OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.53 – May 2021)

Welcome to the latest update on RGU’s open access institutional repository, OpenAIR. If you have any suggestions for things that you would like to see in these monthly updates, or if you have any questions about the repository service, please get in touch with the Publications Team.

News

Each month the Publications Team run a group training session that explains how to record outputs in Worktribe and OpenAIR. If you would like to be invited to a session, please email us (publications@rgu.ac.uk).

Content

OpenAIR currently contains 4533 outputs. Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1335100 = WALSH, S.K., LIPINA, C., ANG, S.Y., SATO, M., CHIA, L.Y., KOCAN, M., HUTCHINSON, D.S., SUMMERS, R.J. and WAINWRIGHT, C.L. 2021. GPR55 regulates the responsiveness to, but does not dimerise with, α1A-adrenoceptors. Biochemical pharmacology [online], 188, article ID 114560. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2021.114560

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1335311 = O’DOHERTY, A.F., HUMPHREYS, H., DAWKES, S., COWIE, A., HINTON, S., BRUBAKER, P.H., BUTLER, T. and NICHOLS, S. 2021. How has technology been used to deliver cardiac rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic? An international cross-sectional survey of healthcare professionals conducted by the BACPR. BMJ open [online], 11(4), article e046051. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046051

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1280515 = DUNCAN, E., COOPER, K., COWIE, J., ALEXANDER, L., MORRIS, J. and PRESTON, J. 2021. A national survey of community rehabilitation service provision for people with COVID in Scotland. F1000Research [online], 9, article 1416. Available from: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.27894.2

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1318690 = MCCONNELL, J., MCFADDEN, S., FLOYD, M., ELSHAMI, W., ABUZAID, M.M., LEISHMAN, L. and ECKLOFF, K. [2021]. Late non-physiological impacts of COVID-19 on radiography education. Radiography [online], In Press. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2021.04.006

Each School is currently linked to the following number of outputs on OpenAIR:

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Aberdeen Business School – 656
Gray’s School of Art – 273
Law School – 197
School of Applied Social Studies – 192
School of Computing – 596
School of Creative and Cultural Business – 495
School of Engineering – 670
School of Health Sciences – 213
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice – 345
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences – 721
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment – 319
Other departments – 54

Downloads

Last month, in April, there were a total of 5002 downloads from OpenAIR. The most-downloaded items were:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1000407 = OGUNNUSI, M., HAMMA-ADAMA, M., SALMAN, H. and KOUIDER, T. 2020. COVID-19 pandemic: the effects and prospects in the construction industry. International journal of real estate studies [online], 14(Special Issue 2), pages 120-128. Available from: https://www.utm.my/intrest/files/2020/11/2_Final_MS_CRES-Covid-025.pdf

• http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1030 = IBRAHIM, I.A. 2014. A theoretical and empirical investigation of the barriers to the adoption of state-of-the-art information systems by Nigerian indigenous oil companies. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1005563 = HAGEN, S., BUGGE, C., DEAN, S.G. et al. 2020. Basic versus biofeedback-mediated intensive pelvic floor muscle training for women with urinary incontinence: the OPAL RCT. Health technology assessment [online], 24(70), pages 1-144. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta24700

The above data were gathered on 26.05.2021.

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.52 – April 2021)

Welcome to the latest update on RGU’s open access institutional repository, OpenAIR. If you have any suggestions for things that you would like to see in these monthly updates, or if you have any questions about the repository service, please get in touch with the Publications Team.

News

Each month we are running an online group training session on how to record outputs in Worktribe. If you would like to be invited to a training session, please send an e-mail to the Publications Team (publications@rgu.ac.uk).

Content

OpenAIR currently contains 4473 outputs. Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/975861 = WINTER, J. 2021. Allington, Edward Thomas (1951-2017). In Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B. (eds.) Oxford dictionary of national biography. Oxford: OUP [online], article ID 90000380161. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000380161

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1205592 = GEFFEN, A., ROSENTHAL, A., FREMANTLE, C. and RAHMANI, A. (eds.). [2021]. Ecoart in action: activities, case studies and provocations for classroom and community. New York: New Village Press [online], Forthcoming. Available from: https://nyupress.org/9781613321461/ecoart-in-action/

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1280534 = IHEUKWUMERE, O., MOORE, D. and OMOTAYO, T.A. [2021]. A meta-analysis of multi-factors leading to performance challenges across Nigeria’s state-owned refineries. Applied petrochemical research [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13203-021-00272-0

