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Author: Nicki Clarkson

The Wellcome Trust: Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) in action

1st November 20211st November 2021
Nicki Clarkson
Funder Policies, Open access

Last 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

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UKRI open access publishing: from now to April 2022

27th October 202129th October 2021
Nicki Clarkson
Funder Policies, Open access, UKRI

You 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

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Open Access biscuits: which way does the cookie crumble?

26th October 202129th October 2021
Nicki Clarkson
Funder Policies, Open access, UKRI

For 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:

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Love Data Week 2021: Loving 2020 data

11th February 202111th February 2021
Nicki Clarkson
Uncategorised

The data visualisation competition we ran for Love Data Week 2020 inspired me to use local temperature data to knit a blanket charting the daily high temperature for every day in 2020. I decided which shades of yarn to use

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Open Access Week 2020: Getting the most from your ORCiD

15th October 202018th October 2020
Nicki Clarkson
Open access

Guest written by Helen Carter, Research Publication Specialist in the Faculty of Medicine Are you getting the most out of your ORCiD? if you do one thing for Open Access week 2020 19-25 October; check Pure, add/link your ORCiD and enable

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The responsible use of research metrics

13th January 202014th January 2020
Nicki Clarkson
Research metrics

Written by Michael Whitton and Nicki Clarkson Citations, journal impact factors, h-indices, even tweets and Facebook likes – there are no end of quantitative measures that can now be used to try to assess the quality and wider impacts of

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Love Data Week: Data visualisation competition

9th January 202013th January 2020
Nicki Clarkson
Data visualisation, Research data

Our team in the University of Southampton Libraries, in collaboration with the Web Science Institute, arranged an afternoon of talks from the Library of Congress in July 2019. The talks included some exciting examples of data visualisation and inspired us

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Open Access Week 2019: To pay or not to pay?

22nd October 201922nd October 2019
Nicki Clarkson
Open access

Written by Paula Sands, Site and Research Engagement Librarian, Health Services Library, University of Southampton The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”. The intention, I believe, is to get us

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Open Access Week 2019: A Very Short Introduction to Open Access Using Biscuits

21st October 201930th October 2019
Nicki Clarkson
Open access

Our first activity of Open Access Week 2019 was a 15 minute briefing for staff from the University of Southampton Library, Arts at Southampton and the Public Engagement with Research Unit, followed by questions. I am sure that the high

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Peer Review Week 2019: Quality in Peer Review

16th September 201917th September 2019
Nicki Clarkson
Peer review

When I started writing this blog post I titled it “Peer review: the good, the bad and the ugly”. Then I googled “peer review” and found that was not a clever or original title (see here and here for starters),

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