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 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 moreIn this post Chris Gutteridge muses on working with open Covid data to make it more understandable to the lay person. Chris works in iSolutions, the University’s computer services department. He is an open data champion who has been recognised
Read moreIf you are a researcher at the University of Southampton, you may get an email from a REF administrator asking you to upload a paper to Pure as you have been highlighted on the compliance report. Some of you may wonder
Read moreOur 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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