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Love Data Week and EUI ResData for preservation and sharing research data outputs

By Thomas Bourke on February 12, 2019

The 4th international Love Data Week takes place from 11 to 15 February to raise awareness of data management plans; data management during research projects; data protection and copyright; data preservation and repositing; open data sharing; and data management in EU Horizon 2020. EUI ResData is a solution for preserving and sharing research data outputs. To submit a dataset for inclusion, please complete this online form. Library staff will generate metadata to describe the dataset, and make an appointment for data transfer…

When presenting datasets for reposit, it is important to include documentation and, where applicable, data code.
The EUI Guide to Good Data Protection Practice in Research provides information on data protection, database copyright and ethical use.

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EUI Library launches access to SAGE Research Methods platform and eBooks

By Thomas Bourke on January 8, 2019

From the 1st of January, EUI members have access to SAGE Research Methods providing access to eBooks and tools in support of all aspects of social science methodology. The platform provides full-text, searchable access to the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (QASS) series; the Qualitative Research Methods series; and other works on social science research. The Methods Map can be used to navigate methods, concepts and techniques. The Project Planner is a step-by-step guide to starting, developing and completing a research project.

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EUI Library in 2018

By Federica Signoriello on December 18, 2018

The Library by night

2018 has been a busy year for the EUI Library: we prepared this infographic to show you how we did.

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Launch of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

By Thomas Bourke on November 23, 2018

The European Open Science Cloud Portal was launched on 23 November 2018. The new EOSC Portal facilitates discovery of data and resources; processing and analysis; research data management; computation; storage; networking; training and security. To mark the launch of the EOSC Portal, the European Commission issued two supporting documents: Prompting EOSC in Practice which explains the governance of the new ecosystem, and; Turning FAIR into Reality which provides an overview of requirements to fulfill the goal of making research data ‘Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.’ EOSC has six components…

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Europe Daily Bulletin (English version, 1979-1999) now available online

By Monica Steletti on October 31, 2018

The EUI Library is pleased to announce the end of the first part of the digitisation project of Agence Europe Daily Bulletin, 1979-1999, in English. The second part of the digitisation of Europe Bulletin Quotidien in French covering the years 1953-1999 will be available in 2019. In July 2018, Agence Europe and the European University […]

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William Klinger’s thesis in Open Access

By Federica Signoriello on October 18, 2018

Rijeka (Croatia), CC0 Creative Commons License

On 31 January 2015, when the life of William Klinger was tragically taken in New York, he was only 42. William was an alumnus of the History and Civilisation Department, where he graduated in 2007 with Prof. Raffaele Romanelli as supervisor. He was the husband of Francesca and the father of two children. His EUI […]

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