Support for research at TU Delft

Researchers at Dutch institutions of higher education are placing ever-growing demands on the field of computing power, networking services and data storage facilities. Access to a high quality, low threshold ICT infrastructure has become a prerequisite to do research. As such, the need for suitable support in order to simplify access for...

One more time ‘altmetrics @ TU Delft’ – this time with data -

The TU Delft Library strives to contribute to the increased visibility of the researchers beyond the obvious publication strategy thereby contributing to the mission of the university: bringing science to society. Alternative metrics make part of these endeavours. TU Delft Library and the Department of Maritime and Transport Technology are...

Alternative metrics at Dutch university libraries

The role of a librarian at many universities and research institutions has changed and is still changing. For most libraries a common thread is the knowledge flow and technological innovations in order to support the researchers in augmenting their academic output, academic visibility and impact. A challenge for the Library however, is how to...

Building a 'data repository' for heterogenous technical research communities through collaborations

The paper describes the project ‘3TU.Datacentrum’, an initiative of the libraries of the three Dutch Technical Universities. Its aim is to build a data curation facility for the improvement of data management, providing data curation services for data producers of the Technical Universities and enabling data reuse. The libraries initiated this...