« Research England grants £650,000 to help build Octopus into a new global service for scholarly communication.
Funding has been agreed to help develop a ground-breaking global service which could positively disrupt research culture for the better.
Announced today by the science minister, Amanda Solloway, Octopus Publishing Community Interest…
« UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) new policy will increase opportunity for the findings of publicly funded research to be accessed, shared and reused.
Following extensive consultation with the sector, UKRI has published a single Open Access Policy for research publications that acknowledge funding from its councils.
UKRI’s updated…
« cOAlition S – an international consortium of research funding and performing organisations committed to implementing Plan S – warmly welcomes the publication of the updated UKRI Open Access (OA) policy and its explicit commitment to full and immediate Open Access.
Key aspects of the updated UKRI policy includes:
Zero embargoes.…
« The annual report and accounts encompass all nine of UKRI’s constituent research councils and has been laid before parliament.
It contains the performance report, which details a number of significant milestones and achievements for UKRI. (…) »
« (…) UKRI have recently announced that they have implemented the ORCID reviewer recognition feature in their grants management system, Je-S. (…) This means that UKRI reviewers can get recognition for their review contribution “without compromising the anonymity and confidentiality of the review process”. This is the first example globally of…
« UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Wellcome and Jisc are among the first organisations supporting the establishment of a new body called Open Access Switchboard.
The switchboard will help the research community transition to full and immediate open access…
« UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has developed a new feature in its current funding systems to recognise formally the contributions of UKRI reviewers via ORCID, a unique identifier tool for individuals.
The implementation of ORCID reviewer recognition went live today (23 November 2020). It will enable UKRI review contributions…
« UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today launched a consultation as part of its Open Access Review. The consultation will inform the development of a new open access policy, aimed at ensuring that the published outputs of research are widely and freely accessible to all. (…)
Who should respond?
Responses…
« An independent report makes a series of recommendations to support greater transparency in the communication of open access publishing prices and services.
The report, published today Tuesday 14 January 2020, forms part of a project led by consultancy Information Power, and commissioned by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and…
« This report presents the findings of the International Landscape Study of Research and Innovation Systems, commissioned by Research England and carried out by Technopolis.
Technopolis has studied the institutional assessment and funding systems for research-performing organisations in 20 research active countries, with three headline study questions: what research assessment…
