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Happy December everyone,
The cozy season has started and hopefully you had time to wander around and admire all the beautiful light decorations people have set up, sip on some glögg and eat a bunch of lussebullar.
Unfortunately, I could not come up with an idea on how this letter could add to the “cozy-feeling” but hopefully you are nibbling on some pepperkakor while reading it. This time the letter will be taking you on a journey to a few places around the globe, including KAU and the KAU library, to check out some of the research discussions that are going on, snap the latest (library) news and find a few other things that might be relevant to research life.
If you read this letter and feel like, “naw, nothing for me” don´t hesitate to get in touch with us and tell us what you would like to read instead. This letter is aimed for you as a researcher and we are doing our best to produce content that matches your interests and background. However, as long as we haven’t perfected the art of mind-reading we need your feedback to see whether we are hitting the bull´s eye or not.
On that same note, I should add that we are already in 2022 mode here at the library, planning vividly for the new year. If there is any service that you find missing or if there is any seminar you think we could arrange feel free to hit reply to get in touch.
If you are completely happy with everything just enjoy December and make sure you find some time to do --- nothing at all.
Best wishes,
Nadja Neumann 
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We are KAU library
Sometimes we get to hear that we are a bit anonymous here at the library, other times we are told that we have such great services but that we are not very good at marketing them. So let´s kill two birds with one stone and present one of us in each newsletter and tell you about a few things that we work with. First out is Ann Dyrman, our coordinator for researcher support and subject librarian for researchers at Karlstad business school. Ann and her team support you throughout the research process, with advice on issues such as scientific publishing and dissemination, information searches for research purposes, reference management, copyright, systematic literature reviews and bibliometrics. Ann herself is a heart-and-soul librarian, who will answer any of your questions with a smile and she is also one of our Endnote and APA gurus.
Asked why it is a good research strategy for you to contact the library, Ann answers the following:
Diving into the ever increasing universe of information quicksand called scientific publications and journals can be a challenge and might keep you below the surface for much longer than you really have time for. Talking to us can help you navigate much more efficiently, find your golden nuggets more quickly and free time for your actual research.
You can read about all our services in more detail here:
https://www.kau.se/en/library/researchers and get in touch with Ann using ann.dyrman@kau.se
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Sunet drive – give your data some space
Sunet drive may sound a bit like a street name in posh Beverly Hills but is in fact much closer to you and potentially something you have been longing for. Launched on December 1st it is KAUs new storage solution for research data. In addition to making it safer and easier for you to have your data in Sunet Drive, it also facilitates collaborations on data in research projects with participants from different organizations.
It may also be good to know that Sunet Drive is organized around projects. This means that the project manager of the research project needs to apply for project space via an order form. Sounds interesting? You can find more information (in Swedish) here:
https://inslaget.kau.se/nyheter/48609
If you have questions or if you want more information, please contact Claes Asker
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Which creative commons license is right for me?
Creative commons licenses allow authors to specify ways how their works can be used by others without having to grant permission for each individual request. Choosing the best license for your scholarly publication is not always easy and the answer might be clouded by the range of options available. Let´s do a crash course on two common choices, the rather open CC-BY (Attribution) license and the restrictive CC-BY-NC-ND (Attribution + Non-commercial + No derivatives).
The first one, CC-BY, is the most commonly used one and allows others to use, distribute, remix, modify and build upon your work, also in commercial contexts. Importantly, those who re-use a CC-BY licensed work always need to give attribution to the original authors, which is stipulated by the BY in the license.
Generally, this license is a good choice and also the one mandated by many research funders, because it makes it possible to build on and reuse parts of a scientific work without limitations. This means for example that you as a researcher can use someone else’s CC-BY licensed chart in your own blog post or for a conference presentation without asking permission as long as you cite the original work.
With the much more restrictive CC-BY-NC-ND license this is not possible as it only allows re-users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in an unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes. Also here, attribution must be given to the creator. There might be occasions where this license is the right one for you but remember that derivative works are an important part of scholarship. Choosing -ND means also saying no for others to refer to your work with phrases like “adapted from ref. (x)”.
If none of those two licenses seem appealing to you, no problem. There are several other “in-between” options. The following flowchart lets you test which may be suitable for you.
