Living in Interesting Times?
After a busy year that has included the Finch report and a new policy from RCUK, UKCoRR Chair Yvonne Budden delivers the opening presentation of the annual meeting at Teesside University on 9th November 2012.
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Counting on IRUS
As we all know, repositories are an established component of the rapidly evolving scholarly web infrastructure in the UK and globally, and whatever the impact of Finch and the potential shift from Green to Gold, they are likely to remain a primary source of authoritative full-text versions of research outputs and, increasingly, associated data-sets as…
The train home…
I’m on the train, on my way back to Leeds from the 7th International Open Repositories Conference at the University of Edinburgh and though I’m disappointed not to be able to stay longer and for the céilidh this evening, I’m still able to participate remotely in the conference via Twitter and various blogs albeit on…
Building a national network
Bit of a rush off the train to find myself now listening to Jackie Wickham impersonating Bill Hubbard who can’t be here due to the birth of his daughter (congratulations Bill!) Bill (via Jackie) emphasising high level of repository coverage across UKHE. Effectively if research is conducted at an institution in the UK it has…
OR2012 – the 7th International Conference on Open Repositories
I’m very excited to be attending the 7th, though my 1st, International Conference on Open Repositories next week in Edinburgh – http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/. All four members of the committee will be there and I expect to bump into more than a few UKCoRR folk along the way. Jackie (Secretary) is also there in her role as…