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Information about home office due to the corona situation

Like the rest of NTNU, the employees of the University Library are currently also working from home due to the corona situation.

If you have questions, suggestions for literature you think the library should buy, or in general – if you need help from the library, it is easiest to contact us by mail:

Email address to the Technology Library: tekhb@ub.ntnu.no
Email address to the Architecture and Civil Engineering Library: arkbib@ub.ntnu.no
Email address to the Marine Technology Library: marinbib@ub.ntnu.no
Email address to the Library in Ålesund: alesund@ub.ntnu.no

Subject related questions / purchase suggestions can be addressed to:

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Colwiz-add-on a new reference manager for Google docs

Does you and your co-authors using google docs to cooperate on an article? Do you miss a reference manager that works seamlessly with google docs?

You can try the colwiz add-on for google docs for handling references in google docs. The add-on is well integrated with google docs.  In 2016 Colwiz enabled Chrome user to add citations to google docs. Now Colwiz has created an add-on which you can use with any browser.

Download:

You can download the colwiz add-on here: https://tinyurl.com/y9jrkm99

 

What can you do with the Colwiz add-on?

  • You can search Internet for articles and make a reference
  • You can create your own library of references
  • Insert reference in text with google docs
  • Autogenerate a reference list at the end of the text.
  • Choose from over 7000 reference styles.
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Open Access Research UBedu UBrss

Earth and Space Science Open Archive.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Atypon (software development company) have announced that the Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr) is fully functioning in a beta version.

Researchers can submit their preprints and posters that will be archived, discoverable and citable (with DOI).

ESSOAr offers researchers to sign in with their ORCID credentials and an user friendly drag and drop functionality.

We have previously described how to create a research profile with ORCID in this blog https://www.ntnu.no/blogger/ub-teknologi/en/2017/04/25/create-your-researcher-profile-and-make-your-research-more-visible/.

ESSOAr will give researchers the possibility to receive peer feedback and be able to improve the final output of their publications.

All content in ESSOAr will be freely available.

ESSOAr

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Reference management UBedu UBrss Ukategorisert

Zotero 5.0 Standalone application

Zotero

Zotero is a reference management tool you can download and use for free. You can collect, cite, organize and share your references.
We have previously described Zotero 4.0 for Firefox and Zotero Standalone in this blog: https://www.ntnu.no/blogger/ub-teknologi/2017/03/13/zotero/
Since then, Zotero has released a major update in Zotero 5.0 Standalone application in July 2017.

 

What does the updated tool contain?
Zotero 5.0 is a Zotero Standalone application that can be used with all browsers. In addition, you have to download connectors, depending on which browser you are using. There are connectors for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. The download is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

 

How can you update the Zotero tool?
If you are using Zotero 4.0 for Firefox, you download the Firefox connector first. You will get the same “Save to Zotero” button in the Firefox toolbar.
Then you download the Zotero 5.0 Standalone application to access your library. Finally, you sync your library with zotero.org.
The functionality of the Zotero 5.0 Standalone application is the same as described for Zotero 4.0 for Firefox.

 

 

 

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Events Open Access Research

2017 International Open Access Week

Open Access Week is an annual, community-driven event focusing on open access and related topics. It takes place globally during the last full week of October. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions and organizations across the world. Typical activities include talks, seminars, symposia, or the announcement of open access mandates or other milestones in open access. This year it will be the 10th International Open Access Week, and it will be held  23 – 29 October 2017.  Since 2012, an ‘official’ theme was established, and this year it is called “Open in order to…”.

This theme is an invitation to answer the question of what concrete benefits can be realised by making scholarly outputs openly available. “Open in order to…” serves as a prompt to move beyond talking about openness in itself and focus on what openness enables—in an individual discipline, at a particular institution, or in a specific context; then to take action to realise these benefits. A few examples how to answer this question: Open in order to increase the impact of my scholarship. Open in order to enable more equitable participation in research. Open in order to improve public health. For more information about International Open Access Week, please visit www.openaccessweek.org.

