OA Repository Newsletter – July 2018

Thesis of the month

Creative Encounters in the Archive: Queering the Performance Collection of Eddie Ladd by Dr James Woolley draws on the field of performance studies, the practice of archiving and the critical framework of queer theory in order to argue that the practice of archiving can produce archives as sites of creative potential.


Congratulations to all our PhD and MPhil students graduating this week!

Some new full-text articles from June 2018

Salt Stress Induces Non-CG Methylation in Coding Regions of Barley Seedlings (Hordeum vulgare)Wilkinson, M. et al
The Next Great Hope: The Humanitarian Approach to Nuclear WeaponsRuzicka, Jan

Top 5 Aber articles downloaded in June 2018

Rethinking the Security DilemmaWheeler, Nicholas; Booth, Ken19
Back down to Earth : reassembling Latour's Anthropocenic geopoliticsConway, Philip13
Feature Selection based on Rough Sets and Particle Swarm OptimizationWang, Xiangyang; Yang, Jie; Teng, X; Xia, W; Jensen, Richard11
Thermal Facial Analysis for Deception DetectionAl-Rjoub, Bashar Ahmad; Zwiggelaar, Reyer10
‘In the shadow of hierarchy’: meta-governance, policy reform and urban regeneration in the West MidlandsWhitehead, Mark10

Top 5 Aber Theses downloaded in June 2018

MMORPGs: The Fairness of the Copyright-Contract approach for users?Barker, Kimberley95
Bioprospecting for Microorganisms and Enzymes with Biorefining PotentialLyons, Laura Francis88
Have recent changes in mental health legislation and policy provided any positive gains for service users in England and Wales?Swann, Stephen Paul78
No place on the shelves? Are Northern Ireland's school libraries addressing the information needs of their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students?Bridge, Sally77
Integrating Climate Change into Conservation and Management of Marine Fisheries Resources: A Study of the Sustainable Development of Marine Fisheries in NigeriaOkon, Emmanuel Edem69