17/07/2018
« Over the last five years the use, and abuse, of metrics in research assessment has been in sharp focus, with three major frameworks – the San Francisco Declaration on Research…
17/07/2018
« The publication of the Commons Science and Technology Committee’s (STC) report into research integrity has confirmed what we already know:…
16/07/2018
« Whilst take-up of open access (OA) in the UK is growing rapidly due partly to a number of funder mandates, managing the complexities of balancing compliance with these mandates against…
03/07/2018
« The British Library, working with a group of cultural and memory organisations, is piloting a shared repository service for research content built on an open source platform. The repository aims…
15/06/2018
« Sixty one per cent of research outputs known to be in scope for the REF 2021 are meeting open access deposit, discovery and access requirements, with a further twenty per…
11/06/2018
« Every year, Jisc asks UK HEIs to provide details of the individual article processing charges (APC) transactions they’ve made throughout the year using a standardised template. This…
18/05/2018
« LSE has unveiled a new open access publishing platform in partnership with Ubiquity Press.
‘LSE Press’, managed through the LSE Library, will provide a platform for high quality, open access…
17/05/2018
« A new report outlines how Springer Nature has been able to deliver rapid growth in gold open access (OA) articles in the UK. (…)
The rapid growth in UK…
25/04/2018
« (…) This article will provide a status update on OA negotiations in the UK in the context of the UK’s progress towards OA. It will look at some of the…
29/03/2018
« One of the Jisc Research Data Champions, who is also a Research Data Champion at the University of Cambridge, Annemarie Eckes, writes about the results of a survey that she…