United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
UKCORR were very fortunate that the British Library very generously agreed to host and provide lunch for members’ day again this year. This year we managed to book the whole of the Knowledge Centre for the day which enabled us to increase the number of places to 110. The day kicked off with a couple…
As usual there were a wide range of posts on the mailing list in April ranging from job vacancies, requests to complete surveys to questions on interpretation of policies and development of processes. Some highlights from the discussion included: advice for authors on the new Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy and some institutions are providing…
March’s focus is on specific aspects of compliance and copyright. The first is on eligibility of papers held in Arxiv, well known for scientific pre-prints. The problem with papers in Arxiv in terms of the REF, is which version is held there, is it the AAM? This is not simple to quantify, given not all records…
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…
Starting this year, we will be posting a monthly summary on some of the main topics from the mailing list. You can keep up to date on lots more through our twitter account, @ukcorr . You can become a member of UKCORR and have full access to the mailing list by contacting UKCORR-DISCUSSION-request@jiscmail.ac.uk , you…