08.01.2025
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27.11.2024
Octopus.ac integrates with UK government database to enhance collaboration between policy and academia
« The new feature automatically updates the Octopus platform with government priorities to transform how researchers and policymakers collaborate. (…) »05.11.2024
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone: the changing landscape of UK learned society publishing
« This study draws on a longitudinal dataset of 277 UK learned societies covering the period 2015–2023 to provide evidence-based insights…08.10.2024
London Economics’ Report for Universities UK: The economic impact of higher education, teaching, research and innovation
« We commissioned London Economics to assess the impact of the UK higher education sector’s teaching, research and innovation activities on…31.05.2024
Copim’s initial reflections on the REF 2029 open access policy for longform publications
« A collectively authored response by the Copim community, in which we welcome the principle of open access by…16.04.2024
UK Launches National Chapter of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) « RoRI joins the new UK National Chapter of CoARA »
« The United Kingdom has taken a significant step forward in advancing responsible research assessment with the establishment of a National…08.04.2024
First UK Reproducibility Network Annual Report
« Today we publish the first UKRN annual report, outlining some of the wide range of work done by the UKRN…08.04.2024
UK Data Service Annual Report for 2022-23
« (…) The UK Data Service has become more than the principal social science digital repository in the UK as we…22.03.2024
SCONUL’s response to JISC’s Critical Review on Transitional Agreements
« Jisc released their Critical Review of Transitional Agreements in March 2024, with a webinar chaired by Ann…07.03.2024
A review of transitional agreements in the UK
« Commissioned and governed by Jisc’s strategic groups with input from Delta Think, an open access (OA) data and analytics company,…26.02.2024
Copim and SCONUL webinar, 25 January 2024
« Exploring practical problems and potential strategies to fund equitable OA book publishing This SCONUL and Copim-hosted…22.08.2023
Research talk: Positively disrupting publishing with Octopus [podcast]
« Tim Fellows is joined by Dr Alex Freeman, founder of Octopus.ac, to discuss the platform and its future developments. Together,…23.05.2023
[SCONUL – RLUK] Libraries call on academic colleagues to help shift to full open academic publishing
« SCONUL and RLUK welcomed today’s announcement of an agreement with Springer Nature1 as the best outcome that could reasonably have…15.12.2022
Machine learning, metrics and merit: the future of research assessment
« The use of quantitative indicators and metrics in research assessment continues to generate a mix of enthusiasm, hostility and critique.10.10.2022
Jisc and HESA confirm merger
« The two tertiary education sector bodies officially join forces from 4 October 2022. (…) Following consultation with the sector…21.07.2022
The launch of Octopus: the new primary research record [vidéo]
« We need to break down the barriers that block access to research, to remove the hierarchies and change the incentives…04.07.2022
Open Educational Resources in the UK
« I was recently asked to speak at the sherif event Open Educational Resources: a viable solution? I…30.06.2022
[UK Government] Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents
« The Government has published its response to its consultation on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence Following this…02.05.2022
La Politique de libre accès du l’UKRI 2021
« En août 2021, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) a publié une politique organisationnelle de…29.04.2022
Octopus: A new way to open and transparent research
« (…) Octopus is an innovative new open science platform created by Dr Alexanda Freeman that is…24.03.2022
Jisc response to the Elsevier open access agreement
« UK universities have reached a three-year agreement with Elsevier providing both unlimited open access publishing and access to paywalled journal…10.03.2022
UKRI Open Access Policy Information and Good Practice Sharing Event [vidéo]
« On 24 February 2022, #UKRI held…28.02.2022
A new approach to supporting scholarly communications: announcing the open access community framework (OACF)
« Supporting the transition to open access (OA) requires a multi-pronged approach. A key consideration for Jisc and UK…06.01.2022
UKRI: ARCHER2 high performance computing
« UKRI’s latest investment, ARCHER2, which became operational in 2021, is the UK’s most powerful supercomputer yet – putting world-leading capabilities…03.11.2021
Five Things You Need to Know about UKRI’s New Open Access Policy
« The long-awaited Open Access (OA) policy from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the UK’s leading research…06.10.2021
Octopus: creating a new primary research record for science
(…) What is Octopus and how will it help disrupt research culture? Octopus will create a new ‘primary research…25.08.2021
Jisc licence subscriptions manager goes live for Liverpool University Press Opening the Future initiative
« Liverpool University Press (LUP) and the COPIM project are pleased to announce a partnership…11.08.2021
UKRI Open Access Review: consultation analysis
« In August 2021, UKRI announced a new open access policy for publications that acknowledge funding from UKRI or any of…09.08.2021
UKRI: Funding agreed for a platform that will change research culture
« Research England grants £650,000 to help build Octopus into a new global service for scholarly communication. Funding has been…06.08.2021
UKRI announces new Open Access Policy
« UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) new policy will increase opportunity for the findings of publicly funded research to be accessed,…19.07.2021
PNAS announces “Publish-and-Read” agreement with Jisc
« The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is pleased to announce a two-year transformational open access (OA) pilot…21.06.2021
UK PID Consortium: Cost-Benefit Analysis
« This report was commissioned by Jisc in early 2021, as part of their multi-year programme exploring how persistent identifiers (PIDs)…02.06.2021
UKRN position on academic publishing
« The UK higher education sector has invested approximately £1bn in academic publishing over the last decade (i). In our view,…07.04.2021
Cambridge University Press announces 129 new Open Access publishing agreements with US institutions
