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The use of reading to improve student transition to university - and build the wider community. A case study within two universities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baverstock, A., & Ennis, L. (2017, September). The use of reading to improve student transition to university - and build the wider community. A case study within two universities. Presented at Higher Education Institution Research

This workshop explores how two universities have collaborated to us pre-arrival shared reading to empower learners.

Increasing academic engagement with the research repository – the value of an integrated system (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramage, L., & Gibson, L. (2017, August). Increasing academic engagement with the research repository – the value of an integrated system. Poster presented at Repository Fringe 2017, University of Edinburgh

In August 2016 Edinburgh Napier rolled out their new end-to-end research management system. This allows academics self-service access to record and manage research information from project creation, costing, and post award management as well as addin... Read More about Increasing academic engagement with the research repository – the value of an integrated system.

Are we there yet? Well...not quite (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, L., Templeton, J., & Ennis, L. (2017, August). Are we there yet? Well...not quite. Poster presented at Repository Fringe 2017

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Against capital (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2017, June). Against capital. Paper presented at ReCOn, Edinburgh, UK

The ways in which scholars exchange and share their work have evolved through pragmatic responses to the political and economic contexts in which they are embedded. So rather than being designed to fulfil their function in an optimal way, our methods... Read More about Against capital.

Leganto all’Università Napier di Edimburgo (in Inglese) (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ennis, L. (2017, June). Leganto all’Università Napier di Edimburgo (in Inglese). Presented at La prossima generazione dei servizi di biblioteca in Italia

Laura illustrerà come l’Università ila soluzione per le reading list dei corsi Ex Libris Leganto per consentire alla biblioteca di giocare un ruolo centrale nell’apprendimento e nell’insegnamento.

The involvement of the speech production system in prediction during comprehension (2017)
Thesis
Drake, E. The involvement of the speech production system in prediction during comprehension. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1186244

This thesis investigates the effects in speech production of prediction during speech comprehension. The topic is raised by recent theoretical models of speech comprehension, which suggest a more integrated role for speech production and comprehensio... Read More about The involvement of the speech production system in prediction during comprehension.

Implementation of an end-to-end research management system (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramage, L. (2017, June). Implementation of an end-to-end research management system. Poster presented at ARMA annual conference

In the past 12-18 months we, at Edinburgh Napier University, have implemented an end to end research management system. We have been involved on the development of the research outputs and repository and research profiles with Worktribe Ltd in addit... Read More about Implementation of an end-to-end research management system.

Big data analytics in healthcare: A cloud based framework for generating insights (2017)
Book Chapter
Anjum, A., Aizad, S., Arshad, B., Subhani, M. M., Davies-Tagg, D., Abdullah, T., & Antonopoulos, N. (2017). Big data analytics in healthcare: A cloud based framework for generating insights. In N. Antonopoulos, & L. Gillam (Eds.), Cloud Computing (153-170). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54645-2_6

With exabytes of data being generated from genome sequencing, a whole new science behind genomics big data has emerged. As technology improves, the cost of sequencing a human genome has gone down considerably increasing the number of genomes being se... Read More about Big data analytics in healthcare: A cloud based framework for generating insights.

InOt-RePCoN: Forecasting user behavioural trend in large-scale cloud environments (2017)
Journal Article
Panneerselvam, J., Liu, L., & Antonopoulos, N. (2018). InOt-RePCoN: Forecasting user behavioural trend in large-scale cloud environments. Future Generation Computer Systems, 80, 322-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.05.022

Cloud Computing has emerged as a low cost anywhere anytime computing paradigm. Given the energy consumption characteristics of the Cloud resources, service providers are under immense pressure to reduce the energy implications of the datacentres. For... Read More about InOt-RePCoN: Forecasting user behavioural trend in large-scale cloud environments.

The Digital Library (2017)
Journal Article
Ennis, L. (2017). The Digital Library. Teaching Fellows Journal,

The meteoric rise of the internet has meant that we have access to more information than ever. Our informational lives, and those of our students are complex – fraught with issues of access, immediacy, discoverability, and quality. Increasingly, to b... Read More about The Digital Library.

Efficient service discovery in decentralized online social networks (2017)
Journal Article
Yuan, B., Liu, L., & Antonopoulos, N. (2018). Efficient service discovery in decentralized online social networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, 86, 775-791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.04.022

Online social networks (OSN) have attracted millions of users worldwide over the last decade. There are a series of urgent issues faced by existing OSN such as information overload, single-point of failure and privacy concerns. The booming Internet o... Read More about Efficient service discovery in decentralized online social networks.

Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6) (2017)
Data
Lawson, S. (2017). Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6). [Data]. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4542433.v6

This dataset contains payments made by UK higher education institutions for access to academic journals from eight publishers in 2015 and 2016. The data was obtained by sending Freedom of Information requests to 153 institutions through the website w... Read More about Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6).

Using Ultrasound Speech Imaging to Investigate Within- and Cross-Language Interference in Word Production (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Corley, M., Drake, E., & Knight, S. (2017, May). Using Ultrasound Speech Imaging to Investigate Within- and Cross-Language Interference in Word Production. Presented at Abstraction, Diversity and Speech Dynamics

Much psycholinguistic research into language production focuses on naming latencies: That is the time between the presentation of a stimulus and the recording of the onset of acoustic sound. Motor variability is treated as “noise” by-condition diffe... Read More about Using Ultrasound Speech Imaging to Investigate Within- and Cross-Language Interference in Word Production.

Strengthening Library connections in Moodle. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ennis, L., & Bruce, S. (2017, April). Strengthening Library connections in Moodle. Presented at MoodleMoot Ireland and UK 2017

The reading list is traditionally recognised as a collation of printed materials or a list of titles in a module descriptor, but a transition from printed collation to digital collections has been quietly taking place in libraries and universities fo... Read More about Strengthening Library connections in Moodle..

Access, ethics and piracy (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2017, April). Access, ethics and piracy. Paper presented at UKSG 40th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Harrogate, UK

Ownership of intellectual property rights for a large proportion of the scholarly record is held by publishers, so a majority of journal articles are behind paywalls and unavailable to most people. As a result some readers are encouraged to use pirat... Read More about Access, ethics and piracy.

How Can Pre-Arrival Shared Reading Build a University Community? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baverstock, A., Morris, W., Ennis, L., & Moulton, J. (2017, March). How Can Pre-Arrival Shared Reading Build a University Community?. Presented at London International Book Fair Insights Seminar Series

Research tells us that involvement in reading for pleasure has positive outcomes. Similarly, research tells us that the earlier new students feel welcome in their university the more likely they are to stay and complete their degree. This presentatio... Read More about How Can Pre-Arrival Shared Reading Build a University Community?.