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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, 1.8 million library loans from the University of Lincoln under CC0 – Copac Activity Data/SALT2 project, on the site Paul Stainthorp 5 hours, 58 minutes ago

Today we published data on approximately 1.8 million items loaned from the University of Lincoln’s libraries since 2001. The data is available to re-use under a CC0 licence, and can be downloaded from:

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Over the moon (again): Orbital v0.1 released, on the site Paul Stainthorp 10 hours, 39 minutes ago

Joss Winn has blogged this morning about a signficant milestone in the Orbital project. Today we released Orbital v0.1, and, from today, invited researchers at the University of Lincoln have access to an alpha ‘<a […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, User testing with Orbital v0.1, on the site Orbital 15 hours, 19 minutes ago

Orbital v0.1 was released on 16 May 2012. Every two weeks, staff working on Orbital meet with Dr Bingo Wing-Kuen Ling and Dr Chunmei Qing to discuss their research and RDM practice. Until now these meetings have […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, User testing with Orbital v0.1, on the site Paul Stainthorp 15 hours, 37 minutes ago

Orbital v0.1 was released on 16 May 2012. Every two weeks, staff working on Orbital meet with Dr Bingo Wing-Kuen Ling and Dr Chunmei Qing to discuss their research and RDM practice. Until now these meetings have […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Major update to the ProQuest database platform, on the site Paul Stainthorp 1 day, 11 hours ago

We’re now using a new version of the ProQuest database search platform for access to 11 library databases from the ProQuest company. This includes several familiar databases on an ‘academic’ version of the […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Quick update on the Lincoln Repository, on the site Paul Stainthorp 1 day, 12 hours ago

I wrote this short update on the Lincoln Repository for a University committee this week: you might as well see it.

The Repository now contains more than 3,700 research output records, with 30% available as […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Article finder form on the e-journals A-to-Z, on the site Paul Stainthorp 5 days, 12 hours ago

The e-journals A-to-Z website now includes an article finder.

Fill in the form with the details of the article you are trying to locate, and the A-to-Z will display links to available electronic full-text […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Find it @ Lincoln: looking forward to a new EBSCO discovery service in the Library, on the site Paul Stainthorp 5 days, 14 hours ago

Following long, looong discussions, we have finally chosen a next-generation library discovery service for the University of Lincoln Library.

After reviewing the four major commercially-available discovery […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Imminent domain, on the site Paul Stainthorp 6 days, 4 hours ago

With various new services arising out of the ongoing Library ICT systems review, we’re amassing a nice little collection of library-related 2nd-level subdomains. Here’s a list, which I’ll edit as they become […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, CLOCK notes – 8 May 2012, on the site Cambridge-Lincoln Open Catalogue Knowledgebase 1 week, 1 day ago

This is what the CLOCK project team are currently up to (from meetings over the past couple of weeks and from notes made at the recent “Discovery: making sure your resources are discovered, used and reused“ event […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, CLOCK notes – 8 May 2012, on the site Paul Stainthorp 1 week, 1 day ago

This is what the CLOCK project team are currently up to (from meetings over the past couple of weeks and from notes made at the recent “Discovery: making sure your resources are discovered, used and reused“ event […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Notes on last week’s KB+ meeting, on the site Paul Stainthorp 1 week, 1 day ago

As I start to understand the aims of JISC Collections’ KB+ (KnowledgeBase+) project a bit better, it’s starting to seem more and more relevant to the real-life problems of e-resources management. At last week’s […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, RefWorks citation output styles for the University of Lincoln – added IEEE, on the site Paul Stainthorp 1 week, 5 days ago

At the request of the School of Engineering, we have added a new citation output style to the ‘University of Lincoln Specific‘ list of styles preferred and/or supported at the University of Lincoln.

The IEEE […]

Paul Stainthorp commented on the post, The EDGE Conference, on the site Thought Cloud 1 week, 6 days ago

This is an excellent write-up, Elif. Congratulations on breaking your blogging duck! It sounds like it was a nice, diverse conference programme.

Paul Stainthorp commented on the post, Adding books to your RefWorks account from the UoL Library Catalogue, on the site Thought Cloud 1 week, 6 days ago

Spot on. Thanks Elif. This will be really useful.

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, KB+ TAG meeting, on the site Paul Stainthorp 1 week, 6 days ago

I’m in London today for a meeting of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the JISC KnowledgeBase+ (KB+) project.

KB+ is an ambitious project to create a “shared service knowledge base for UK academic libraries […]

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, The University of Lincoln Library is on Twitter, on the site Paul Stainthorp 2 weeks ago

Follow @GCWLibrary for updates.

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, The technical approach: a CLOCK dev stack, on the site Cambridge-Lincoln Open Catalogue Knowledgebase 2 weeks ago

A note on technical development:

We’re beginning to make some progress towards a framework for development in the CLOCK project. Project developers Trevor Jones and Andrew Beeken, with the support of the other […]