United Kingdom Council of Open Research Repositories
Posted on behalf of Nancy Pontika, UKCoRR External Liaison Officer and Open Access Aggregation Officer for CORE The role of the repository manager is constantly evolving. The repository manager of today needs to be aware and interpret not only their affiliated institution’s open access policies, but also the national and international ones that emerge from…
Recently there was a discussion on the UKCoRR mailing list around whether institutions implementing CRIS (Current Research Information System) like Pure (formerly Atira, now owned by Elsevier) might retire their repositories in favour of a single system. Other CRIS systems include Converis (now part of Thompson Reuters) and Symplectic Elements (part of Digital Science’ portfolio)…
Guest post by Pablo de Castro, Open Access Project Officer, LIBER A new Gold OA funding initiative has been launched earlier this year by the European Commission: the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot. This initiative, which is being implemented under the OpenAIRE2020 project, will use its EUR 4m budget to fund OA publishing fees for publications…
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…
In the previous post Network effects: on alternative metrics I presented the top 10 articles by altmetric for repository downloads in April 2015 as recorded by IRUS-UK. This is a quick post on how to do it for any set of DOIs. IRUS-UK provides a rich data set currently comprising 84 UK repositories with a…