Information Sessions for Academics & Postgraduates

The Library is running a series of information sessions for academic staff and postgraduate students over the Summer including a session on Self-Archiving and the University Repository. The following sessions all take place in the Library (to book your place, find out more information or to suggest topics for future sessions, please send an email to: library-sessions ). Of course not everyone can visit the Library so please do contact me if you have any questions on any of the topics covered.

15th August 1415-1545: Introduction to Copyright for teaching and research (for staff and postgraduates with teaching responsibilities): Guidelines for what you can and cannot copy or make available for your classes in your teaching. The session covers copyright regulations with reference to developments in Creative Commons Licencing.

22nd August, 1415-1545: Keeping up to date: Identifies alerting services to keep abreast of developments in your field of research. Mainly covering the use of RSS newsfeeds but also Table of Contents alerting services (ZETOC), identification of email lists and conferences etc.

29th August, 1415-1545: Who’s Citing Whom? Want to know who is citing articles you’ve written, or trace developments since a particular article was published? Help with citation searching within the Web of Science and using Journal Citation Reports to find journal impact factors.

4th September, 1015-1145: Self Archiving and the University Repository: Of interest to those publishing articles and papers. The institutional repository is a store for full-text papers and materials from members of an organisation such as a university. It allows research to be preserved and show-cased, and helps improve article citation rates. It also helps researchers to meet funding body requirements to make their research publicly available.

Details of the series can be found on our library webpages under the Help section entitled Research & Information Training at http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/subjects/sessions07.html

Library Scanning Service for Academics

The Library is very pleased to announce that the Library Scanning Service has been launched! This new service will enable academic staff to take advantage of the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Scanning Licence. We expect this service might be of great benefit to students, especially distance learners.

The license is paid for by the Library and enables us to deliver electronic copies of certain printed materials held in the Library. For more information, please view the: Guide to the Library Scanning Service.

Training: keeping up to date with information

The Library is offering a series of research skills sessions for teaching staff & postgraduate students. Details of upcoming sessions are given below. To book a place on any of these courses or find out more information please send an email to or check the following webpage for more information: http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/subjects/sessions07.html

Who's Citing Whom?
7th March, 1615-1730:
Library Level 5 West Training Room
Want to know who is citing articles you’ve written, or trace developments since a particular article was published? A session on citation searching with the Web of Science and using Journal Citation Reports to find journal impact factors.

Keeping up to date
14th March, 1615-1730
Library Level 5 West Training Room
Session identifies alerting services to keep abreast of developments in your field of research.

Plagiarism for Academic Staff (for staff with teaching responsibilities)
26th March, 1030-1200
Library Level 4 Meeting Room
Looking at what plagiarism is and the different forms it can take, how to help students avoid it and ideas on how it can be detected.

Introduction to Copyright for teaching and research (for staff with teaching responsibilities)
2nd April, 1030-1200
Library Level 4 Meeting Room
Confused, concerned or unaware of the rules relating to copying? This session for research and teaching staff aims to show what copying is allowed by current University licences.