Cambridge in massive expansion of Open Access agreements in the US Role as university press to promote sustainable…03.12.2020
UK collaborates with new body to accelerate global open access
« UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Wellcome and Jisc are among the first organisations…24.11.2020
ORCID reviewer recognition for UKRI reviewers
« UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has developed a new feature in its current funding systems to recognise formally the contributions…02.11.2020
Open identifiers for open research: building a national strategy for PID adoption in the UK
(…) The goal is to take existing networks to the next level, by exploring how the UK research community can…project-freya.eu, Christopher Brown, Josh Brown, Alice Meadows, 29 octobre 2020
21.10.2020
Cambridge University Press seeks Transformative status across its journals in major commitment to Open Access
« Cambridge University Press will request the majority of its journals be given Transformative Journal status by cOAlition S as part…09.10.2020
Making Europe a leader in AI: in conversation with Venki Ramakrishnan, Antoine Petit and Martin Stratmann
« An international interactive online event organised by the Royal Society, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the…01.10.2020
Transitioning to Open Access: An Evaluation of the UK Springer Compact Agreement Pilot 2016–2018
« This article analyzes the UK’s first “read and publish” journals agreement. The Springer Compact Agreement pilot ran from 2016 to…crl.acrl.org, Mafalda Marques, Graham Stone, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.81.6.913
23.09.2020
RoRI and FAIRsFAIR to partner on ‘FAIRware’ initiative | Funders across UK, Europe and Canada join forces to develop new open research tools
« The European Commission’s FAIRsFAIR project and the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) will partner on a new initiative to build…17.08.2020
Universities will cancel deals with publishers if they don’t respond to current financial pressures – warn major sector bodies
« A price freeze on journal subscriptions will not be enough to avoid UK researchers losing access to key academic content, warn three major sector bodies representing academic…19.05.2020
Webinar: Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service
« This introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to hear about finding data from the UK Data Service. Participants…07.05.2020
Developing a persistent identifier roadmap for open access to UK research
« This report was prepared as part of Jisc’s work in response to Prof. Adam Tickell’s recommendation “Jisc to lead on…06.04.2020
Cambridge University Press launches open research platform, Cambridge Open Engage
« Cambridge Open Engage, the early and open content and collaboration platform from Cambridge University Press, has…06.04.2020
Towards a National Collection
« The British Library is part of a new £19 million national programme – Towards a National…25.02.2020
First US–based university press signs Jisc transitional open access agreement for UK higher education
« The Jisc agreement provides participating UK institutions with unlimited Immediate Open Access publishing in Rockefeller University Press journals. The agreement…13.02.2020
UKRI launches consultation on Open Access policy
« UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today launched a consultation as part of its Open Access Review. The consultation will…28.01.2020
Article 13: UK will not implement EU copyright law
« Universities and Science Minister Chris Skidmore has said that the UK will not implement the EU Copyright Directive after the…27.11.2019
Universities unite in high-level strategy group to govern negotiations with publishers
« Universities UK has convened a new group to support and enhance the mandate of Jisc in…26.11.2019
British Library Shared Research Repository launched in beta
« (…) The Shared Repository, currently a beta service, brings together the openly available research outputs produced by staff and research…20.11.2019
ORCID IDs in Research Data Management workflows at the University of Cambridge
« Tying a researcher’s work to their online identity, unambiguously, universally and persistently is a perennial problem. At the University of…04.11.2019
Cambridge University Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC): Open Access monographs: from policy to reality – October 2, 2019 [vidéos]
« One-day symposium for Cambridge researchers and support staff organized by Cambridge University Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC), incorporating talks,…25.10.2019
Universities UK: Updated concordat must be followed if research is to be trusted
« Universities UK, together with signatories to the concordat including UK Research & Innovation and Wellcome Trust, has reaffirmed its pledge…08.10.2019
UUK open access monographs group:: Open access and monographs evidence review
« This report presents new evidence on academic book publishing in the UK, and puts forward a set of stakeholder…07.10.2019
The changing research landscape and reflections on national research assessment in the future
« RAND Europe conducted a study to explore current and future changes in the research landscape and how this may affect…02.10.2019
Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press find that the monograph continues to play a crucial role for researchers
« The world’s two biggest university presses have announced the results of a joint, global survey into…01.10.2019
New report explores impact of automation on UK research
« Today, leading independent think-tank Demos launches its interim report, Research 4.0: Research…19.09.2019
Alan Turing Institute – The Turing way
« The Turing Way is a lightly opinionated guide to reproducible data science. Our goal is to provide all the…07.08.2019
NaCTeM announced as the winners of NLP challenge on scholarly discourse and summarisation
« A team of researchers from NaCTeM group were recently announced as the winners of an NLP challenge. Dr. Chrysoula Zerva,…07.08.2019
The Impact of Open Access on Teaching—How Far Have We Come?
« This article seeks to understand how far the United Kingdom higher education (UK HE) sector has progressed towards open access…mdpi.com, Elizabeth Gadd, Chris Morrison, Jane Secker, 1 août 2019
05.08.2019
Cambridge announces open research platform, Cambridge Open Engage
« Publisher invites academics to help shape development of its new early research and collaboration service Cambridge University Press is…31.07.2019