Library Research Engagement Group blog
March 31st is World Backup Day, a day to focus on your research data and whether it is backed up securely. As a researcher, data management should be part of your everyday processes: basic principles, such as file naming and
Read moreLast week my colleague Paula wrote a blog post explaining the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) and its use by Wellcome Trust authors. Including the RRS statement in journal submissions has been part of the Wellcome policy since January 2021, so
Read moreBy Steven Vidovic (Head of Open Research & Publication Practice) & Kerry Hadaway (Head of Content Acquisitions & Discovery) This Open Access Week’s theme is It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity and we aptly brought you news of the new UKRI
Read moreThe theme for 2021 Open Access week is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”. Over the next few months academics will hear a lot about the URKI’s new open access policy which starts in April 2022. For authors who aren’t funded by UKRI it can be easy to switch
Read moreYou may have heard that UKRI have announced their new open access policy, which takes effect for journal articles submitted from 1 April 2022, and (for the first time) long-form publications such as monographs from 1 January 2024. We will
Read moreFor Open Access Week 2019 we created a short teaching session and Twitter thread using biscuits as an analogy for the different routes to open access. We are updating both for Open Access Week 2021 to reflect a significant change:
Read moreThis post will focus on research articles underpinned by funding, fully or partially, by both the Wellcome Trust and UKRI and will draw your attention to the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS). Hold on to your seats! This is complicated, but please be
Read moreOpen Access when applied to publications means that content is freely available to anyone anywhere in the world that has an internet connection. Which is great for the user, but for those writing content we know open access can be
Read moreThis year’s Open Access Week follows the recent announcement of the new UKRI open access policy. This policy has been eagerly anticipated as it has experienced its fair share of delays, in part due to recent political and public health
Read morewritten by Michael Whitton Most researchers will want to publish their research in a place where it will have impact – i.e. it will be read, and other researchers will build on and cite (reference) it in their papers. There
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