United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
As a result of the recent announcement that Jisc will cease funding of CORE from the 1st August 2023. The UKCORR Committee have sent this open letter to Jisc today. A similar letter has also been sent to UKRI, which is also replicated in this blog post. TO: Heidi Fraser-Krauss, CEO, Jisc Liam Earney, Managing…
Back in the summer of 2021 (if anyone can remember that far back), UKCORR ran two short surveys on research output repositories. The first was called Facts and Figures and asked an institutional respondent to answer a series of questions on the details of their repository (platform, length of use, etc.). The second was called…
The new UKRI open access policy, comes into place for articles next April and the new policy will enforce openness to monographs from 2024. There has been a plethora of communication across HEIs on messaging to Faculty and between UKCORR members on the best way on messaging to Faculty. The policy itself has brought up…
It’s been on my to-do list for a very long time to draft an institutional open research statement for Aston University. It is one of those tasks that kept getting pushed to the side when more pressing matters cropped up (like REF), only for me to be reminded at various events where speakers discussed their…
On 9th June the University of Reading welcomed around 90 people to its virtual Open Research Award 2021 event. This was an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate our progress with open research. The event was opened Dr Phil Newton, Research Dean for Environment and senior management champion for Open Research and followed by a…