Student Ambassador Vacancies

The University Library is recruiting a small team of Student Ambassadors to help with the day-to-day activities in the Library, the Georgina Scott Suth­erland Learning Centre and to assist in ongoing engagement with students.

Ambassadors will be expected to work for around four hours each week, at an hourly rate of £9.00. If you are interested in joining the Library team as a Student Ambassador, please email your CV to gsslearningcentre@rgu.ac.uk together with a short covering letter (approx. 200 words) outlining why you think you would be suitable for the role by midnight on Friday 30th August.

To find out more click here

Trial access to Global Digimap now finished

The trial access to Global Digimap reported here has now come to an end.

If you have any feedback about the trial please get in touch at libresources@rgu.ac.uk.

New OpenAIR@RGU repository launched today

We are pleased and excited to announce that today sees the launch of our new OpenAIR@RGU repository of RGU research outputs, which is now part of the Worktribe research information system. All the content from the old repository platform has been migrated over, and there will be additional features such as Profiles for researchers, projects etc. which will be built up over time. The new repository will benefit greatly by being integrated with the wider Worktribe research information system at RGU, making it much easier to share our research outputs with the world.

If you have any comments or queries regarding the new repository please contact the Library Publications team at publications@rgu.ac.uk

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.31 – July 2019)

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

Service Updates

The Publications Team have finished migrating our internal records to the Worktribe research information system and are now focusing on tidying these before we begin rolling out training for researchers on how to use the new system. Meanwhile, we are continuing to work on migrating our repository records to Worktribe as well. We apologise for any inconvenience caused during this transition period and we will continue to keep you updated of our progress. If you have any questions, please contact the Publications Team.

Content

The repository currently contains 3,465 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/10059/3551 = SEDDIKI, M. and BENNADJI, A. 2018. Barrières à l’utilisation des méthodes d’aide à la décision murltcirétres dans le secteur de la construction en Algérie. Presented at the Colloque international sur les villes intelligentes (CIVIC 2018), 6-8 November 2018, Constantine, Algeria. Constantine: Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, University Salah Boubnider [online]. Available from: https://ruralm.hypotheses.org/files/2018/04/colloque_18_3_.pdf

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/3554 = SIDDIQUE, S., YATES, K. and NJUGUNA, J. 2018. Characterisation of oil based mud waste to explore the possibility in transforming waste into a value added product. Presented at the 6th International conference on sustainable solid waste management (NAXOS 2018), 13-16 June 2018, Naxos, Greece. Athens: National Technical University of Athens [online], paper number 45. Available from: http://uest.ntua.gr/naxos2018/proceedings/pdf/45_NAXOS2018_Siddique_etal.pdf

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/3555 = BOJADZIJA SAVIC, G., EDWARDS, C., BRIAND, E., LAWTON, L., WIEGAND, C. and BORMANS, M. 2019. Daphnia magna exudates impact physiological and metabolic changes in microcystis aeruginosa. Toxins [online], 11(7), article ID 421. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins11070421

Each School currently has the following number of records on OpenAIR:

Downloads

This month, there have been a total of 13,064 downloads from OpenAIR. The most downloaded items include:

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/921 = LAING, R. and SCOTT, J. 2011. Remnants of Scottish stone architecture in Nova Scotia. International journal of heritage studies [online], 17(5), pages 478-496. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2011.583669.  (442 downloads)

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1937 = ANDERSON, C. 2017. Delivery of goods in the custody of a third party: the role of the custodier. Edinburgh law review [online], 21(2), pages 143-168. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2017.0408  (427 downloads)

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/182 = TOURISH, D. and ROBSON, P. 2006. Sensemaking and distortion of critical upward communication in organizations. Journal of Management Studies [online], 43(4), pages 711-730. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00608.x  (371 downloads)

The most downloaded theses this month include:

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/234 = CONNON, N.G. 2007. Factors impacting on technology acceptance for the micro/SME electronics retailer. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. (212 downloads)

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/792  = ROBERTSON, D.M. 2012. Critical thinking and clinical reasoning in new graduate occupational therapists: a phenomenological study. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. (211 downloads)

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2403 = CLEVERLEY, P.H. 2017. Re-examining and re-conceptualising enterprise search and discovery capability: towards a model for the factors and generative mechanisms for search task outcomes. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. (200 downloads)

The above data were correct at the time of writing (30.07.2019).

New email address for reading lists and digitisation queries

We are pleased to announce that there is now a new email address for the library’s reading lists and digitisation team.

So if you have any requests or queries about reading lists and digitisations please contact:

readinglists@rgu.ac.uk