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CityLibrary makes History
November 26, 2018
Chris
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CityLibrary makes History

Posted in Archives, Research, and Today in history

On Tuesday, November 27th, CityLibrary will take part in History Day for the first time. History Day is an annual event at Senate House bringing together libraries, archives and associated organisations to create a programme of drop-in talks and a fair designed to inspire and support researchers. CityLibrary staff will have a stall in the main History Fair displaying items from the City, University of London Archive and Special Collections. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Women in History’ and so our display will focus on the significant impact and achievement of women at City, as well as showcasing some…

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November 7, 2018
Alexandra
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Resource of the month: British Library Newspapers

Posted in Online Resources, Research, Resource of the month, and School of Arts and Social Sciences

The British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. The collection includes national and regional newspapers with special attention paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection. Newspaper images can be magnified for easier reading or reduced for on screen navigation. You can save and print article images, create persistent links and email them to others. What can I search for? News…

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The benefits of open access
October 23, 2018
David McTaggart
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The benefits of open access

Posted in City Research Online

The principle benefits of open access were first enshrined within the visionary Budapest Open Access Initiative statement released on 14 February 2002 and are still very much alive 16 years later. The convergence of research sharing with technological distribution via the internet, it declared, would create an “unprecedented public good” by facilitating free, unrestricted access to information for academics, scientists, students and the general public. “Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be,…

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July 30, 2018
David McTaggart
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City Research Online (CRO) to be closed for maintenance

Posted in City Research Online, Downtime, Online Resources, and Research

City Research Online (CRO) will be unavailable between 2am and 8am on Tuesday 31st July 2018 due to scheduled system maintenance. CRO is expected to be back online at the scheduled time, however, the period of unavailablility could potentially extend until 12pm. For more information please contact publications@city.ac.uk. The library apologises for any inconvenience caused.

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March 29, 2018
David McTaggart
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ACT on ACCEPTANCE: make the REF 2021

Posted in City Research Online, and Research

What is Act on Acceptance? From 1st April 2018, changes to UKRI’s open access policy (formerly HEFCE) require researchers to submit their work to City Research Online within 3 months of acceptance to be eligible for the next REF. As soon as you know your research will be published in a peer-reviewed journal, or conference proceedings, Act on Acceptance and make your research open access. What do you have to do? Upload your publications to your Publications profile as soon as possible after they have been accepted for publication. Make sure it’s the accepted manuscript and not the published version: the…

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