At NTNU, there will be a number of talks on the importance of Open Access to science and research during this week. Researchers talk about their own experiences with publishing Open Access, others focus on NTNUs policy and goals for Open Access, and what the status is today. NTNU University Library offers an “Open Office” in a number of their locations. You can drop in to discuss what you yourself need to do to meet requirements from NTNU or your funders for making your publications openly available.

Programme for the Open Access Week at NTNU

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Academic Writing Night on the 4th of October 2017

Do you struggle with your academic writing? Is it difficult to find good literature/information sources? Are your references a bit of a mess?

Then the academic writing night on the 4th of October at Gløshaugen could be the right solution for you.

You can come and go as you please, and you can either write on your own or get help from learning assistants and professionals. You can participate in individual guidance, workshops and lectures on academic writing, literature search, reference management, motivation & study techniques.

This academic writing night is an offer to all students at NTNU. You can benefit from the evening regardless of how far you have come in your studies. Bring the text you want to work on and any relevant literature you might have.

You are welcome between 3pm and 9pm at U1 at the Natural Science Building and it would be great if you would register for the evening in advance (but it’s not necessary in order to participate): http://www.kurspaamelding.no/ntnu-ub/index.php?kursid=148&dato=363&paamelding=ja&groupid=171

 

 

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Databases

Alerts – information about topics or authors of interest

Through the Library you have access to databases (Web of Science; SCOPUS; Compendex) in which you can create alerts to ensure that you get information about topics or authors of interest. These alerts will notify you by email and can be specified to track the following:

  • new papers published by a specific author or new papers on a specific topic
  • to learn when a specific paper has been cited by new papers added to the database
  • to receive table of contents of new journal issues

To learn how to create citation alerts review the Web of Science – Citation Alerts tutorial.
To learn how to save searches and create search alerts review the Web of Science – Saving your search and setting alerts tutorial.

 

 

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Research Researcher profiles UBedu UBrss

Create your researcher profile and make your research more visible

Why is it important to have a good online presence as a researcher?

By creating a researcher profile, you will be able:

  • To promote your research and teaching activities
  • To improve your chance of being cited
  • To ensure correct attribution
  • To guarantee credit in research assessments
  • To find new collaborators
  • To find new funding sources

In this way you will make your research more visible and optimise the impact of your research.

How do you make your research more visible to other researchers? Five tips on what you should do in detail:

  1. Build your NTNU Staff Profile and add your
  • Research priority areas
  • Teaching
  • AwardsBilderesultat for orcid
  • Supervision
  • Social media profiles
  1. Build your ORCiD Profile

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognised. ORCID iDs can only be assigned by the ORCID Registry at https://orcid.org.

  1. Create additional researcher profiles and establish a
  1. Use networking tools and connect with other researchers via:
  1. Use social media

Boost your career with social media. If you are new, follow a successful researcher. Promote your work and the work of your colleagues by using:

  • Twitter – the most popular micro-blogging tool
  • YouTube – the most commonly used video platform
  • Blogging – create interest in your work

Overview over the key tools

  • University profiles: NTNU staff profiles
  • Author disambiguation: ORCID, ResearcherID
  • Search engines: Google Scholar, Scopus
  • Social media: Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs
  • Communities: Academia.edu, ResearchGate
  • Reference sharing: Mendeley

The web site https://www.piirus.ac.uk/ has developed a so-called “Digital Identity Health Check for Academics”. Among others, this document includes “Ten simple tips to improve the visibility of you and your research”.

