The Pen is Mightier with SWORD – MTU’s Institutional Repository

The Pen is Mightier with SWORD – MTU’s Institutional Repository

Learn how the South West Open Research Deposit (SWORD) can be used to enhance the reach, impact and engagement of your research.

By Teaching and Learning Unit, MTU

Date and time

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 03:00 - 04:00 PST

Location

Online

About this event

Presented By

  • Sinéad Hanrahan, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Library

Seminar Description

Will you or your students be involved in research during your/their time in MTU?

Do your funders require you to make your research outputs available through Open Access?

Are you planning to publish articles, conference papers, monographs, book chapters or any related datasets?

Are you creating reports, entries for conference proceedings or posters?

Will you be hosting a conference in the coming year?

Do you have a journal that needs an online home?

If the answer is yes to any of the above, then you really should attend this information session!

The aim of SWORD is to collect, disseminate and preserve all of MTU’s research under one roof. By doing this SWORD can enhance the impact of your research and broaden the scope of the research activities for you and your departments.

Those attending this session will learn:

  • What SWORD is and what it does
  • What types of research and scholarly work are suitable for SWORD
  • How SWORD can host conferences and journals
  • Why you should deposit research in SWORD
  • How to deposit your work in SWORD

Organised by

Office of Registrar and VP for Academic Affairs, MTU

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