United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
8 February 2019 The United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (1) (UKCORR) represents about 600 library professionals and research administrators across 150 UK institutions working with and supporting open access repositories. Collectively, the members of UKCORR have significant experience in the implementation and development of national, funder and institutional open access policies. We strongly support…
These are some examples of decision trees that have been developed at UK HEIs to help inform academic staff how to make their work OA (particularly in respect to RCUK compliance) – the Oxford example is notable in that it starts from the standpoint of Green rather than Gold, in contrast to the Department of…
Following on from the last blog post made just under a month ago when I reported on the evidence given to the House of Lords inquiry into the Government’s implementation of their open access policy. UKCoRR submitted a further evidence document on open access to the House of Commons, Business Innovation and Skills Committee inquiry. The…
As I’m sure people are aware there are currently two government committee inquiries under way about the implementation of the Finch Report and on issues around the RCUK Policy on Open Access to research outputs. UKCoRR prepared a written submission as part of the inquiry and the full written submissions have been released (being updated…
This is a guest post by Pablo de Castro, UK RepositoryNet+ Consultant. Please do also take the time to complete the RepNet survey at http://ukcorr.org/events/future-events/teesside-university-friday-9th-november-2012/repnet_survey/ ________________________________________________________________ Much has been said in recent months about the Gold Rush and the financial unsustainability of a given way of planning the transition to research output dissemination through Gold…