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.
Category: 2012
State of the Nation: Finch, RCUK, OA and more
In the months since UKCoRR first blogged about the Finch Report and the new RCUK policy, discussions have been (and still are) raging about both the report and the policy and whether it presents the best way forward for the UK as a whole. Open Access is seeing an increase in the level of media attention and institutions have begun…
Three Perennial Questions
As an administrator for an institutional repository with both full-text and metadata only records, there are three questions that I return to again and again: How to increase deposits of full-text? Is linking to an open access copy as good as hosting a copy? How careful should I be about copyright? I haven’t found definitive…
Have We Not Heard the Chimes at Midnight?
This will be my final Captain’s log in charge of the USS UKCoRR (or should that be HMS UKCoRR?), and I thought I’d mark the occassion with a few remarks. So if the assembled crew would forgive my indulgance for a few moments, I’d like to reflect a little on what’s going through my mind…
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…