« RAND Europe conducted a study to explore current and future changes in the research landscape and how this may affect the nature of national research assessment. We explored the following questions and how responses to them may change in the next 5 to 10 years: (i) why assess research? (ii)…
« The world’s two biggest university presses have announced the results of a joint, global survey into the future of the scholarly monograph.
Oxford and Cambridge University Presses together carried out a large-scale survey over the summer. The survey was open to researchers in Humanities and…
« Today, leading independent think-tank Demos launches its interim report, Research 4.0: Research in the age of automation (pdf), supported by Jisc.
The report explores the development and impact of fourth industrial revolution technologies on the research sector and current state of…
« The Turing Way is a lightly opinionated guide to reproducible data science.
Our goal is to provide all the information that researchers need at the start of their projects to ensure that they are easy to reproduce at the end.
This also means making sure PhD students, postdocs,…
« A team of researchers from NaCTeM group were recently announced as the winners of an NLP challenge. Dr. Chrysoula Zerva, Dr. Minh-Quoc Nghiem, Dr. Nhung Nguyen, and Prof. Sophia Ananiadou, achieved first place in the 5th CL-SciSumm Shared Task 2019 challenge. (…) »
« This article seeks to understand how far the United Kingdom higher education (UK HE) sector has progressed towards open access (OA) availability of the scholarly literature it requires to support courses of study. It uses Google Scholar, Unpaywall and Open Access Button to identify OA copies of a random sample…
« Publisher invites academics to help shape development of its new early research and collaboration service
Cambridge University Press is to expand their provision of open research services with the launch of its own early and open content platform Cambridge Open Engage. (…) »
« (…) Neil Grindley, head of resource discovery at Jisc, said:
“We are delighted to introduce these next-generation library services, which will help researchers and librarians locate and manage print and electronic books, journals, newspapers, maps and anything else listed in library catalogues.” (…) »
« The RHS has released (29 July 2019) an interim working paper offering a preliminary mapping of current preparedness for Plan S open access implementation among UK and international ‘hybrid’ History journals. The working paper’s primary audience is scholarly editors and editorial boards, History learned societies, publishers of Humanities journals, and…
« This is an interesting question and one that early career researchers commonly ask. You’ve worked long and hard on your PhD thesis and achieved your doctorate. Congratulations! Your thesis is deposited in your institution’s open access repository and the findings are published and freely available worldwide. Can you work on…
