Reminder re Faculty of Natural Sciences Open Access drop-in session

A quick reminder that there is a drop-in session happening on Monday 17 September, between 9.30am and 12.30pm in the Central Library, to enable academics to get 1:1 help with uploading publications to Spiral as well as get help with other aspects of the Symplectic publications system.

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Library staff will be on hand to help you out (and answer any questions you might have).

For further information, see the Faculty of Natural Sciences new item: Open Access Drop In Session.

SPIE now offering Gold open access programme

“SPIE has announced a new program that provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary page charges, beginning in January 2013. Authors will retain copyright under the Creative Commons CC-BY license.

The new program covers articles in the SPIE journals:

*   Optical Engineering

*   Journal of Biomedical Optics

*   Journal of Electronic Imaging; co-published with IS&T

*   Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS

*   Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

*   Journal of Nanophotonics

*   Journal of Photonics for Energy.”

From: SPIE launches new open access program for all journals (for further information go to this press release).

Spiral top twenty downloads for June 2012

The list of the top 20 downloads from Spiral for June 2012 is now available to view on the Library website.

Spiral, the Digital Repository for research output of Imperial College London, aims to:

• increase the visibility of the College’s research publications
• allow free and open access to all material added to it, and
• provide links to academics’ professional web pages

To find out more about Spiral, click here.

Imperial open access publication fund

Imperial’s open access (OA) publication fund exists to support researchers who would like to publish their research in open access publications. The fund is open to academic and postdoctoral staff employed at Imperial College London and will pay for open access publication costs for journal articles in open access journals or subscription journals that offer an open access option (hybrid journals).

For further information, see the Library’s Imperial open access publication fund web pages or email Jenny.

Spiral top twenty downloads for March 2012

The list of the top 20 downloads from Spiral for March 2012 is now available to view on the Library website.

Spiral, the Digital Repository for research output of Imperial College London, aims to:

• increase the visibility of the College’s research publications
• allow free and open access to all material added to it, and
• provide links to academics’ professional web pages

To find out more about Spiral, click here.

Spiral top twenty downloads for September 2011

The list of the top 20 downloads from Spiral for September 2011 is now available to view on the Library website.

Spiral, the Digital Repository for research output of Imperial College London, aims to:

• increase the visibility of the College’s research publications
• allow free and open access to all material added to it, and
• provide links to academics’ professional web pages

To find out more about Spiral, click here.

Spiral top twenty downloads for August 2011

The list of the top 20 downloads from Spiral for August 2011 is now available to view on the Library website.

Spiral, the Digital Repository for research output of Imperial College London, aims to:

• increase the visibility of the College’s research publications
• allow free and open access to all material added to it, and
• provide links to academics’ professional web pages

To find out more about Spiral, click here.

Researcher web pages now live

We now have a web page dedicated to aggregating information to support researchers across College. Information found on these pages includes:

• Finding information
• The publication process
• IPR and copyright
• Plagiarism awareness
• Reference management
• Training and resources

See http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/library/researchers for further information.

If you have any feedback on how these pages may be made more useful to you, please do let us know!

Spiral top twenty downloads for June 2011

The list of the top 20 downloads from Spiral for June 2011 is now available to view on the Library website.

Spiral, the Digital Repository for research output of Imperial College London, aims to:

• increase the visibility of the College’s research publications
• allow free and open access to all material added to it, and
• provide links to academics’ professional web pages

To find out more about Spiral, click here.

Spiral top twenty downloads for April 2011

The list of the top 20 downloads from Spiral for April 2011 is now available to view on the Library website.

Spiral, the Digital Repository for research output of Imperial College London, aims to:

• increase the visibility of the College’s research publications
• allow free and open access to all material added to it, and
• provide links to academics’ professional web pages

To find out more about Spiral, click here.