« John McNaught, deputy director of NaCTeM, gave a talk at the Text and Data Mining Symposium at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday 12th July 2017
A blog has been published which provides a summary of the event and the various talks that were…
« Sometimes the best way to find a solution is to just get the different stakeholders talking to each other – and this what happened at a recent Text and Data Mining symposium held in the Engineering Department at Cambridge.
The attendees were primarily postgraduate students and early career researchers,…
« Britons could obtain more control over what happens to personal information under proposals outlined by the government. (…)
The proposals are part of an overhaul of UK data protection laws drafted under Digital Minister, Matt Hancock. (…) »
« Birkbeck’s Centre for Technology and Publishing is pleased to announce the open-source release of its software for academic publishing. “Janeway” is a press and journal system designed for open-access publishing that is free to download, use, and modify. (…) »
« Tony Hey charts the progress of the US and UK Open Science movement
(…) Nobel laureate Ken Wilson called computation the “third paradigm” of scientific research, where computational science does not replace the paradigms of theory and experiment but requires scientists to learn new and different skills. These include…
« This dynamic, innovative, evolving and open platform publishes contributions connected to the AHRC/British Library project, The Academic Book of the Future, which has been investigating key aspects of scholarly publishing for the last two years, led by a team of academics from UCL and Kings College London. The platform, which…
« This House of Commons briefing paper answers some frequently asked questions about international and EU students in the UK. It sets out statistics in this area and outlines policy issues including the potential impact of Brexit and the net migration target on international and EU student recruitment. (…) »
« Our new report: Changing publishing ecologies: A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing maps the rise of new university presses and academic-led presses in the UK. (…) »
« An interim website has been launched today by UK Research & Innovation – www.ukri.org.
The site will be a source of news and information about the development of UK Research & Innovation ahead of its formal creation in April 2018.
UK Research & Innovation will…
« (…) The British Library’s six purposes define everything that we do and explain the enduring ways in which the funding we receive helps deliver tangible public value. By fulfilling each of these purposes we aim to achieve our wider objective of making our intellectual heritage available to everyone, for research,…
