Available 26 May – 27 June, 2016, InCites is a customized, citation-based research evaluation tool on the Web that lets academic, government and research administrators and funders conduct analyses on their productivity and benchmark their research output against peers worldwide.

To learn more about InCites™ go to http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com

Webinar on how to use InCites: Play recording

For more see: YouTube channel

Guides: InCites Handbook

The deadline for Spring-Summer term courses will be April 11. Please submit your readings by this date if you want them to be available at the beginning of the term. Requests received after April 11 will be processed on  “as received” basis

Get Started

If you have any Spring/Summer lists, we have time to process them now. If you want to get started, please use one of the two following methods:

• If you are using Moodle, follow the instructions here: http://guides.library.queensu.ca/ereserves/instructor-tutorials/moodle
• If you are using OnQ or want to just have an eReserves webpage without using a Learning Management System, follow the instructions here: http://guides.library.queensu.ca/ereserves/instructor-tutorials/stand-alone

Other instructor tutorials are available here: http://guides.library.queensu.ca/ereserves/instructor-tutorials

Tips for faster processing

If you are not quite ready to submit an entire list, please send the first 3-4 weeks of readings. This way, materials can be supplied on time for the beginning of the term.

Check on your readings to be sure students will have access to materials without delay. If you notice a problem or have any questions, contact slreserv@queensu.ca.

February 22-26th is Fair Dealing/Fair Use Week and we want you to contribute to the discussion!

What is Fair Dealing?

The Copyright Act allows the use of material from a copyright protected work (literature, musical scores, audiovisual works, etc.) without permission from or payment to the copyright owner for specified purposes. These purposes include research, private-study, education, parody, satire, criticism, review, or news reporting. This rule, called the “fair dealing exception,” has a large, positive impact on K-12 schools and post-secondary educational institutions.

In order to celebrate fair dealing, the University of Toronto have launched the Fair Dealing Canada Website. While fair use and fair dealing is employed on a daily basis by students, faculty, librarians, journalists, and all users of copyrighted material, fair use/fair dealing Week is a time to promote and discuss the opportunities presented, celebrate successful stories and explain the doctrine.

Fair Dealing Canada www.fairdealingcanada.com Photos and testimonials about the fair dealing exception.

Fair Dealing/Fair Use week is an initiative commissioned by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).

Why is this important?

The promotion and discussion of the Fair Dealing exception as enhancing opportunities for educational, research, and reporting purposes will help to solidify its importance in the Canadian context of education from the primary to post-secondary level.

What can you do?

Let us know how the fair dealing exception has impacted your life at Queen’s University. We are welcoming undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, faculty members, librarians, and other users of copyrighted material to share your experience with fair dealing.

If you would like to share you experience:

1. Answer one or any of the questions below
2. Submit a photo OR request a photo be taken by us
3. Check out www.fairdealingcanada.com and http://fairuseweek.org/ for more information.

• How does fair dealing affect what you do at Queen’s University?
• What do you see as the library’s role in helping you with copyright and fair dealing?
• How do you think your life would change if there wasn’t a fair dealing exception?
• How does fair dealing affect your studies at Queen’s University?
• How does fair dealing affect the way you teach your courses?
• Is it important for future generations to be able to use the fair dealing exception?

Thank you for your contribution to fair use/fair dealing week and the Fair Dealing Canada project! Please email copy.right@queensu.ca with your submission.

Please review your readings

With the start of the Winter term, we want to make sure that all courses are ready to go and that students have access to their readings.

To help us with this, please review your eReserves reading list and make sure that any January items are available. Check all items, making sure that all readings required for January are available. If you see early January items that are still “in processing” (awaiting acquisitions, stacks searching etc.), send an email to slreserv@queensu.ca stating that these readings are needed within the next week or two. Please keep in mind that this is our first day back. Emails and requests sent over the holidays will take some time to be addressed.

We will continue to fill requests throughout the semester. You can send additions to slreserv@queensu.ca or submit them through the Ares eReserve interface.

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How to create courses and integrate your readings to Moodle and onQ

Students can access readings through the stand-alone eReserve interface, through Moodle, or through onQ. Please make sure that your course is set up correctly and is accessible to your students. If you have any questions, email slreserv@queensu.ca.

• How to set up a stand-alone course and add a course to onQ: http://guides.library.queensu.ca/ereserves/instructor-tutorials/stand-alone

• How to add and clone courses in Moodle: http://guides.library.queensu.ca/ereserves/instructor-tutorials/moodle

• How submit reading requests and clone items from previous semesters: http://guides.library.queensu.ca/ereserves/instructor-tutorials/add-clone-edit

This Week is University Press Week (UPW) – Nov 8 – 14, a week to celebrate the impact and contribution of university presses on culture and scholarship.  Find out more about UPW via the website of the American Association of University Presses.

A joint venture of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and Queen’s University, McGill Queen’s University Press is both a specialist in the Canadian perspective and a publisher of international themes. With over 2,500 books in print and numerous awards and bestsellers, thier goal is to “produce peer-reviewed, rigorously edited, beautifully produced, intelligent, interesting books”.

This lively panel discussion explored knowledge exchange and exposure from different angles, including authors, publishers, funders, research administrators, open science advocates and librarians.

Recorded on: October 20, 2015

Speakers

Play.

Jisc (UK) and CNI (US) report: the “journey towards openness“, encompassing open access, open data and open scholarship, some of the interrelationships among these developments, and some particular challenges in international cooperation to advance these shifts across higher education.

Wed October 29th 10am – 11am EST – FREE Webinar: Knowledge Unlatched Round 2 Webinar– enabling Open Access for scholarly books.

Access the webinar here.

Discover Municipal, regional, provincial, and territorial open data websites in Canada.

Description:

Reports find that perceptions of OA publishing are changing for the better and as a result, many faculty members seek out OA publications for maximum access and impact. However, other researchers continue to avoid it, and those who are early in their careers still aren’t sure how to fit it in their publishing priorities. In this one-hour webinar, three faculty members will discuss why researchers do – or do not – publish in open access outlets and how they look to librarians for support in this process.

Access the recording here.