United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
I’m on the train, on my way back to Leeds from the 7th International Open Repositories Conference at the University of Edinburgh and though I’m disappointed not to be able to stay longer and for the céilidh this evening, I’m still able to participate remotely in the conference via Twitter and various blogs albeit on…
Bit of a rush off the train to find myself now listening to Jackie Wickham impersonating Bill Hubbard who can’t be here due to the birth of his daughter (congratulations Bill!) Bill (via Jackie) emphasising high level of repository coverage across UKHE. Effectively if research is conducted at an institution in the UK it has…
I’m very excited to be attending the 7th, though my 1st, International Conference on Open Repositories next week in Edinburgh – http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/. All four members of the committee will be there and I expect to bump into more than a few UKCoRR folk along the way. Jackie (Secretary) is also there in her role as…
UKCoRR members have contributed several articles to Catalogue & Index, the periodical of CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (ISSN: 0008-7629). Unfortunately the publication can only be accessed by CIG members; self-archiving is permitted however! Johnson, Gareth (2012) UKCoRR – At the Heart of the UK Open Access Repository Landscape. Catalogue & Index, (167). pp. 2-4. ISSN 0008-7629…
The issue of open access within academia has never been higher during the recent academic spring coupled with the publication of the PEER project results. As a consequence, like most people working in the academic scholarly communications arena, UKCoRR has been awaiting the publication of the Finch Report with heightened anticipation. Given the assemblage of stakeholders…