« In July 2017, the Wellcome Trust updated their policy on the management and sharing of research outputs. This policy helps deliver Wellcome’s mission – to improve health for everyone by enabling great ideas to thrive. The University of Cambridge’s Research Data Management Facility invited Wellcome Trust to Cambridge to talk…
« À un moment où la nature exacte et l’organisation des relations futures entre le Royaume-Uni et l’Union européenne sont encore incertaines, les académies des sciences d’Allemagne, de France et du Royaume-Uni, à savoir la Royal Society, la Leopoldina et l’Académie des sciences, ont réaffirmé ensemble leur confiance dans l’unité de…
« Options available to authors to make their work open access are on the rise. Adoption of open access itself is also rising, and usage of open-access materials is similarly increasing. However, alongside rising access levels another, less positive rise can also be observed: the costs of open access are increasing…
« UCL Press is launching a new open access megajournal that will provide academics and students with ground-breaking research free of charge in a move that challenges traditional commercial publishing models.
The megajournal aims to revolutionise academic publishing by slashing publication times, providing research for free to anyone with an…
« Along with the Universities of Southampton and London South Bank, EThOS and DataCite UK have been investigating if having persistent identifiers (PIDs) for both a thesis and its data would help to liberate data…
« A report commissioned by Universities UK (UUK) and conducted by UUK’s Open Access Coordination Group, including information analytics business Elsevier, the University of Sheffield, Research Consulting and Jubb Consulting, reveals that the UK is well above global averages for open access (OA).
Building…
« This independent review, carried out by Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Jérôme Pesenti reports on how the Artificial Intelligence industry can be grown in the UK.
Increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring major social and economic benefits to the UK. With AI, computers can analyse and learn…
« The recent ‘Consultation on the second Research Excellence Framework’ (REF) in the UK contains an annex that signals the extension of the open access mandate to monographs. In the service of promoting discussion, rather than prescribing a forward route, this article estimates the costs of implementing such a mandate based…
“By « open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other…
« Le physicien Stephen Hawking a décidé de rendre sa thèse accessible à tous, en donnant son accord pour l’intégrer dans la bibliothèque numérique de l’Université de Cambridge. Plus de 50 ans après sa publication, le document traitant de l’expansion de l’univers est consultable gratuitement. (…) »