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1280494 = OBIRI, K.A., OMOTAYO, T.S., BJEIRMI, B. and BOATENG, P. 2021. Long-term dynamic behaviour of human resource needs in Ghana’s oil sector: system dynamics approach. Sustainability [online], 13(6), article 3546. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063546

Each School is currently linked to the following number of outputs on OpenAIR:

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Aberdeen Business School – 655
Gray’s School of Art – 271
Law School – 196
School of Applied Social Studies – 183
School of Computing – 591
School of Creative and Cultural Business – 486
School of Engineering – 666
School of Health Sciences – 211
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice – 338
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences – 705
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment – 314
Other departments – 49

Downloads

Last month, in March, there were a total of 4993 downloads from OpenAIR. The most-downloaded items were:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1000407 = OGUNNUSI, M., HAMMA-ADAMA, M., SALMAN, H. and KOUIDER, T. 2020. COVID-19 pandemic: the effects and prospects in the construction industry. International journal of real estate studies [online], 14(Special Issue 2), pages 120-128. Available from: https://www.utm.my/intrest/files/2020/11/2_Final_MS_CRES-Covid-025.pdf

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/311066 = GUPTA, R., PANCHOLI, K., DE SA, R., MURRAY, D., HUO, D., DROUBI, G., WHITE, M. and NJUGUNA, J. 2019. Effect of oleic acid coating of iron oxide nanoparticles on properties of magnetic polyamide-6 nanocomposite. JOM [online], 71(9), pages 3119-3128. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-019-03622-5

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/346544 = SETKUTE, J. 2018. In search of digital marketing communications success: the case of oil and gas industry B2B SMEs. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

The above data were gathered on 28.04.2021.

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.51 – March 2021)

Welcome to the latest update on RGU’s open access institutional repository, OpenAIR. If you have any suggestions for things that you would like to see in these monthly updates, or if you have any questions about the repository service, please get in touch with the Publications Team.

News

If you would like to be invited to a training session on how to record your outputs in Worktribe, please send an e-mail to the Publications Team (publications@rgu.ac.uk). We hope to run group training sessions at least once a month during the lockdown, but one-to-one sessions are unlikely to resume until it becomes possible to meet on campus.

Content

OpenAIR currently contains 4426 outputs. Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1268940 = XIE, H., ZHANG, L., LIM, C.P., YU, Y. and LIU, H. 2021. Feature selection using enhanced particle swarm optimisation for classification models. Sensors [online], 21(5), article 1816. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s21051816

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1223835 = XIE, G., REN, J., MARSHALL, S., ZHAO, H. and LI, H. 2021. A new cost function for spatial image steganography based on 2D-SSA and WMF. IEEE access [online], 9, pages 30604-30614. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3059690

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1269746 = BALOGUN, Y., IYI, D., FAISAL, N., OYENEYIN, B., OLUYEMI, G. and MAHON, R. [2021]. Experimental investigation of the effect of temperature on two-phase oil-water relative permeability. Journal of petroleum science and engineering [online], In Press. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2021.108645

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1269557 = SIDDIQUE, S., LEUNG, P.S. and NJUGUNA, J. [2021]. Drilling oil-based mud waste as a resource for raw materials: a case study on clays reclamation and their application as fillers in polyamide 6 composites. Upstream oil and gas technology [online], (accepted).

Each School is currently linked to the following number of outputs on OpenAIR:

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Aberdeen Business School – 654
Gray’s School of Art – 268
Law School – 191
School of Applied Social Studies – 178
School of Computing – 584
School of Creative and Cultural Business – 485
School of Engineering – 659
School of Health Sciences – 209
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice – 338
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences – 689
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment – 312
Other departments – 46

Downloads

Last month, in February, there were a total of 3776 downloads from OpenAIR. The most-downloaded items were:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1000407 = OGUNNUSI, M., HAMMA-ADAMA, M., SALMAN, H. and KOUIDER, T. 2020. COVID-19 pandemic: the effects and prospects in the construction industry. International journal of real estate studies [online], 14(Special Issue 2), pages 120-128. Available from: https://www.utm.my/intrest/files/2020/11/2_Final_MS_CRES-Covid-025.pdf

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/346544 = SETKUTE, J. 2018. In search of digital marketing communications success: the case of oil and gas industry B2B SMEs. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/842064 = SHEDID, M. 2019. Employee empowerment and customer satisfaction: an investigation from a UAE banking-sector perspective. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

The above data were gathered on 30.03.2021.

