Graduate School Bulletin, November 2019

October 29, 2019

Issue 07/19 (19) This bulletin provides monthly updates on upcoming events and activities by the Graduate School. Training courses & workshops Researcher Development Programme (RDP) We are offering the following RDP courses in November 2019. These courses are open to postgraduate students. Date Time Course 1 November 2019 10am – 12noon Preparing for Your Annual …

Coffee & Cake Session 6/2019

October 25, 2019

The sixth and final Coffee and Cake session for this year was held on 25 October 2019. This casual gathering session was very well attended by the postgraduates students. Introducing the new Postgraduate Students’ Officer During the session, the newly elected Postgraduate Students’ Officer, Angela Paul Peter, took the opportunity to introduce herself to the …

Open Access week 2019: Open science data?

This is posted on behalf of Professor Deborah Hall, Vice Provost (Research & Knowledge Exchange). So far this week, I’ve been writing about open access publishing of academic manuscripts. But the data itself behind those articles is an increasingly important community resource. Open science data promotes public access to observations and results of scientific activities …

Open Access week 2019: Nottingham e-repository and ResearchGate

October 24, 2019

This is posted on behalf of Professor Deborah Hall, Vice Provost (Research & Knowledge Exchange). Here at UNM, we’re keen for you to make Nottingham research outputs available to a global audience. Nottingham ePrints is a searchable digital archive which provides the green route to open access for research outputs (articles, conference papers etc produced by University of …

Open Access week 2019: Which license?

October 23, 2019

This is posted on behalf of Professor Deborah Hall, Vice Provost (Research & Knowledge Exchange). In Monday’s blog, I explained that when you publish by traditional routes, as an author you typically grant all your rights as author and copyright owner to the publisher. It doesn’t belong to you anymore. A benefit of full open …

Open Access week 2019: Who pays?

October 22, 2019

This is posted on behalf of Professor Deborah Hall, Vice Provost (Research & Knowledge Exchange). Publishers are businesses that make money out of managing academic journals. Academic publishers have two main income streams (excluding advertising revenue). The first income stream is from reader subscriptions. For example, our library at UNM pays publishers through annual journal …

UNM student wins the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science Fellowship 2019

October 21, 2019

We are proud to inform that Shivaani Mariapun, our PhD student from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, has recently won the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship and received a research grant of RM30,000. Shivaani was awarded in recognition of her research on mammographic density and breast cancer risk in Asian women. Her …

Open Access week 2019: Green or Gold routes

This is posted on behalf of Professor Deborah Hall, Vice Provost (Research & Knowledge Exchange). When you publish by traditional routes, as an author you typically grant all your rights as author and copyright owner to the publisher. It doesn’t belong to you anymore. This means that if you want to do anything with your …

Open Access week 2019 is coming to UNM!

October 18, 2019

This is posted on behalf of Professor Deborah Hall, Vice Provost (Research & Knowledge Exchange).   What is open access? This refers to free-to-all, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles, conference posters, book chapters and even whole books. As Vice Provost (Research and Knowledge Exchange), I’m often asked by academic staff if …

Postgraduate Welcome Programme 2019

October 15, 2019

Our annual welcome programme for all new and returning postgraduate students was held on 30 September – 7 October 2019. The programme consisted of a day of welcome event and a 5-day Research Boot Camp. Welcome Day The welcome event featured a series of introductory presentations as well as social and educational activities, aimed to …