Open Access Publications Policy was agreed through the electronic Senate, and the minutes of the e-Senate were accepted 18th Feb 2009.
The Policy does not become mandatory until 1 Jan 2010. For this year, there is strong encouragement to deposit items.
The policy is available at
http://www.acaffairs.ed.ac.uk/Committees/Senate/Meetings/200809/20090127/C4-OpenAccess.pdf
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users
Five-day workshop 23Mar09 09:30 - 27Mar09 17:00 at the
e-Science Institute,
15 South College Street,
Edinburgh.
Day 1 - Web 2.0 technologies
Day 2 - Clouds
Day 3 - User/usability
Day 4 - User Applications
Day 5 - Tutorials and panels
See this link for the schedule and details of the event and how to apply to attend - http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/968/
e-Science Institute,
15 South College Street,
Edinburgh.
Day 1 - Web 2.0 technologies
Day 2 - Clouds
Day 3 - User/usability
Day 4 - User Applications
Day 5 - Tutorials and panels
See this link for the schedule and details of the event and how to apply to attend - http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/968/
Monday, 16 February 2009
Ebook survey - Amazon vouchers
JISC is conducting a major national survey to find out what students and staff think about electronic books. The "JISC User Exit Survey 2009" is now live.
The survey takes 10-12 minutes to do and all completed surveys will go into a draw to win £200 worth of Amazon vouchers !
The online survey is accessible to students at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/observatory/students/
The survey is accessible to staff at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/observatory/faculty/
There are links to ebooks from library catalogue records.
There is a subset of some of the available chemistry ones at http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resbysub/chem.shtml#chemebks including a link to the RSC ebook collection.
Re the survey, you need to know the following:
"You are under no obligation whatsoever to take part in the survey. Any information you give will be held securely and any findings will under no circumstances be revealed other than at a highly aggregated level. Data is being collected through a third-party, Survey Monkey, the privacy policy for which can be read at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/Monkey_Privacy.aspx"
The survey takes 10-12 minutes to do and all completed surveys will go into a draw to win £200 worth of Amazon vouchers !
The online survey is accessible to students at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/observatory/students/
The survey is accessible to staff at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/observatory/faculty/
There are links to ebooks from library catalogue records.
There is a subset of some of the available chemistry ones at http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resbysub/chem.shtml#chemebks including a link to the RSC ebook collection.
Re the survey, you need to know the following:
"You are under no obligation whatsoever to take part in the survey. Any information you give will be held securely and any findings will under no circumstances be revealed other than at a highly aggregated level. Data is being collected through a third-party, Survey Monkey, the privacy policy for which can be read at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/Monkey_Privacy.aspx"
Crossing The Line - UG chemist's art exhibition
Thursday 19th February, 5.15-7.00pm
Joseph Black building foyer
(Refreshments provided)
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/artcollective/
Crossing the Line is a collection of recent work by undergraduate chemistry student Laura Cocker. It is a combination of installation, photography and text exploring the nature and isolation of scientific knowledge and touching upon the artist's relationship with the invisible realm which the molecular state occupies.
The artworks will be displayed in the foyer of the Joseph Black chemistry building... After the event there will be an Edinburgh Interdisciplinary Discussions Art/Science discussion at the Bowery
Joseph Black building foyer
(Refreshments provided)
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/artcollective/
Crossing the Line is a collection of recent work by undergraduate chemistry student Laura Cocker. It is a combination of installation, photography and text exploring the nature and isolation of scientific knowledge and touching upon the artist's relationship with the invisible realm which the molecular state occupies.
The artworks will be displayed in the foyer of the Joseph Black chemistry building... After the event there will be an Edinburgh Interdisciplinary Discussions Art/Science discussion at the Bowery
Thursday, 12 February 2009
NeSC newsletter - January/February 2009
In this month's newsletter includes pieces on saving lives with the Semantic Web, the new e-Science MSc, new eSI themes, a review of e-Science...
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/news/newsletter/NeSC_news_Jan_Feb_09.pdf
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/news/newsletter/NeSC_news_Jan_Feb_09.pdf
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
increase the creative problem solving skills of science students
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Hugh Fraser Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
To increase the creative problem solving skills of science students attending university, the Centre for Bioscience has organised a day around the theme of creativity in the sciences in collaboration with other STEM Subject Centres (Engineering, Physical Science, ICS, Maths Stats & OR, and Materials).
Through a series of interactive and creative workshop sessions as well as swapshop presentations to share examples of good practice, participants will learn more about the creative process, how to facilitate creativity in your teaching, and understand the importance of creativity as an employability trait for your students.
For more information about the speakers, the event and how to register, please visit: http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/glasgow290409.aspx
Hugh Fraser Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
To increase the creative problem solving skills of science students attending university, the Centre for Bioscience has organised a day around the theme of creativity in the sciences in collaboration with other STEM Subject Centres (Engineering, Physical Science, ICS, Maths Stats & OR, and Materials).
Through a series of interactive and creative workshop sessions as well as swapshop presentations to share examples of good practice, participants will learn more about the creative process, how to facilitate creativity in your teaching, and understand the importance of creativity as an employability trait for your students.
For more information about the speakers, the event and how to register, please visit: http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/events/glasgow290409.aspx
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
SPRESI Molecule and Reaction Database
SPRESI database is "the world's 3rd largest structure and reaction database" and available to the academic community for evaluation on the Daresbury Chemical Database Service.
SPRESIWeb is started from the usual RED SQUARE menu on the CDS main web page.
After logging on to the CDS site, users will be automatically redirected to the SPRESI site.
For more information see:-
http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/datasets/orgchem/spresi/spresi.html
SPRESIWeb is started from the usual RED SQUARE menu on the CDS main web page.
After logging on to the CDS site, users will be automatically redirected to the SPRESI site.
For more information see:-
http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/datasets/orgchem/spresi/spresi.html
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