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« The United Kingdom has taken a significant step forward in advancing responsible research assessment with the establishment of a National Chapter of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).
Complementary to the San Francisco Declaration on Research…

« Today we publish the first UKRN annual report, outlining some of the wide range of work done by the UKRN communities over the past year. We hope this will be a useful document both for UKRN members but also for others wanting to get a flavour of our work. It’s…

« (…) The UK Data Service has become more than the principal social science digital repository in the UK as we continue to enhance learning, research and policy development. This latest report details how we continue to lead and share best practice across the national and international research landscape, shaping and…

« Jisc released their Critical Review of Transitional Agreements in March 2024, with a webinar chaired by Ann Rossiter, Executive Director, SCONUL, to outline their key findings. The report is a  comprehensive piece of work, that goes into great depth on the enduring impact of these deals on…

« Commissioned and governed by Jisc’s strategic groups with input from Delta Think, an open access (OA) data and analytics company, this report explores the OA landscape and the particular role of transitional agreements (TAs), with the aim of gathering evidence, promoting discussion in the higher education and research sectors, and…

« Exploring practical problems and potential strategies to fund equitable OA book publishing
This SCONUL and Copim-hosted webinar, held 25th January 2024, brought together UK library leaders to share their perspectives on their library’s role in OA book funding and publishing. (…) »

« Tim Fellows is joined by Dr Alex Freeman, founder of Octopus.ac, to discuss the platform and its future developments. Together, they explore how Octopus could align with researcher incentives and positively impact research culture. (…) »

« SCONUL and RLUK welcomed today’s announcement of an agreement with Springer Nature1 as the best outcome that could reasonably have been achieved but are calling on academic colleagues to work with the library community to deliver the cultural shift needed to make academic publishing sustainable and affordable. (…) »

« The use of quantitative indicators and metrics in research assessment continues to generate a mix of enthusiasm, hostility and critique. To these we can now add growing interest in uses of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to automate assessment processes, and reduce the bureaucracy of conventional methods of peer…

« The two tertiary education sector bodies officially join forces from 4 October 2022.
(…) Following consultation with the sector and the agreement of the Department for Education, the legal status as the sector’s designated data body (DDB) for England now transfers to Jisc, managed through the newly defined data…