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…
UKCoRR welcomes the results of a recent exercise – undertaken by UK librarians, repository managers and Sherpa Services – that has shown that the results produced by SHERPA/FACT (Funders & Authors Compliance Tool) have an accuracy rate of over 95% The FACT service was developed to help researchers get a simple answer to the question…
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…
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…
In the wake of the Finch Report on the 16th July 2012 the RCUK has finally unveiled their revised Open Access policy, which brings with it a harmonization across the councils as well as introducing significant changes. The policy will apply to all qualifying publications funded entirely or in part by a RCUK source from…