Downtime for Proquest resources including RefWorks.

ProQuest will be undertaking maintenance of some of their products, including RefWorks, this weekend. 

Access to our eBooks supplied by ProQuest will not be available for approximately 5 hours:

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In addition, access to the following resources will not be available for approximately 8 hours:

RefWorks, Art and Architecture Archive, British Periodicals, Country Life Archive‎, Design and Applied Arts Index, ERIC, International Newsstand, Periodicals Archives Online, PILOTS, Vogue Archive and Womens Wear Daily Archive

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We apologise for any inconvenience.

Taylor & Francis Online technical problems resolved

We are pleased to inform you that the technical problems experienced on the Taylor & Francis Online platform reported last week have been resolved.  Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience, and if you have futher questions please get in touch at library@rgu.ac.uk

 

Taylor & Francis Online technical problems

The Taylor & Francis Online platform is currently experiencing technical problems.  If using this platform, following a link to an article may result in an error saying “There appears to be a problem with the page you are looking for. Either the content has moved, or the URL is incorrect. Please check the URL, or try again.”

We have reported the issue to Taylor & Francis and will update again once we know more.  Apologies for the inconvenience meantime.

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.19 – July 2018)

Welcome to the nineteenth monthly update on OpenAIR@RGU– RGU’s open access institutional repository. Please direct any queries to the team at publications@rgu.ac.uk.

Content

The repository currently contains 2,881 links between Schools and outputs (some records are linked to multiple Schools and therefore included in this figure more than once). Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following outputs:

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/3028 = KYDD, A., FLEMING, A., GARDNER, S and HAFFORD-LETCHFIELD, T. 2018. Ageism in the third age. In Ayalon, L. and Tesch-Römer, C. (eds.) Contemporary perspectives on ageism. International perspectives on aging, 19. Cham: Springer [online], chapter 8, pages 115-130. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73820-8_8.

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/3027 = AMEER, L., MACLURE, K., TONNA, A. and STEWART, D. 2018. An initial exploration of the perceptions of preparedness to practise among Saudi Arabian trained hospital pharmacists. Pharmacy practice [online], 16(2), article 1192. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18549/PharmPract.2018.02.1192.

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/3026 = HASSAN, O.A.G. [2018]. The impact of voluntary environmental disclosure on firm value: does organizational visibility play a mediation role? Business strategy and the environment [online], (accepted).

Each School currently has the following number of records on OpenAIR (research data is in a separate diagram):

Downloads

This month, there have been a total of 7,793 downloads from OpenAIR. The most downloaded items include:

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1015 = YOUNG, W., HWANG, K., MCDONALD, S. and OATES, C.J. 2010. Sustainable consumption: green consumer behaviour when purchasing products. Sustainable Development [online], 18(1), pages 20-31. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sd.394. (371 downloads)

 

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1435 = MABON, L. and KAWABE, M. 2016. Engagement on risk and uncertainty – lessons from coastal regions of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan after the 2011 nuclear disaster? Journal of Risk Research [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2016.1200658. (226 downloads)

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1525 = CROWTHER, S., IRONSIDE, P., SPENCE, D. and SMYTHE, L. 2017. Crafting stories in hermeneutic phenomenology research: a methodological device. Qualitative Health Research [online], 27(6), pages 826-835. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732316656161. (117 downloads)

The most downloaded theses this month include:

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1450 = PRICE, J.F.R. 2016. The discourse of cultural leadership. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. (203 downloads)

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/373 = TAYLOR, R.F. 2009. Creating connections: an investigation into the first year experience of undergraduate nursing students. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. (149 downloads)

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/809 = SSENDI, L.B. 2013. Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women’s micro businesses. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. (96 downloads)

The above data were correct at the time of writing (27.07.2018).

Problems accessing OnePetro fixed

We are pleased to report that the problems accessing OnePetro reported earlier today have now been fixed and it can now be accessed as usual from our database list.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused and please get in touch at library@rgu.ac.uk if you have any queries.