United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
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…
“No one can read everything. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these altmetrics reflect the broad, rapid impact of scholarship in this burgeoning ecosystem. We call for more…