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.50 – February 2021)

Welcome to the latest update on RGU’s open access institutional repository, OpenAIR. If you have any suggestions for things that you would like to see in these monthly updates, or if you have any questions about the repository service, please get in touch with the Publications Team.

News

If you would like to be invited to a training session on how to record your outputs in Worktribe, please send an e-mail to the Publications Team (publications@rgu.ac.uk). We hope to run group training sessions at least once a month during the lockdown, but one-to-one sessions are unlikely to resume until it becomes possible to meet on campus.

Content

OpenAIR currently contains 4331 outputs. Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1206325 = GONZALEZ, A., MABON, L. and AGARWAL, A. [2021]. Who wants North Sea CCS, and why? Assessing differences in opinion between oil and gas industry respondents and wider energy and environmental stakeholders. International journal of greenhouse gas control [online], (accepted).

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1147976 = CLEVERLEY, P.H., COUSINS, F. and BURNETT, S. [2021]. Impact of COVID-19 on search in an organisation. Journal of information science [online], Online First. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551521989531

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1205579 = ARNELL, P. and DAVIES, G. 2021. The new UK-EU extradition arrangements. Scots law times [online], 6, pages 21-23. Available from: http://westlaw.co.uk

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1205830 = ABDULLA, A. and WOODS, R. [2021]. Comparing mental contrasting with implementation intentions against solution-focused and autonomous planning. School psychology international [online], (accepted).

Each School is currently linked to the following number of outputs on OpenAIR:

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Aberdeen Business School – 645
Gray’s School of Art – 267
Law School – 186
School of Applied Social Studies – 171
School of Computing – 568
School of Creative and Cultural Business – 480
School of Engineering – 652
School of Health Sciences – 205
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice – 323
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences – 678
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment – 297
Other departments – 37

Downloads

Last month, in January, there were a total of 3329 downloads from OpenAIR. The most-downloaded items were:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1000407 = OGUNNUSI, M., HAMMA-ADAMA, M., SALMAN, H. and KOUIDER, T. 2020. COVID-19 pandemic: the effects and prospects in the construction industry. International journal of real estate studies [online], 14(Special Issue 2), pages 120-128. Available from: https://www.utm.my/intrest/files/2020/11/2_Final_MS_CRES-Covid-025.pdf

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/998637 = UCHEHARA, I., HAMMA-ADAMA, M., OBIRI, K.A., JAFARIFAR, N. and MOORE, D. 2020. Impacts and risk management of COVID-19 pandemic on real estate supply chain. International journal of real estate studies [online], 14(Special Issue 1), pages 41-53. Available from: https://www.utm.my/intrest/files/2020/11/5_Final_MS_CRES-Covid-006_Latest.pdf

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/311066 = GUPTA, R., PANCHOLI, K., DE SA, R., MURRAY, D., HUO, D., DROUBI, G., WHITE, M. and NJUGUNA, J. 2019. Effect of oleic acid coating of iron oxide nanoparticles on properties of magnetic polyamide-6 nanocomposite. JOM [online], 71(9), pages 3119-3128. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-019-03622-5

The above data were gathered on 24.02.2021.

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.49 – January 2021)

Welcome to the latest update on RGU’s open access institutional repository, OpenAIR. If you have any suggestions for things that you would like to see in these monthly updates, or if you have any questions about the repository service, please get in touch with the Publications Team.

News

If you would like to be invited to a training session on how to record your outputs in Worktribe, please send an e-mail to the Publications Team (publications@rgu.ac.uk). We hope to run group training sessions at least once a month during the lockdown, but one-to-one sessions are unlikely to resume until it becomes possible to meet on campus.

Content

OpenAIR currently contains 4290 outputs. Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1107375 = SAUNDERS, B., FARIAS DE OLIVEIRA, L., DOLAN, E., DURKALEC-MICHALSKI, K., MCNAUGHTON, L., ARTIOLI, G.G. and SWINTON, P.A. [2021]. Sodium bicarbonate supplementation and the female athlete: a brief commentary with small scale systematic review and meta-analysis. European journal of sport science [online], (accepted).

