Problem with some links on LibrarySearch resolved

We are pleased to report that the problems with some links on LibrarySearch that were reported at the end of last week have now been resolved.

We apologise for the inconvenience this caused and if you have any further problems please contact library@rgu.ac.uk.

Problem with some links on LibrarySearch

We are sorry to report that we are currently experiencing problems with some links on LibrarySearch.

It has been reported that if you try to link to any articles or journals from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) then you will get an error message saying “Some error occurred while retrieving services”.

This has been reported and the support team hope to get a fix in place as soon as possible and we apologise for the inconvenience this is causing.

While this is being investigated RCN resources can be accessed from the RCNi Journals link on the Database A-Z list.

Trial access to DETAIL Inspiration

DETAIL inspiration is an online database for architects and construction engineers.

Over 3,600 projects from over 30 years of DETAIL magazine are available in the database with new projects added monthly.

We are pleased to announce that we have trial access to the 7th August.

You can access the database by following this link.

And you can always find the link, and lots of other resources here: Temporary access to additional online resources.

Local Holiday Weekend 10th – 13th July

Library staff will be taking a break over the Aberdeen local holiday weekend Friday 10th July – Monday 13th July inclusive.

However, all online services – ebooks, databases, Refworks etc. – will still be available as usual via the library webpages. If you have any enquiries over the weekend email us at library@rgu.ac.uk and we will reply on Tuesday 14th July.

Most Library services will be available as normal over the summer period but please get in touch if there’s anything the team can help with.

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.42 – June 2020)

Welcome to the latest update on RGU’s open access institutional repository, OpenAIR. If you have any suggestions for things that you would like to see in these monthly updates, or if you have any questions about the repository service, please get in touch with the Publications Team.

News

We hope that everyone is staying home, staying safe and staying well during the pandemic. We have suspended our training sessions on the use of Worktribe until access to campus facilities has been restored. All other repository services are operating as usual, though we apologise for any additional delays while the Publications Team do our best to work from home.

Content

OpenAIR currently contains 3890 outputs. Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/903581 = OKE, A., LADAS, J. and BAILEY, M. [2020]. Ethical consumers: an exploratory investigation of the ethical food consumption behaviour of young adults in the North East of Scotland. British Food Journal [online], EarlyCite. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-10-2019-0801

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/923989 = MARTZOUKOU, K., FULTON, C., KOSTAGIOLAS, P. and LAVRANOS, C. [2020]. A study of higher education students’ self-perceived digital competences for learning and everyday life online participation. Journal of Documentation [online], (accepted). Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2020-0041

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/929923 = ARNELL, P. [2020]. The legality of the citizenship deprivation of UK foreign terrorist fighters. ERA-Forum [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-020-00615-9

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/930195 = HARMS SMITH, L. and RASOOL, S. 2020. Deep transformation toward decoloniality in social work: themes for change in a social work higher education program. Journal of Progressive Human Services [online], 31(2), pages 144-164. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2020.1762295

Each School is currently linked to the following number of outputs on OpenAIR:

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Aberdeen Business School – 573
Gray’s School of Art – 254
Law School – 174
School of Applied Social Studies – 144
School of Computing and Digital Media – 516
School of Creative and Cultural Business – 461
School of Engineering – 572
School of Health Sciences – 175
School of Nursing and Midwifery – 281
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences – 613
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment – 271
Other departments – 19

Downloads

Last month, in May, there were a total of 3338 downloads from OpenAIR. The most-downloaded items were:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/311066 = GUPTA, R., PANCHOLI, K., DE SA, R., MURRAY, D., HUO, D., DROUBI, G., WHITE, M. and NJUGUNA, J. 2019. Effect of oleic acid coating of iron oxide nanoparticles on properties of magnetic polyamide-6 nanocomposite. JOM [online], 71(9), pages 3119-3128. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-019-03622-5

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/248273 = SSENDI, L.B. 2013. Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women’s micro businesses. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/346544 = SETKUTE, J. 2018. In search of digital marketing communications success: the case of oil and gas industry B2B SMEs. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis.

The above data were gathered on 29.06.2020.