• Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2007
  Fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide.
• Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006
  An essential, comprehensive and unbiased research tool for everyone studying public affairs, and economic and financial history of the last 120 years. 

Access resources on trial and give feedback at: www.kent.ac.uk/library/resources/e-resources/trial

• Web designer
• Web developer
• Web content editor

All three roles offer flexible working hours to fit around your degree and no previous experience is needed as training will be provided. All vacancies offer excellent rates of pay - between £8-£13 per hour.

Full job descriptions are available online: www.kent.ac.uk/web/recruitment.html

Application deadline: 10 June 2012

Interviews to start: week commencing 18 June 2012

To apply please send your CV, cover letter and portfolio to: S.L.Gavin@kent.ac.uk

Please indicate which role you are applying for in the 'Subject' title of the email to ensure your application is processed in the most appropriate way.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive guide to publications in music from all over the world, from Hildegard to hip hop, from ethnomusicology to music therapy. It covers articles, books, catalogues, dissertations and other publications from 1967 to the present.

To access resources available on trial and to give feedback, visit: www.kent.ac.uk/library/resources/e-resources/trial

If you are a student at the University of kent, we would like to invite you to complete this short survey:

• https://survey.kent.ac.uk/ebooks_survey_2012

You can enter a prize draw to win a £50 Blackwells voucher (which can be used online or in one of their shops) by leaving your Kent login details at the end of the survey.

KAR is the University of Kent’s Open Access (OA) repository of research outputs, a publicly accessible shop window for disseminating the quality research activity undertaken by Kent academic staff and researchers.

It has undergone a substantial programme of redesign and roadtesting based on feedback, so that the 2012 model now offers a sleeker, more efficient experience. A rolling programme of further enhancements will add more functionality and additional improvements.  A KAR User Group, with academic and administrative representation from each Faculty, has direct input into the evolution of KAR. Individuals can also submit improvements requests using the feedback mechanisms within KAR.

Who is the workshop for?

The workshop is aimed at:

• all academic staff and researchers across the University
• Directors of Research and REF Co-ordinators
• administrative staff who collate and manage details of research outputs for their School

Workshop content:

• KAR steering lesson – a quick orientation
• importing records from other sources (the quick and easy way…)
• uploading the post-refereed, preprint document
• quality: making sure you have set the correct item type and filled in the required fields
• depositing: final upload of the record and preprint document to KAR
• using KAR to promote your research
• KAR and the REF
• KAR breakdown cover

Workshop details:

Venue:

• Templeman Library, Training Room TR301 (Level 3 East)

Workshop dates:

• Thursday 17 May 2-4pm
• Thursday 21 June 2-4pm
• Thursday 19 July 2-4pm
• Thursday 16 August 2-4pm

Each workshop is restricted to twelve places. Please email sla-contact@kent.ac.uk to book a place on your preferred workshop.

Please bring with you:

• details of records you wish to load into KAR (if you are involved in the REF, then you could bring details of your REF submissible documents)
• if possible, full-text preprint files for each record you wish to upload

Why use KAR?

• to meet funders requirements for OA deposit of research outputs
• to exploit the potential of OA for increasing the impact of research (in the lead up to the REF, and beyond)
• to make details (and full-text) of research more visible and accessible
• to promote individual, group of School level research activity to a wider audience
• as a system to collate, store and manage details of research outputs for the School

More information:

Fulfil funder mandates for open access publishing of research outputs:

Most funding bodies (eg all RCUK members) now require open access deposit of research outputs funded via their grants. (See JULIET for further information about funder requirements).  

Most commercial journal publishers allow authors the right to self-deposit post-refereed, preprint versions of manuscripts in an open access repository (see SHERPA/ROMEO for details of what your publisher will allow).

