United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
Around 60 people from across the UK attended members’ day on the 10th September. We are very grateful to the British Library for providing the venue and sponsoring the refreshments and lunch. The feedback has been very positive with some useful suggestions for how we could improve the next members’ day. For example, by and icebreaker at…
One of the breakout groups at members’ day was on ‘ supporting funder policies’. Around 16 people attended this group and we had a wide ranging discussion that covered the implications of Plan S to the management of tracking open access payments. The clear messages that came out from this discussion were that we would…
We were very fortunate to have five very good lightning presentations at members’ day. Nancy Pontika at the Open University started us off by talking about some research she had started around the future of scholarly communication professionals. Over an eighteen month period (March 2015 – September 2017) Nancy has collected job adverts relating to open access. The aim…
This post was originally posted on Unlocking Research by Dr Danny Kingsley, reblogged here under the terms of CC-BY Well now there is a plan. The second meeting of the Scholarly Communication Professional Development Group was held on 9 October in the Jisc offices in London. This followed on from the first meeting in June about…
Kyle Brady of the University of St Andrews here expands on his popular presentation from our recent UKCoRR members day in the below post: In July I attended the UKCoRR Members Day and delivered a presentation on the subject of approaching publishers for permission from the perspective of someone working in open access/repository support. The…