Flowchart - Which license is right for me?
If you are hungry for further reading check out the Royal library’s FAQ page: Creative commons FAQ
For questions please get in touch with Inga Lill Nilsson, Jörg Pareigis or Publishing support
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PhD course Information retrieval for Ph.D. students
” Wonderful and all-rounded course completely exceeded my expectations. Very helpful and enjoyable.” is one of the latest comments we received for our PhD course in information retrieval, which is given one time each term.
If you are a PhD student and want to learn more about information seeking for research purposes, reference management, copyright issues, open access, bibliometrics and publishing strategies this course might be somethings for you too.
We have just finished the English version of this course and have now opened for applications for the spring course, which will be taught in Swedish.
You find dates and times here: More information
Any questions?
Please contact: Åsa Möller
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Science skills to go seminar: A concrete approach to the abstract
The abstract of a research article is intended to provide other researchers with an overview. Often it is also the only text an editor reads before he/she decides whether your article may continue to peer-review or whether it gets rejected. It is therefore important to give your abstracts some extra love and attention.
In the final week of this year’s series of Science Skills to go, academic writing tutors Carina Nylén and Roald McManus will outline the structure of abstracts in articles following the IMRaD model. Carina’s workshop (14/12, in Swedish) includes a writing exercise which you can keep as an active document while writing your paper; Roald’s workshop (16/12, in English) includes a model abstract penned by Canadian academic Steve Easterbrook which should help scientists reporting on a whole range of experiments.
Session with Carina Nylén
TIME: Tuesday 14/12, 15.00-15.40
Session with Roald McManus
TIME: Thursday 16/12, 15.00-15.40
Pre-registration at 9 am the same day at the latest is required. Send an e-mail to roald.mcmanus@kau.se or carina.nylen@kau.se respectively. Zoom link will be sent to participants upon registration.
If you have suggestions for future events, don’t hesitate to let us know.
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Bibliometric analysis – check your publications
This is just a quick reminder for you to check the publication list that was sent out to you the other day to make sure that all your publications that give the grounds for the upcoming bibliometric analyses have been picked up correctly.
You should have received the email from nadja.neumann@kau.se and this is also who you should contact if you have any questions about this. Deadline is December 18th.
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Read and publish agreements with academic publishers
At this time of year, the library is as usual renewing its agreements with academic publishers to ensure that you as a KAU researcher can access the electronic journals and databases you need. The trend towards combining the reading rights with the rights to publish open access continues, and the library has now signed 17 agreements with publishers where the publishing cost is covered for you by the library in advance. We expect that by the end of the year we will have signed around 20 agreements.
In the first 2022 newsletter we will give you the full list of publisher agreements.
Questions? Contact Anna-Britta Nilsson
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Reading tip: Peer-review - 15 000 years of free labor
Today we would like to share an article about the past, the now and the future of peer-review with you. Unfortunately, it is in Swedish but as it contains some crunchy food for thought and has potential for great fika discussions we would like to share it anyways. Here you go: Discussion piece about peer-review
For you who don´t master the Swedish language yet, hopefully google translate can help and here is also the link to one of the original studies that the discussion in the article above builds upon.
A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review
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Listen up! Forskningspodden and The pathologist in the basement
By now you may know that we have our own podcast series Forskningspodden, in which we talk with KAUs latest licentiate and PhD defenders. The three newest episodes are about children´s physical activity with Johan Högman, Biblical allusion in three Charles Dickens novels with Yuanyuan Zhu (who joined us all the way from China) and the teaching of digital models with Helen Brink. Care to listen? Just search for “forskningspodden” at Soundcloud, iTunes and other streaming services or click to listen right here: Forskningspodden
Since it is Christmas time, we would like to treat you with another podcast tip as well. It is called ‘Lost Women of Science’ and highlights, just as the title implicates, women that achieved great things in Science but were left out from the stories.
The first episode is about physician and pathologist Dorothy Andersen who, when confronted with heaps of baffling infant deaths, suspected the accepted diagnosis wasn’t right. Listen to the story about her medical investigations that led to our current understanding of cystic fibrosis.
Link: Podcast and transcript
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Thank you...
...for reading this letter all the way through. We hope you enjoyed it.
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