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1107087 = TEODOROWSKI, P., WOODS, R., CZARNECKA, M. and KENNEDY, C. [2021]. Brexit, acculturative stress and mental health among EU citizens in Scotland. Population, space and place [online], Early View. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2436

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1085326 = ZANINI, S., RENZI, S., LIMONGI, A.R., BELLAVITE, P., GIOVINAZZO, F. and BERMANO, G. 2021. A review of lifestyle and environment risk factors for pancreatic cancer. European journal of cancer [online], 145, pages 53-70. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2020.11.040

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1084941 = CAMACHO-MUÑOZ, D., WAACK, J., TURNER, A.D., LEWIS, A.M., LAWTON, L.A. and EDWARDS, C. 2021. Rapid uptake and slow depuration: health risks following cyanotoxin accumulation in mussels? Environmental pollution [online], 271, article ID 116400. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116400

Each School is currently linked to the following number of outputs on OpenAIR:

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Aberdeen Business School – 643
Gray’s School of Art – 267
Law School – 183
School of Applied Social Studies – 168
School of Computing – 560
School of Creative and Cultural Business – 479
School of Engineering – 643
School of Health Sciences – 201
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice – 321
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences – 670
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment – 297
Other departments – 36

Downloads

Last month, in December, there were a total of 3099 downloads from OpenAIR. The most-downloaded items were:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1005411 = BRAY, G. and MCCUTCHEON, V. (eds.) 2020. Proceedings of the 2nd Research support games day (RSGD #2), 8 December 2020, [virtual event]. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1005411

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1000407 = OGUNNUSI, M., HAMMA-ADAMA, M., SALMAN, H. and KOUIDER, T. 2020. COVID-19 pandemic: the effects and prospects in the construction industry. International journal of real estate studies [online], 14(Special Issue 2), pages 120-128. Available from: https://www.utm.my/intrest/files/2020/11/2_Final_MS_CRES-Covid-025.pdf

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/248273 = SSENDI, L.B. 2013. Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women’s micro businesses. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

The above data were gathered on 27.01.2021.

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.48 – December 2020)

Welcome to the latest update on RGU’s open access institutional repository, OpenAIR. If you have any suggestions for things that you would like to see in these monthly updates, or if you have any questions about the repository service, please get in touch with the Publications Team.

News

The Publications Team will be on a break from the end of business on Friday 18^th December through to the morning of Tuesday 5^th January. Please feel free to continue sending us e-mails as normal during that period and we will respond to them as soon as possible when we resume services in January. We hope that everyone in the RGU community is able to enjoy themselves and relax over the end-of-year break.

Content

OpenAIR currently contains 4243 outputs. Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1000290 = BLACKWOOD, J. 2020. An alloy made from art and activism, in North Macedonia. In Steinbock, E., Leven, B. and de Valck, M. (eds.) Art and activism in the age of systemic crisis: aesthetic resilience. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 7, pages 92-103. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429269189-7

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1003506 = CLARKE, J., DUFFY, F., GRANT, R., HOMMA, M., SAKAMOTO, N., MCWHINNEY, S. and TAKI, A. 2020. A story of she: collective feminist film making at home (between Japan and Scotland). Entanglements [online], 3(2) pages 97-102. Available from: https://entanglementsjournal.org/a-story-of-she-collective-feminist-film-making-at-home-between-japan-and-scotland/

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1005474 = GYASI-ADDO, J.A. and BENNADJI, A. 2020. Investigating the major causes of morphological transformations in the CBD of Accra and the impact on urban heat island intensity. In Scott, L. and Neilson, C.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 36th Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) annual conference 2020 (ARCOM 2020), 7-8 September 2020, [virtual conference]. Leeds: ARCOM [online], pages 566-575. Available from: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/archive/2020-Indexed-Papers.pdf

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1003554 = OMOTAYO, T., AWUZIE, B., EGBELAKIN, T., OBI, L. and OGUNNUSI, M. 2020. AHP-systems thinking analyses for Kaizen costing implementation in the construction industry. Buildings [online], 10(12), article ID 230. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10120230

Each School is currently linked to the following number of outputs on OpenAIR:

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Aberdeen Business School – 634
Gray’s School of Art – 265
Law School – 183
School of Applied Social Studies – 166
School of Computing – 551
School of Creative and Cultural Business – 479
School of Engineering – 640
School of Health Sciences – 199
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice – 317
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences – 666
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment – 295
Other departments – 35

Downloads

Last month, in November, there were a total of 4057 downloads from OpenAIR. The most-downloaded items were:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/840972 = ALJOHANI, A. 2019. Cost overrun causality model in Saudi Arabian public sector construction projects. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/248273 = SSENDI, L.B. 2013. Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women’s micro businesses. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/346544 = SETKUTE, J. 2018. In search of digital marketing communications success: the case of oil and gas industry B2B SMEs. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

The above data were gathered on 17.12.2020.