Here you have the recommended strategies:

  1. Create profiles on sites that rank highly in search results
  2. Manage your name by getting an ORCiD identifier
  3. Make your web addresses easy to find
  4. Create a single home for your online presence
  5. Link your online profiles together
  6. Write guest posts on other people’s blogs to gain more visibility
  7. Decide if you will have a personal and/or professional digital presence
  8. Use appropriate images online
  9. Maximise the potential of your profile biographies to make better connections
  10. Measure your research impact online

Here you will find the whole document: https://www.piirus.ac.uk/resources/documents/digital-identity-health-check-for-academics.pdf

 

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Reference management UBedu UBrss

Zotero – Reference management tool

Zotero

 

What is Zotero?

Zotero is a reference management tool and it’s an open-source program that is free to download and use.
This program was developed as a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and was initially funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Zotero collects, manages and cites sources in a similar way as EndNote and RefWorks. It works with Windows, Mac or Linux systems

 

Download

You can download Zotero from www.zotero.org as:

  • Zotero for Firefox: Zotero as an extension to Firefox. Here you have to use the Firefox browser.
  • Zotero Standalone: If you don’t use Firefox as your browser, you can download Zotero Standalone. Zotero Standalone is a separate, browser-independent application. For Zotero to work properly you need to install connectors. You can download connectors for Safari, Chrome and Opera.
  • Zotero bookmarklet: If you use other browsers than mentioned above or you don’t wish to install extensions or software to your computer you can use Zotero bookmarklet. It will work with any browser including mobile/tablet browsers. Zotero bookmarklet will save the items directly into your online library at zotero.org. (You must register with username and password before you can create an online library)

 

You can use Zotero with:

 

The Zotero library:

 

Advantages with Zotero

    • Free up to 300 MB of storage.
    • Easy to use to make references to webpages.
    • Automatically imports PDFs when possible.
    • Good at retrieving PDF metadata.
    • Easy import of citations via browser plug-in.
    • Works well with Word, LibreOffice, LaTeX/BibTeX, Google docs.
    • You can still use Zotero after you finished studying or quit working at NTNU because it is free. That is not the case with EndNote and RefWorks which require a licence.
    • Good support from user community at zotero.org

 

Tips and tricks

https://www.zotero.org/support/tips_and_tricks

 

Good luck with using Zotero.

 

 

 

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Databases Patents Research Standards UBedu UBrss

Standards and Patents at the University Library

The NTNU University Library subscribes to a number of portals offering standards and patents.  These portals offer different standards based on subject area.

What is a standard?

Standards define an agreed, repeatable way of doing something, which is documented in specifications, procedures and guidelines. They are designed to ensure that products, services and systems are safe, reliable and consistent within a desired performance level, and cover everything from consumer products and services to engineering, energy utilities, the environment and much more.

Standards are based on industrial and scientific experience, and are frequently reviewed to make sure that they are up to date with current technology. The use of standards serves as a basis for the trust that consumers have in a product or service, and ensures that the consumer can expect a certain quality from their purchase.

There are three kinds of standards. International standards (e.g. ISO-standards), Regional standards (like those found in the European Union, EN-standards) and national standards. Often, countries adopt international standard for national use.

Standards are, in essence, concentrated knowledge. They are tools that facilitate technical improvement and an increase in productivity, and are also suited for educational purposes. The NTNU University Library can offer standards from a wide range of subjects and fields.

Go here for direct access to the Oria database for portals to standards.

Some of the portals you can find in Oria:

You can get access to international and national standards like ISO, NS and NEK at standard.no

For IEEE standards you can go here. This database gives you access to standards for computer engineering, biomedicine, telecommunications, electrical engineering, electric power engineering, space engineering and consumer electronics.

The American Petroleum Institute offer standards that are widely used worldwide in the oil and natural gas industry. This link gives you access to API standards through the IHS database. To use this database you will need to create an account using your NTNU email address.

Patents

The University Library also provides access to patent databases. A patent is used for protecting a solution to a technical problem. It also gives the patent applicant the sole rights to use this solution in a commercial context during the patent lifetime (normally 20 years) in the countries where the patent is valid. No one else can use the solution to produce, market or sell something in these countries until the patent has expired.

The patent databases can be found via this link to Oria.