The Virtual Research Environment

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 The Virtual Research Environment 3 Existing VREs 3.1 JISC VRE Videos 3.2 JISC publications 4 Training 4.1 Existing Opportunities 4.2 Planned Opportunities 4.3 Requests & Suggestions 5 Tools 5.1 Data Analysis 5.2 Publishing 5.3 Discovery 5.3.1 Library catalogues 5.3.2 Electronic databases 5.3.3 Journals, e-journals, and journal TOCs 5.3.4 Scholarly web search 5.3.5 Theses 5.4 Collaboration & Networking 5.5 Reference management 5.6 Bibliometrics and ranking 5.7 Resource collections 6 Subject Specific Notes

[edit] Introduction

The development of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is one of the tools that the University of Lincoln is using to make its support for researchers more effective. This wiki is intended to be used by researchers to share best practice and experiences. Its effectiveness will depend on how many researchers contribute to it, so we hope that as many researchers as possible will do so.

[edit] The Virtual Research Environment

A VRE comprises a set of online tools and other network resources and technologies interoperating with each other to support or enhance the processes of a wide range of research practitioners within and across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. A key characteristic of a VRE is that it facilitates collaboration amongst researchers and research teams providing them with more effective means of collaboratively collecting, manipulating and managing data, as well as collaborative knowledge creation. VRE Roadmap.

[edit] Existing VREs

The following are examples of VREs either running or under development, some of which are funded by JISC.

• myExperiment.org - "The myExperiment Virtual Research Environment enables you and your colleagues to share digital items associated with your research — in particular it enables you to share and execute scientific workflows."

• VERA - Virtual Research Environments in Archaeology

• Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities at Oxford

[edit] JISC VRE Videos

Click here to view a playlist of videos about the JISC VRE projects.

Video for researchers

Video for developers

[edit] JISC publications

VRE Landscape Study

VRE Lessons Learned

[edit] Training

[edit] Existing Opportunities

• Workshop: Working smarter with the web

• Workshop: Getting started with RefWorks

• Workshop: Advanced searching skills for researchers

[edit] Planned Opportunities

• Workshop: Open Access and the Lincoln Repository.

• Workshop series: Effective Use of Wikipedia 101

• Interest group: Web 2.0 for research, teaching and learning.

[edit] Requests & Suggestions

[edit] Tools

[edit] Data Analysis

• Nvivo

• Weft-QDA

• SPSS

[edit] Publishing

• EPrints

• Open Journal Systems

• WordPress

[edit] Discovery

[edit] Library catalogues

• British Library Integrated Catalogue

• Copac - union catalogue, gives free access to the merged online catalogues of many major academic libraries in the UK and Ireland

• Lincolnshire county library service

• University of Lincoln Library Catalogue

[edit] Electronic databases

• e-Library (University of Lincoln Portal) - a directory of electronic library resources

[edit] Journals, e-journals, and journal TOCs

• Electronic Journals A-to-Z (University of Lincoln)

• ticTOCs

• SUNCAT - a free tool to help researchers and librarians locate serials held in the UK

• Zetoc:
  • Zetoc Search
  • Zetoc Alert
  • Zetoc RSS

[edit] Scholarly web search

• Google Scholar

• OAIster - search across digital repositories

• Scirus

[edit] Theses

• British Library EThOS - search and order theses online

• Index to Theses

[edit] Collaboration & Networking

• BuddyPress

• Access Grid

• Academia.edu

[edit] Reference management

• 2collab

• CiteULike

• Connotea

• EndNote Web

• Mendeley

• refbase

• RefWorks - supported by the University

• Zotero

• Link: Comparison of reference management software - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] Bibliometrics and ranking

• ISI Web of Science (University of Lincoln Portal)
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  • Science Citation Index Expanded
  • Social Sciences Citation Index

• Journal Citation Reports (University of Lincoln Portal)
  • JCR Social Sciences Edition

• Eigenfactor

• Publish or Perish

[edit] Resource collections

• Delicious (Research Office example)

• ResearchResearch (funding opportunities)

• Grantfinder (funding opportunities - request a login from Kay Marriot)

[edit] Subject Specific Notes

Use this to add subject/discipline specific notes. If necessary, duplicate the headings above for a single discipline.