RESEARCH SERVICES AT LA MERCED CAMPUS Erasmus Staff Training Week - University of Murcia - 6th to 10th May 2013

RESEARCH SERVICES AT LA MERCED CAMPUS Objectives: Provide a framework to support researchers in both their teaching and research. Provide advanced students access to information, training and learning materials for their educational programs.

Hemeroteca “Clara Campoamor” (Research resources center)

Services (I) Information and specialized reference services, by telephone, and chat. Document search service in the catalog, databases and electronic journals.

Services (II) Request of internal and external documents. Print journals reading service. Delivery by of digitized articles from print journals. Journal title alerts for researchers.

Services (III) User training for electronic information resources and tools, either individually or in groups. Sessions on demand for researchers who want training in the use of digital library resources.

Services (IV) Advice service for self-archiving in DIGITUM, the institutional digital repository that collects scientific production from the Universidad de Murcia Collaboration on digitalization and recording of metadata for DIGITUM and Dialnet projects.

Hemeroteca Clara Campoamor (Research Resources Center) Clara Campoamor building opened on March 8 of It houses the periodicals collection of the faculties of Law and Humanities that are both the oldest of the University of Murcia.

Hemeroteca Clara Campoamor building is distributed in four floors: - The first and second floors are open access, with the latest issues of printed periodicals received. - The third and fourth floors are the depot of the historical collection of periodicals from both faculties in printed format. The collection of periodicals is about 5,000 titles.

Digital Library Nowadays, our main efforts, both financial and human, are devoted to electronic resources: Electronic journals, databases and digital repositories + Discovery tools and reference management software Digitum: Digital repository of the University Library

Digitum, Digital repository of the University Library, is part of the national repository of library documents Recolecta and also is part of Hispania, the repository of libraries, museums and historical archives. Its purpose is to allow free access to the scientific and academic production of the University to increase the visibility of its contents and ensure the preservation of these digital files.

We have recently converted to digital format the articles of 25 journals published by our University, many of them current collections. In fact, Digitum contains over 7,700 articles from journals published by the Faculties of Law and Humanities.

Scientific support for research assessment Scientists need to assess the quality and impact of scientific outputs: journal articles, book chapters. New service for researchers: Acreditación y sexenios. Accreditation (evaluation required to join the University Teaching Bodies). National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA) Sexenios: six-yearly productivity complement (merit pay system). National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity of the University Teaching Staff (CNEAI) investigacion/acreditacion-y-sexenios

What do we offer: How to search the Journal Impact Factor (Thomson Reuters and others) National evaluation agencies (legal framework, procedures, criteria) Tools: main databases for journals, books, proceedings How to use these tools? User training Useful links

Thank you very much for your attention. Rosario Guiard Pablo Pérez Ballester