due to an external problem which is affecting the SDRL ventilation system we have had to close the Library today, 22 June 2021. Taylor and Medical Libraries remain open. We apologise for the inconvenience.
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Ex Libris Alma and Leganto implementation at UoA: Press release from Ex Libris
In 2020, the University of Aberdeen went live with the Ex Libris Alma library services platform and Ex Libris Leganto course reading list solution. These two cloud-based services are integrated with the Ex Libris Primo discovery tool, which the University has been using for a number of years. The Alma platform replaced the Aleph...
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Elsevier Negotiations at University of Aberdeen
With our current Elsevier contract due to end in December 2021, the University is working with Jisc, Universities UK and other universities across the UK to negotiate a new multiyear agreement for access to Elsevier ScienceDirect. ScienceDirect costs the UK HE sector £50 million per year and accounts for 25% of...
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Live Q&A sessions: Library resources and services
Issues or difficulties when looking for material to support your research? If the answer is yes, come along to one of our online Q&A sessions starting this Thursday 11 February. You will be able to ask us any questions you may have and we’ll do our best to answer them. All...
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Migration of Aberdeen University's digital collections to new asset manager
Aberdeen University's digitised theses, photographic collections, exam papers, manuscripts and other assets have been moved to a new platform.
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Wednesday Information Sessions from the Scholarly Communications Team
What is Scholarly Communications? Wednesday 18 November at 14:00 will give an overview of our services and provide information on how we can help you navigate the process of making your research open access. Introduction to Open Research on Wednesday 25 November at 14:00 will provide advice, guidance and support to help...
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Update to the Jisc Wiley Open Access Publishing Agreement
Funds in the Jisc Wiley Open Access Agreement have been exhausted for 2020. The agreement will reopen in January 2021. Articles submitted for publication in Wiley subscription journals should be published under the standard licence to publish; taking the green open access route to deposit the accepted manuscript in Pure/AURA....