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.47 – November 2020)

Welcome to the latest update on RGU’s open access institutional repository, OpenAIR. If you have any suggestions for things that you would like to see in these monthly updates, or if you have any questions about the repository service, please get in touch with the Publications Team.

Content

OpenAIR currently contains 4203 outputs. Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/999762 = ANBALAGAN, A. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. [2020] An IoT based industry 4.0 architecture for integration of design and manufacturing systems. Materials Today: Proceedings [online], (accepted).

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/979052 = UPADHYAY, A., MASSIE, S. and CLOGHER, S. 2020. Case-based approach to automated natural language generation for obituaries. In Watson, I. and Weber, R. (eds.) Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 28th International conference on case-based reasoning research and development (ICCBR 2020), 8-12 June 2020, Salamanca, Spain [virtual conference]. Lecture notes in computer science, 12311. Cham: Springer [online], pages 279-294. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58342-2_18

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/996970 = ARDILA-REY, J.A., CERDA-LUNA, M.P., ROZAS-VALDERRAMA, R.A., DE CASTRO, B.A., ANDREOLI, A.L. and MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F. 2020. Separation techniques of partial discharges and electrical noise sources: a review of recent progress. IEEE Access [online], 8, pages 199449-199461. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3035249

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/996980 = OKOLIE, O., STACHUREK, I., KANDASUBRAMANIAN, B. and NJUGUNA, J. 2020. 3D printing for hip implant applications: a review. Polymers [online], 12(11), articles ID 2682. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12112682

Each School is currently linked to the following number of outputs on OpenAIR:

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Aberdeen Business School – 626
Gray’s School of Art – 262
Law School – 180
School of Applied Social Studies – 161
School of Computing – 544
School of Creative and Cultural Business – 475
School of Engineering – 612
School of Health Sciences – 187
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice – 311
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences – 656
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment – 286
Other departments – 30

Downloads

Last month, in October, there were a total of 3617 downloads from OpenAIR. The most-downloaded items were:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/346544 = SETKUTE, J. 2018. In search of digital marketing communications success: the case of oil and gas industry B2B SMEs. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/248273 = SSENDI, L.B. 2013. Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women’s micro businesses. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/842064 = SHEDID, M. 2019. Employee empowerment and customer satisfaction: an investigation from a UAE banking-sector perspective. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

The above data were gathered on 25.11.2020.

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.46 – October 2020)

Welcome to the latest update on RGU’s open access institutional repository, OpenAIR. If you have any suggestions for things that you would like to see in these monthly updates, or if you have any questions about the repository service, please get in touch with the Publications Team.

News

The Publications Team are still working from home; however, we are hoping to begin offering monthly virtual training sessions on the use of Worktribe’s Outputs module, starting in November. These sessions will be hosted on an invite-only basis, but if you are keen to sign up for one please get in touch!

Also, in case you missed it, you might be interested in reading our Open Access Week blog post. It highlights a number of resources for materials that have been made openly available and which may be useful for your studies or research.

Content

OpenAIR currently contains 4148 outputs. Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/969759 = OKE, A., OSOBAJO, O., OBI, L. and OMOTAYO, T. 2020. Rethinking and optimising post-consumer packaging waste: a sentiment analysis of consumers’ perceptions towards the introduction of a deposit refund scheme in Scotland. Waste Management [online], 118, pages 463-470. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2020.09.008

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/977774 = MARTZOUKOU, K. [2020]. Academic libraries in COVID-19: a renewed mission for digital literacy. Library Management [online], (accepted).

