United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
This is a guest post from Nick Sheppard, Open Research Advisor at Leeds University Library “Open Science is the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research…
Kyle Brady of the University of St Andrews here expands on his popular presentation from our recent UKCoRR members day in the below post: In July I attended the UKCoRR Members Day and delivered a presentation on the subject of approaching publishers for permission from the perspective of someone working in open access/repository support. The…
Guest post by Pablo de Castro, Open Access Project Officer, LIBER A new Gold OA funding initiative has been launched earlier this year by the European Commission: the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot. This initiative, which is being implemented under the OpenAIRE2020 project, will use its EUR 4m budget to fund OA publishing fees for publications…
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…
Natalia Madjarevic from the London School of Economics describes the experience of installing the EPrints REF2014 plugin in LSE Research Online. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ My presentation at the UKCoRR annual meeting focussed on our experience of installing the EPrints REF2014 plugin in LSE Research Online. The repository will be the main source of bibliographic data for the…