• Depositing post-refereed, preprint versions of your manuscripts in KAR meets funder requirements, and gives you the flexibility to publish in a source of your choice, without being restricted to open access titles which charge author fees

Exploit potential benefits for increasing the impact of your research: 

There is evidence that having a visible version of your work, freely available as full-text under open access, contributes to greater awareness and can lead to a higher number of citations.  Search engines (e.g. GoogleScholar, etc.) rank entries from repositories higher on results pages than they rank individual web pages.

• GoogleScholar journal ranking rates three OA repositories in the top ten
• KAR records are likely to receive more click-throughs from internet search results than publication details pasted into individual web pages

Make details of your research outputs more visible and accessible: 

The repository (unlike a subscription journal or database) is free to search.  KAR can index a wide range of publication types (books, chapters, reports/working papers, conference papers, book reviews), many academic databases are restricted to just one of two (e.g. articles). Data from KAR is automatically harvested by search engines (e.g. Google, Bing, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, etc.).

• Key bibliographic subscription databases (like Web of Knowledge or SCOPUS) may only index up to 50% of UoK research outputs (depending on discipline and publication type)
• Details of your research can be readily found on the wider web if indexed in KAR
• No subscription barrier is placed in the way of other researchers finding and reading your work

KAR can be used to prepare records of research output for REF submission: 

We are testing a REF2014 plugin with KAR that allows the overlaying of additional REF essential data onto KAR records.  The plugin allows the Research Office to “squirt” REF ready submission packages out of KAR for UoA panels.

Use KAR to help promote individual, group, or School level research outputs: 

The web snippet enables a feed of KAR records into individual, group or School web pages, meaning your publication list is updated when new records are added to KAR.

If you have borrowed a DVD during this period we would like to invite you to complete this very short survey:

https://survey.kent.ac.uk/dvd_pilot_2012 
 
You can enter a prize draw to win a £20 gift token by leaving your Kent log in details at the end of the survey.

Full access to these titles will become available later in the year as part of a pilot to enable students to suggest e-books for purchase.

In the meantime if you view any items in the Library catalogue with the location  'Electronic Book (preview only)' which are essential to your study or research please email your academic liaison librarian with the item details and the reasons for your recommendation (including your School, stage and module code if related to your course) and they will consider the item for purchase.

Contact details for your academic liaison librarian:
www.kent.ac.uk/library/templeman/contacts/subject.html

Please:

• choose your study zone according to your needs (silent, quiet or social)
• respect others’ needs for silent or quiet study, and be aware that headphones can leak noise
• use student PCs only for academic work at busy times
• bin your litter
• have food in the social learning zone only – drinks in screw-top bottles are allowed elsewhere

If you are being disturbed in a silent study zone, email library-report@kent.ac.uk and a member of staff will come and check it out.

Have your say about Information Services at Kent:
www.kent.ac.uk/is/feedback/feedback.html

The app features:

• Access to Uni essentials in one place – course timetables, PC availability, travel info and SMS alerts.
• Links to useful info - department A-Z, twitter directory of academic schools, support services and experts at Kent.
• Medway info – includes info for the Medway campus.
• Web browser access – no app store download needed.
• Automatic updates – no need to upgrade to the latest version.
• Compatibility – works well on the majority of devices used at Kent.

The app was developed to work on as many devices as possible, and driven by the needs of Kent students.  In 2010/11 the mobile survey and follow-up focus groups revealed that students mostly wanted to be able to access timetables and check PC availability on their phones, and that they wanted to find information without trawling websites or seeking out the relevant department.

Feedback on the app is welcomed, as improvements and additions will be made on an on-going basis. Current plans for further development include:

• Time management tools e.g. View My Deadlines, Marks Alert.
• Room finder.
• Mobile-friendly web pages across the main web site.

To submit your feedback, use the yellow bubble icon on the app.

Library service desks are open 9am-9pm on weekdays and 12noon-6pm at weekends and on bank holidays, including Good Friday through Easter Monday.

View the full Templeman Library opening hours at: www.kent.ac.uk/library/templeman/opening.html