« Cambridge Core, the new academic platform from Cambridge University Press has now launched, bringing together all CUP academic content in one place for the first time. (…) »
« Publishers who wish to provide open access publishing services based on APCs for Wellcome grantholders must commit to providing a service which meets our requirements.
(…) We recognise that relationships in the publication process are not straightforward – Wellcome has a grant-funding relationship with a researcher, who then…
« By their very nature PhD theses break new ground and advance research. They are often the first scholarly output produced by early researchers, and it makes sense to embrace new initiatives like identifiers right at the beginning of the research process. (…) »
« (…) This post examines the ways in which libraries and librarians can facilitate the work of researchers who might want to apply TDM methods to library resources, be they electronic or hard copy sources. It also advocates for librarians to be bold about the advice they give to…
« Axelle Lemaire, secrétaire d’Etat au numérique, a reçu à Londres les conclusions de la task force franco-britannique sur la donnée au service de la croissance. Ce rapport formule des recommandations opérationnelles et confirme le besoin de définir un cadre propice à la circulation et l’exploitation des données numériques.
…« Jo Johnson, secrétaire d’état à la science et aux universités, a commandité en novembre 2015 une étude indépendante sur l’excellence de la recherche : la « Stern review », dont les conclusions ont été récemment publiées.
En décembre 2014, Greg Clark (alors Minister of Universities, Science and Cities) avait…
« This post outlines some potential new issues arising for OA in the UK, and Jisc’s work in this area, arising from Brexit. It has been drafted rather quickly, and is intended as an aid for discussion, rather than anything definite or exhaustive. (…) »
« The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School is the University of Oxford’s annual training event for the Digital Humanities. Each delegate follows a week-long workshop and supplements this with additional parallel lectures, which have been filmed as part of this series. (…) »
« Cambridge University Library has released a wonderful report about the Protolib Project, an effort, its title states, at “researching and reimagining library environments at the University of Cambridge.”[1] Protolib is one of several projects by an initiative called Futurelib,
« Starting sometime this fall, the Wellcome Trust, the charity in London that has become one of the biggest nongovernmental funders of biomedical research, will launch its own open-access online journal. Publication will be limited to the thousands of scientists worldwide working on research funded by a Wellcome grant,…