http://www.writenow.ac.uk/QRSS/

“This journal presents a valuable opportunity for undergraduates and postgraduates to write mentored publications of their research activities in the sports world. The papers are externally reviewed by academics from other institutions/other subject areas who share a similar vision for encouraging student confidence in their academic writing and encouraging greater involvement with researching sport from a qualitative standpoint.” I’ve communicated with the editor, Dr Clive Palmer, who says that he would welcome contributions from students at other institutions – and suggests: “Please note the qualitative format and content of the articles included so far, and mentored writing - there are also short biographies (of the student in the mentored partnership) in the form of acknowledgement footnotes at the end of each article which may be helpful”.

“EDINA is running a trial programme of short online workshops using web conferencing software. Sessions are free and open to staff in UK further and higher education institutions. Booking is now open for Digimap Collection courses in April … Further details and booking forms for these workshops (as well as other EDINA events and workshops) can be found on the EDINA website.
Each 45 minute online workshop will typically consist of a demonstration of an aspect of an EDINA service by a member of EDINA’s User Support team, with the opportunity for questions. Numbers are limited to 12 per session. If you would like to check if your computer set-up allows you to take part, please go to this page. [Source: email from EDINA Helpdesk, 20-03-09]

http://victory.rusarchives.ru/

“A searchable online archive of over one thousand photographs from the second world war, selected from numerous federal and regional Russian archives and presented as high-quality digitised images. The archive can be browsed thematically or searched by keyword or photograph details: date or place taken; photographer; archive number. Although there is no English-language version, the site is well constructed and easy to use, and offers a valuable resource for historians teaching and researching the second world war.” [Source: Intute: Arts & Humanities, 13-03-09]

http://cinephile.ca/

A peer-reviewed Open Access journal offering themed issues on various aspects of film. Past issues have included ‘Alternative World Cinema’; ‘Post-Genre’; ‘Hollywood & Liberalism’; ‘Theology and the Political’; and ‘Gender and Violence’. A call for papers for inclusion in Volume 5, No 2, ‘The Scene’, has been issued. [Source: Intute: Arts & Humanities, 22-03-09]

http://www.wooster.edu/beatstudies/reviews/

Peer-reviewed Open Access journal based at the College of Wooster and publishing reviews of books about the work of the Beat writers (Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc). The current issues includes reviews of And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks; Poetry as Insurgent Art; Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They’re Not What You Think); and The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television. [Source: The Scout Report, 20-03-09]

http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/greeneandgreene/

“More than 4,000 images of works by architects and designers Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene, who ‘are widely considered to have brought high-art aesthetics and exquisite craftsmanship to the American Arts and Crafts Movement in the early part of the 20th century’ and who did much of their work in southern California. Includes a biography, image database, and links to related material. Hosted by the University of Southern California (USC).” Source: Librarians’ Index to the Internet, 05-03-09]

http://webapps01.un.org/vawdatabase/home.action

“The first global ‘one-stop shop’ for information on measures undertaken by Member States to address violence against women in terms of legal, policy and institutional frameworks. It contains information on services for victims and survivors. You will also find relevant data on capacity-building and awareness-raising activities for public officials. It also provides data on the prevalence of violence and the criminal justice sector response to it. In this database, everyone will have access to an extensive global body of information on violence against women.” [Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog, 20-03-09]

http://marketingwhitepapers.s3.amazonaws.com/smss09/SocialMediaMarketingIndustryReport.pdf

Released in March 2009, this survey of approximately 900 marketers found that most marketers are new users of social media and that “a significant 64% of marketers are using social media for 5 hours or more each week and 39% for 10 or more hours weekly … The number-one advantage is generating exposure for the business, indicated 81% of all marketers, followed by increasing traffic and building new business partnerships … Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn and Facebook were the top four social media tools used by marketers, in that order”. [Source: iLibrarian, 24-03-09]

Academic OneFile (AOF) is produced by the same company that provides MMU with the popular Expanded Academic ASAP full-text journals service. AOF includes all of the content of Expanded Academic and more … for example, key newspaper titles such as the Financial Times and the New York Times. We’ve organized a trial of Academic OneFile in order to find out which of the two services you prefer. Please ask at any MMU library enquiry desk for the trial’s web address and password. The trial ends on 16th April and feedback should be sent to our trials manager, David Jenkins: d.jenkins@mmu.ac.uk

If you’ve had a recent grant from one of the UK Research Councils, you may have spotted the requirement to deposit the full text of any articles or conference papers resulting from the research funded by the grant in an e-print repository, subject to compliance with publishers’ and copyright policies. At MMU, this is a very easy thing to do. All you need to do is to send an electronic copy of your final peer-reviewed article (ie, the final version that you submitted to the publisher) to our institutional repository team and they’ll do the rest. They will check the publisher’s policies and, where the publishers agree, will add your article to e-space, MMU’s Open Access repository. This should result in higher visibility as your article will be discoverable by users of search engines such as Google Scholar, OAIster and Intute Repository Search. And higher visibility should lead to more citations. More information on the requirements of the UK Research Councils is available online.

To contact MMU Library’s institutional repository team, please send an email to
e-space@mmu.ac.uk And for a look at e-space, see our website.