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/968524 = MABON, L., KAWABE, M., HUANG, Y.-C., MOLLER, L., GU, J., WAKAMORI, D., NARITA, K., ITO, T., MATSUMOTO, A., NIIZEKI, K., SUZUKI, S. and WATANABE, M. 2020. Inherent resilience, major marine environmental change and revitalisation of coastal communities in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction [online], 51, article ID 101852. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101852

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/963262 = PHILLIPS, R.H., CONNELLY, V. and BURGESS, M. [2020]. Exploring the victimization of British veterans: comparing British beliefs about veterans with beliefs about soldiers. Armed Forces and Society [online], OnlineFirst. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X20942244

Each School is currently linked to the following number of outputs on OpenAIR:

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Aberdeen Business School – 626
Gray’s School of Art – 262
Law School – 180
School of Applied Social Studies – 161
School of Computing – 544
School of Creative and Cultural Business – 475
School of Engineering – 612
School of Health Sciences – 187
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice – 311
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences – 656
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment – 286
Other departments – 30

Downloads

Last month, in September, there were a total of 2977 downloads from OpenAIR. The most-downloaded items were:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/248273 = SSENDI, L.B. 2013. Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women’s micro businesses. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/346544 = SETKUTE, J. 2018. In search of digital marketing communications success: the case of oil and gas industry B2B SMEs. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/638195 = JEBARA, T. 2019. A study of the development of frameworks of pharmacist prescribing in Qatar. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

The above data were gathered on 28.10.2020.

Open Access Week 2020

Welcome to OAW2020!

As many of you may know, towards the end of October each year we usually celebrate International Open Access Week. This event is also celebrated by many other people and institutions around the world, and it aims to raise awareness of the importance of Open Access within the research landscape.

What is Open Access?

As a reminder, Open Access means making the results of research as widely available, as easily accessible and as flexibly reusable as possible. Traditionally, research has been shared largely in the form of pay-to-read books and journals, distributed under strict copyright rules that limit what people can do with the material that they have paid to read. When something is made open access, it means that it is permanently free to read and is also accompanied by more liberal permissions for how the material can be used. You can read more about Open Access in our guide on the basics.

Open Access is incredibly important for everyone. From the perspective of researchers, it means that their work is more likely to be read, cited and used, which means that their research is likely to be more impactful. It also means that it is far easier for researchers to share their results with each other, rapidly accelerating the speed of progress in advancing knowledge and understanding of complex issues. This is why, for example, most publishers agreed to make all COVID-19 research open access (though only temporarily) – to hasten the development of a vaccine.

From the perspective of other people, Open Access makes it possible for high quality research to more easily affect practical applications, such as helping to improve fitness coaching, environmental policy or fire safety. It is particularly useful for individuals, institutions or countries with limited financial resources, who might otherwise not be able to pay for access to traditionally-published research.

What are RGU doing to celebrate OAW2020?

Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for the Publications Team to work from home, we have not been able to prepare any special events for this week – nor will we be touring the campus to hand out free food as we have done in previous years. However, we hope to use this blog post to raise awareness of Open Access within the RGU community, and to point people in the direction of some open access resources that you might find interesting or useful.

The resources below are split up into three sections: browser extensions, general databases and subject-specific databases.

Browser Extension	Description
Open Access Button	Enter the details of an article on the Open Access Button website, or simply click on the browser extension icon (on Chrome or Firefox) when viewing the page for an article. This resource will then search thousands of sources to try and find a free and legal copy of the full text for you. If it cannot find such a copy for you, it will also start a request that can be sent directly to the author of the article.
Unpaywall	Click on the browser extension icon (on Chrome or Firefox) when viewing the page for an article. This resource will then search the Unpaywall database for a free and legal copy of the full text for you.

General Database	Description
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)	The DOAB aims to increase the discoverability of open access books. You can use the DOAB website to search or browse for openly available books, linking from the directory to the publisher’s website, where you can then read the books for free!
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)	The DOAJ aims to host a curated list of high quality, peer-reviewed open access journals. You can use the DOAJ website to search or browse for open access journals and articles, linking from the directory to the publisher’s website, where you can then read the journal content for free!
EThOS	EThOS is the British Library’s database of doctoral theses written at institutions across the United Kingdom. Many of these theses are available for immediate download from the EThOS website, which harvests content from open access institutional repositories.
OpenAIR@RGU	OpenAIR is the open access institutional repository for RGU, which currently holds over four thousand outputs such as book chapters, conference papers and journal articles. While it includes some embargoed content (which will eventually become open access), most of the outputs are available for immediate download from the OpenAIR website.
OpenAIRE	Not to be confused with OpenAIR@RGU, OpenAIRE is the European repository for research, harvesting content from open access institutional repositories across Europe (including the United Kingdom). You can search the OpenAIRE Explore website for over 116 million publications, over 14 million datasets and almost 200,000 pieces of researcher-developed software, all of which are openly accessible and reusable.

