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…
This theses break out session centred on the work done by ETHoS and developments in non-text theses. Sara Gould from ETHoS, presided over a number of interesting metrics carried out by the ETHoS team. What is clear from the statistics is that the majority of theses held in EThoS (around 96% of all UK theses)…
Dominic Walker Research Publications Manager, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Paul Richards (Senior Policy Advisor, UKRI) and Claire Fraser (Senior Policy Advisor, Research England) provided an update on UKRI’s review of its open access policies, providing an opportunity for feedback on the developments to date as well as time the attendees to…