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    SPIRAL- Increasing and Assessing the Visibility of your Research
    Provider   Organisational and Staff Development Unit

    This session will introduce and explore recent changes in the scholarly publication landscape, particularly the growing importance of Open Access (OA).

Duration 1 half day

Course Type Workshop

Booking Status Archived

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Target Audience: For those wishing to understand more about the changing scholarly communications landscape and strategies for improving research citation impact

This session will introduce and explore recent changes in the scholarly publication landscape, particularly the growing importance of Open Access (OA), not only for enhancing research visibility and impact but for complying with the OA expectations of a growing number of research funders.

Associated strategies and tools for improving and better understanding citation impact will also be introduced.

Outcomes:

  • Awareness and understanding of emerging OA publishing paradigms
  • How OA publication can support improved research visibility, citation impact and compliance with funder policies on open research
  • Knowledge of practical strategies to maximise research visibility and citation impact
  • An introduction to research intelligence tools to support citation impact strategies


Delivered By: George MacGregor institutional,Repository co-ordinator, IS Customer Services

Prerequisites

None

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