Subject-Specific Database	Description
arXiv	arXiv is a database of freely-available working papers and pre-prints in various mathematics-focused fields, such as physics, computer science, quantitative finance and electrical engineering.
Free Music Archive	The FMA is a curated database of high-quality, legal audio downloads. Every audio file in the library has clear information about how it can be reused.
Nature Communications	This journal provides open access to all its contents, publishing high impact research from all areas of the natural sciences.
Wellcome Open Research	This database has been provided by the Wellcome Trust have provided this database to make it easier for Wellcome-funded researchers in various health sciences to share their results, even ahead of publication.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository	The OKR is a database of over 31,000 open access publications from the World Bank Group, on many different subjects associated with economics and international development.

We hope that you enjoy exploring these resources and reading about Open Access. If you have any questions or would like to know more about how RGU supports Open Access, please get in touch with the Publications Team and we will be happy to provide more information!

OpenAIR@RGU – monthly update (no.45 – September 2020)

Welcome to the latest update on RGU’s open access institutional repository, OpenAIR. If you have any suggestions for things that you would like to see in these monthly updates, or if you have any questions about the repository service, please get in touch with the Publications Team.

News

We wish all staff and students a positive start to the new academic year, with an especial welcome to any people for whom this will be their first academic year at RGU. The Publications Team are still working from home and we do not yet have an update on when we may be able to offer training on the use of Worktribe’s Outputs module. We are also not intending to run any events for the annual “Open Access Week” this year, as we have not had sufficient time or resources to be able to run anything online. We apologise for this continued inconvenience.

Although we will not be present on campus during Open Access Week, you can still contact us with any questions or consult our online researcher guides for various information. You may particularly want to read the following guides:

• The Basics of Open Access – for a refresher on what Open Access is all about
• Funder and REF Requirements for Open Access – for an overview of what certain key funding organisations expect from researchers
• Help with Payments for Gold Open Access – for information about the various discounts and waivers available through deals between certain publishers and the library

Content

OpenAIR currently contains 4102 outputs. Some examples of recent additions to the repository include the following:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/968513 = CAMACHO-MUÑOZ, D., FERVERS, A.-S., PESTANA, C.J., EDWARDS, C. and LAWTON, L.A. 2020. Degradation of microcystin-LR and cylindrospermopsin by continuous flow UV-A photocatalysis over immobilised TiO2. Journal of Environmental Management [online], 276, article ID 111368. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111368

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/965220 = HENDERSON, L., BAIN, H., ALLAN, E. and KENNEDY, C. 2020. Integrated health and social care in the community: a critical integrative review of the experiences and wellbeing needs of service users and their families. Health and Social Care in the Community [online], (accepted).

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/951677 = AGOURIS, I., KOUMOULLIS, H., ATHANASOPOULOS, T. and PARSON, S. 2020. The application of 3D motion analysis in surgical evaluation and training: a pilot study. British Journal of Surgery [online], 107(Sup 3): special Issue of abstracts and presentations from the Association of surgeons in training (ASiT) international surgical conference, 6-8th March 2020, Birmingham, UK, page 171. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.11642

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/962219 = MAUGHAN, P., MACFARLANE, N. and SWINTON, P. [2020]. Relationship between subjective, and external, training load variables in youth soccer players. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance [online], (accepted).

Each School is currently linked to the following number of outputs on OpenAIR:

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Aberdeen Business School – 619
Gray’s School of Art – 263
Law School – 180
School of Applied Social Studies – 161
School of Computing – 537
School of Creative and Cultural Business – 472
School of Engineering – 595
School of Health Sciences – 186
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice – 305
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences – 651
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment – 285
Other departments – 26

Downloads

Last month, in August, there were a total of 2915 downloads from OpenAIR. The most-downloaded items were:

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/311066 = GUPTA, R., PANCHOLI, K., DE SA, R., MURRAY, D., HUO, D., DROUBI, G., WHITE, M. and NJUGUNA, J. 2019. Effect of oleic acid coating of iron oxide nanoparticles on properties of magnetic polyamide-6 nanocomposite. JOM [online], 71(9), pages 3119-3128. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-019-03622-5

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/346544 = SETKUTE, J. 2018. In search of digital marketing communications success: the case of oil and gas industry B2B SMEs. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

• https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/248273 = SSENDI, L.B. 2013. Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women’s micro businesses. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

The above data were gathered on 29.09.2020.