Overview

39,223 items were downloaded from GRO this month. The countries that downloaded the most were Germany, United Kingdom, and United States.

The most downloaded GRO item this month is again is FLOSSTV, a PhD thesis completed by Adnan Hadziselimovic in 2012. The three most popular items in GRO were:

FLOSSTV: Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) within participatory ‘TV hacking’ Media and Arts Practices (2012) by Adnan Hadziselimovic.
Dis-Orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music (1996), ed. by Sanjay Sharma, John Hutnyk, and Ash Sharma.
Digital Desire and Recorded Music: OiNK, Mnemotechnics and the Private BitTorrent Architecture (2011) by Andrew Sockanathan.

New in GRO This Month

Research outputs available on GRO range from book chapters to music compositions, from artworks to journal articles. Here is a small selection from the recent deposits:

Christopher French from the Department of Psychology published an article entitled “Magic and memory: using conjuring to explore the effects of suggestion, social influence, and paranormal belief on eyewitness testimony for an ostensibly paranormal event” in Frontiers in Psychology. You can read the full text here: http://research.gold.ac.uk/10934/

Mark Bishop from the Department of Computing published a catalogue essay entitled “Consciousness and Creativity” for the recent Creative Machine exhibition at Goldsmiths curated by William Latham, Atau Tanaka, and Frederic Fol Leymarie from Computing. You can read the full text here: http://research.gold.ac.uk/10857/

More about GRO Stats

We are publishing brief reports every month if you are interested in seeing GRO’s monthly upload and download activity. You can access the November report here.

Deposit Your Work

If you are an academic or a PhD student at Goldsmiths, you can deposit your research outputs on GRO. If you need any help or guidance, please email the GRO team at gro@gold.ac.uk.

Overview

The total number of records in Goldsmiths Research Online (GRO) at 31st October 2014 is 6,952. Over 100 new items were added to GRO during the month of October.

The most popular three GRO items of the month were all PhD theses. These were:

FLOSSTV: Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) within participatory ‘TV hacking’ Media and Arts Practices (2012) by Adnan Hadziselimovic.
Digital Desire and Recorded Music: OiNK, Mnemotechnics and the Private BitTorrent Architecture (2011) by Andrew Sockanathan.
Netmodern: Interventions in Digital Sociology (2011) by Christopher Brauer.

44,530 items were downloaded from GRO this month. The countries that downloaded the most were China, Germany and United States.

New in GRO This Month

Research outputs available on GRO range from book chapters to music compositions, from artworks to journal articles. Here is a small selection from the recent deposits:

Sarah Kember from Media and Communications published a paper in Journal of Visual Culture about face recognition and smart photography. In this paper, Kember looks at two of the principal algorithms of face recognition technology to demonstrate the materialization of discriminatory ways of thinking through software. You can read the paper in full here: http://research.gold.ac.uk/10827/

Rob Imrie from the Department of Sociology co-edited a book entitled Sustainable London? The Future of a Global City. “The book explores the rise of sustainable development policies in London, and evaluates their relevance and role in sustaining people and the places and environments that they live in.” (From the book description.) You can view the GRO deposit here: http://research.gold.ac.uk/10725/

As part of the Open Access Week 2014, GRO held two events in October about open access, new HEFCE policies, and the next REF assessments. The slides of these talks can be found on GRO.

Open Access and REF2020: How not to let new HEFCE rules ruin your life: http://research.gold.ac.uk/10800/

Getting the Most out of Open Access Post Award: http://research.gold.ac.uk/10785/

Deposit Your Work

If you are an academic or a PhD student at Goldsmiths, you can deposit your research outputs on GRO. If you need any help or guidance, please email the GRO team at gro@gold.ac.uk.

More about GRO Stats

We are publishing brief reports every month if you are interested in seeing GRO’s monthly upload and download activity. You can access the October report here.

Open Access can be defined as free, unrestricted online access to scholarly research material. At Goldsmiths, we are using Goldsmiths Research Online (http://research.gold.ac.uk) to deposit research outputs by Goldsmiths academics and PhD researchers.

There are many other resources for locating Open Access material online. Here is a selected list of Open Access research repository and e-book resources.

Creative Commons Search: http://search.creativecommons.org/

OAIster: a catalog of 30 million records built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide. http://www.oclc.org/oaister.en.html

arXiv: 976,730 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. http://arxiv.org/

PubMed Central: Information resource for biomedical and health researchers. http://europepmc.org/

CERN Document Server: Over 1 million documents by European Organization for Nuclear Research. http://cds.cern.ch/

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine: http://www.base-search.net/

Hathi Trust Digital Library: Millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. http://www.hathitrust.org/home

Project Gutenberg: 46,000 free e-books. http://www.gutenberg.org/

Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/

Directory of Open Access Books: http://www.doabooks.org/

Directory of Open Access Journals: http://doaj.org/

Directory of Open Access Repositories: http://www.opendoar.org/find.php

Open Access Theses and Dissertations: http://oatd.org/

Creative Commons (CC) is a licensing system that allows you to make your work open and accessible while at the same time keeping some rights.

To use Creative Commons licenses is easy: it is just a matter of indicating the type of CC license you wish to use along with your work. There is no additional procedure of registration.

Here is a list of the six main CC licenses:

CC BY (Attribution) allows others to distribute and build upon your work as long as they credit you as the original creator of the work.

CC BY-SA (Attribution-ShareAlike) allows others to distribute and build upon your work as long as they credit you as the original creator of the work and release their derivative work under an identical license.

CC BY-ND (Attribution-NoDerivs) allows others to distribute your work as long as they credit you as the original creator of the work and keep the original format of the work.

CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) allows others to distribute and build upon your work non-commercially as long as they credit you as the original creator of the work and keep a non-commercial license for their derivative work.

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) allows others to distribute and build upon your work non-commercially as long as they credit you as the original creator of the work and release their derivative work under an identical license.

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) allows others to distribute your work as long as they credit you as the original creator of the work. However, they cannot change the work, or use it commercially.

In Goldsmiths Research Online, the default license for PhD theses that are publicly accessible is CC-BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs), the most restrictive of the six main CC licenses.