After finishing a research project it seems to be useful, to keep such data. They serve as reference for own publications and can be used in other projects. More and more information institutions think about the effective publication and use of research data. Similar to journal articles yet today research data can get so-called DOIs, Digital Object Identifier, to enable easily citing and linking.

More on research data offers the Information Portal “Research Data Infrastructures”, e.g. a German “Handbuch Forschungsdatenmanagement” from 2011, or the data management website by the MIT libraries.

The picture above, made with the service Wordle is an example for the re-utilization of research data published with a Creative Commens-License BY-NC-SA 3.0. The content of the above mentioned “Handbuch Forschungsdatenmanagement”, in a way research data from the type “text”, has been used for a visual presentation of the words “arranged” according their statistical occurrence in the text. 8-).

The OA Policy of the TUHH includes as elements of the OA strategy the offering of services to support publishing thorugh the university library as well as the provision of the Institutional Repository of the TUHH, the document server TUBdok for self-archiving pre- and postprints of documents.

In addition starting April 1, 2013, a fund is available for the support of publications in Open Access journals which is financed for three years from the library budget.

Publishing with open access increases the visibility of your research and of the Hamburg University of Technology!

For special retrieval of OA publications the search engine OAISTER and the other one provided by the uinversity library of Bielefeld called BASE is available. BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the largest seach engines world-wide to look for scholarly content available via Open Access.

What’s new:

Add-In for Microsoft Word for inserting citations and quotations:

Insert your references in Word exactly as prescribed by your selected citation style. The bibliography is updated in real time with each added or deleted citation. Microsoft Word for Windows versions 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 365 are supported (including the 64-bit versions).

OpenOffice and the following LaTeX editors can still use the Publication Assistant: LEd, LyX, TexMaker, TeXnicCenter, TeXWorks, WinEdt, WinShell, WinTeX.

Picker for Google Chrome:

Automatically add books by ISBN number and articles by DOI address to your project. Add webpages as well as text and images. This has been available for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Now you can use Google Chrome as well.

More:

Find out more about Citavi 4 at citavi.com an get the Download. Your license key is valid for both: Citavi 3 and Citavi 4.

Please note: Citavi 4 is not compatible with Windows XP.

Freely available articles deal with challenges concerning

• the costs of subscription-based as well as Open Access publishing
• the role of libraries when supporting publishing and the preservation and archiving of digital data
• the quality of Open Access publishers
• the issue of evaluating scholarly publications using alternatives to classical peer review, to the impact factor of journals or the Hirsch index of authors in the form of “Altmetrics” annd other methods determining the impact of publications
• the use of free licences like Creative Commens licences for publications
• the future development of the Open Access movement

Further information on our website:

http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/find/standards/

Mendeley has been a rather popular reference mangament tool combined with a web-based social network. According to their post, only little will change for their users. As a bonus storage space will be increased. The free version of Mendeley is to be continued.

The Mendeley team realizes, that they will encounter critical reactions in the academic community for their decision :

Of course, we are aware that – especially in the past year – the academic community has criticized Elsevier for some of its policies and positions. Our own relationship with Elsevier has been conflicted at times.

From their point of view however, the assets have been in favor of joining the publisher:

In sum, the overlap between Elsevier’s and our vision has always been remarkable. Combining Elsevier’s content, analytics tools, and long-standing publisher/society relationships with Mendeley’s collaboration platform and social data will enable both of us to develop amazing new services that will make your research life easier.

Starting recently the database Inspec produced by the British Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is offered within the TUHH intranet within the interface from the Web of Knowledge.

Beneath its role as primary database for subjects like electrical engineering, computer sciences and physics Inspec is also an important interdisziplinary database for topics as modeling, simulation as well as computer applications.