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By Camilla Boelsgaard Lund

Your research is now visible across campus
CBS researchers publish so many interesting papers every year and we want to flaunt it.

Since the late summer, CBS Library has compiled a slide show that displays recently submitted peer-reviewed journal articles on seven screens across campus.

The first screen was fitted on the management floor in June and since then more screens have come up at the entrances to Solbjerg Plads, Kilen, Dalgas Have, Graduate House, and Porcelænshaven.

The idea is to showcase CBS research and to put a face to this research. We hope that you will embrace the extra exposure!     

By Joshua Kragh Bruhn & Lotte Risbæk Thomsen

CBS Library is currently exploring ways in which to host and/or facilitate student interaction within the library setting.  We have assigned a part of the lower ground floor in the Solbjerg Plads library to this purpose and are very determined to make it an attractive and versatile resource. As it is, CBS library boasts both high visibility across and outside campus and a beautiful setting and is a hub of student activity, mostly solitary and silent. We are not very big, however, in the way of providing space for alternative learning modes, and this is exactly what we are trying to (partly) fix with this project. 
We are still in a very preliminary and explorative phase of the project but envisage the place as a hub for a wide suit of events, including presentations, talks etc. and hope to engage with CBS PhD schools and departments/centres, student organizations, etc. to create a novel (at least in a CBS Library context) and successful type of interactive learning and/or recreational space for CBS students.

Before we proceed to an actual implementation or even design stage, however, we would like to invite any inputs that you may have. Both to gauge whether you can see yourself making use of a facility of this kind at all and, if so, to give us an idea of how best to cater for your type of events.

Some of the things we are eager to know are:

Could you see yourself at all using CBS library as a viable venue for your type of events?
Would you have any special requirements (or recommendations) in terms of facilities, both physical and technical?

We would very much appreciate any inputs you may have. Simply reply to the e-mail from which this newsletter was sent to leave your comments.

Contact: Joshua Kragh Bruhn

By Joshua Kragh Bruhn

Preparing for a literature review can be a daunting task and requires a lot of discipline on the part of the researcher. Not only does s(he) need to apply a meaningful, rigorous, and systematic search regime but s(he) also needs to somehow test for relevance and identify trends, both mainstream and novel, in the often overwhelming population of compiled data.
In many cases researchers employ reference management software like Mendeley to assist in the research process, to store and organize relevant contents in order not to lose track and to help implement a meticulous and correct referencing practice. Exploring data, however, is above and beyond what most of these tools can help accomplish.
Enter NVivo, a software created to assist in making sense of un- or semi-structured qualitative data, broadly speaking. On top of being able to handle written or spoken words in large datasets, NVivo can also exploit demographic, or meta-, data, in a scholarly context e.g. publication year and journal, to create clusters and identify trends. Furthermore, NVivo offers a wide suit of paths to explore the data, from simple word frequency analyses through elaborate text searches to highly complex matrix queries. 

And seeing that NVivo can be made to interact with most reference management software already populated by full-text and meta-data, it is a quite straightforward procedure to bring all of this information across to NVivo and thus make use of work already performed to collect the data. Once in NVivo you can cross-tabulate contents with metadata, for instance distribution across year or publisher, topics across geographies etc. and in this way get a head-start on your literature review project.

CBS Library runs NVivo seminars on a regular basis. Check out our event calendar for more details.

Contact: Joshua Kragh Bruhn or Liselotte Brandstrup

By Lene Hald & Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen

Open Access is the guarantor that publicly funded research, including their findings, is made available to not only the general public but also to organizations and private companies. What is more, many studies show that Open Access generates more citations and downloads for individual research papers.

Below you will find four examples of CBS papers published in Open Access journals in 2017:

• The Networks and Niches of International Political Economy. / Seabrooke, Leonard; Young, Kevin L. In: Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2017, p. 288-331.
• Actions and Decisions : Pragmatism Gateway to Artful Analytic Management Philosophizing. / Monthoux, Pierre Guillet de. In: Philosophy of Management, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2017, p. 279–290.
• Strategy in the Public and Private Sectors : Similarities, Differences and Changes. / Alford, John; Greve, Carsten. In: Administrative Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 4, 35, 2017.
• Senior Management Use of Management Control Systems in Large Companies. / Willert, Jeanette; Israelsen, Poul; Rohde, Carsten; Toldbod, Thomas. In: Corporate Ownership & Control, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2017, p. 58-76.

Visit CBSshare for more information on Open Access or contact Lene Hald or Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen.

By Liselotte Brandstrup

Spring term 2018 is fast approaching, which means that courses and syllabi are being planned. Did you, however, make sure that the selected readings are at all available to your students?
If not, there is still time to make sure that they are made available from the Reserve Collection.

The Reserve Collection comprises all books, both print and digital, on CBS reading lists. The print books are only available for use in the library, but your students can always check to see if we have an extra copy available for checkout.

We automatically receive reading lists submitted to the CBS bookstore. If you would like supplementary literature to be made available from the collection, just let us know and we will make that happen too. For more details or to submit a request, please contact Roland Teckemeier.  Please include information about the study programme as well as the semester that the books are needed for.