« We are delighted to announce the launch of the first of our planned multi-lingual sites of the Open Library of Humanities multidisciplinary journal. Visitors to the journal’s homepage, https://olh.openlibhums.org/, will now be able to select English or French, including all of the journal’s information as well…
« Kudos (www.growkudos.com), the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, is pleased to announce that it is now partnered with Jisc Collections to provide a standard agreement for all UK universities. The agreement will simplify the procurement process and assure best pricing for UK…
« The relatively new exception to copyright law that we enjoy in the UK, permitting text and data mining (TDM) for the purposes of non-commercial research, offers potential to further knowledge and make scientific and medical breakthroughs. Importantly, the new exception states that any contractual clause which purports to…
« Today is the deadline for those universities in receipt of an RCUK grant to submit their reports on the spend. We have just submitted the Cambridge University 2015-2016 report to the RCUK and have also made it available as a dataset in our repository.
Compliance
…« A group of research funders, sector bodies and infrastructure experts are working in partnership to promote the responsible use of research metrics.
(…) Responsible metrics can be understood in terms of the following dimensions:
Robustness – basing metrics on the best possible data in terms of…« Stuart Taylor, Publishing Director at the Royal Society, outlines why open data is an important part of scholarly scientific communication, and how a new partnership with figshare will help Royal Society journals play a more active role in making research data discoverable. (…) »
« Le rôle de l’université dans la croissance économique du Royaume-Uni a été étudié en détail et n’est plus à démontrer. En revanche, de récents facteurs politiques et économiques poussent aujourd’hui à étudier l’impact économique local qu’ont ces institutions. (…) »
« Wellcome this week has published a set of requirements for open access publications, which will come into force next spring. Jisc as well as, SCONUL, ARMA, UKCoRR and RLUK are supportive of these requirements. (…) »
« September 2016 marks the first year anniversary of the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. To celebrate, we thought we’d share some statistics about the platform and its growth! (…) »
