Penglais Postgraduate Centre

Postgraduates - are you aware of the Penglais Postgraduate Centre in the Llandinam Building, Penglais Campus? It is part of the on-going University investment in the dedicated postgraduate facilities across the campuses. It was opened in October 2013, and this high-class facility offers quiet study spaces of both an open-plan and private cubicle nature, a central printer for postgraduate usage, lockers for personal use, a seminar room equipped with visual display facilities, and a social lounge and kitchen area.

Registered postgraduates are entitled to make use of this space. Entry is by swiping your Aber Card at the entrance. Hopefully this excellent study space will enhance your studies at Aberystwyth.

The official opening of the Elystan Morgan Building

A post by Lillian Stevenson, Academic Services Manager and Law Librarian.

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Tours of the Thomas Parry Library and displays of rare law books in the University Library as part of the official opening of the Elystan Morgan Building on 20th November 2013

It was wonderful to meet Lord Elystan Morgan, alumni, local solicitors, members of Senate and many others at the official opening of the Elystan Morgan Building, the new home of the Department of Law & Criminology in Llanbadarn.

Bracton De Legibus 1569 - one of the rare law books from the University Library
on display for the official opening ceremony of the Elystan Morgan Building.

It provided an ideal opportunity to show guests the Thomas Parry Library which is adjacent to the Elystan Morgan Building. The Thomas Parry Library houses the law and criminology collections from the former Law Library and has group study rooms, training room, computer room and of course, library and IT help on hand.

Plagiarism Versus Good Academic Practice

Below you can view the video of a talk given to undergraduates by Karl Drinkwater on 10th October 2013. It covers the basics of what plagiarism is and how to avoid it by adopting good academic practice.

FAME Workshop

Thomas Parry Library Training Room

Wednesday 27th November 2013

1.30 – 2.30 pm

“FAME contains comprehensive financial information on active and inactive UK and Irish companies. The expert searching options on FAME give you access to over 300 search criteria, Boolean logic and other functional options resulting in a flexible information solution for researching UK and Irish companies and industries. “

https://fame.bvdinfo.com/home.serv?product=fameneo&loginfromcontext=ipaddress

• Invitation open to all interested staff and students.  
• Training provided by Christina Nobbs from Bureau Van Dijk (FAME supplier)
• Examples of how FAME is being used in other Universities
• Please come along with specific questions/queries.

Why use your library?

Open Access Week 2013

OPEN ACCESS WEEK – 21/27 October 2013

In association with Open Access Week, we would like to highlight CADAIR, Aberystwyth University’s own open access window to AU staff and student research, giving access to peer-reviewed papers not hidden behind a subscription wall.

Today Cadair is populated with articles through AU’s research management system PURE which sends articles appropriate for Open Access to Cadair once any embargo periods have passed.  From the CADAIR start page, staff papers can be searched using author names or keywords, or browsed by Department/Communities or by more specific subject collections.

The major exception to this are the AU theses, for which the records and associated files are loaded directly to CADAIR.  Thesis records are gathered together in the CADAIR Postgraduate Publications collection but can also be found in the relevant departmental collections. 

Most major academic publishers (e.g. CUP, OUP, Wiley, Elsevier, Sage) will now allow either gold open access publishing or green open access depositing of papers in their journals. Gold open access papers are funded for by authors paying “Article Processing Charges”, otherwise known as APCs in advance of publication, allowing all readers to read the paper on the publisher’s website with no subscription charges.  Major journals therefore often now contain both open-access papers (open-to-all) and standard papers which are open only to subscribers or subscribing institutions. Aberystwyth University has received some APC funding for gold open access publishing from the HE Funding Councils.  If you wish to make enquiries about using these funds to support your research papers being published on “gold open access”, please contact mailto:openaccess@aber.ac.uk