United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
Since 18th December 2014 the HE sector has been in thrall to the REF results, with those that did well clamouring about it and those that did less well cherry-picking the data. And clamouring about it. For the UKCoRR membership, however, REF 2014 is perhaps little more than a sideshow as we have long since…
In 2008 I was a second year doctoral student at Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA when my mentors Robin Peek and Peter Suber asked me to prepare an event at the College to celebrate the first International Open Access Day (October 14th 2008). Back then the open access movement (OA) was less well established than…
Following their consultation in the summer of last year[1] HEFCE have released their policy on open access in the post-2014 REF process. This is the third open access policy from a major UK funder in as many years and there are lot of reasons to be cheerful. HEFCE’s policy as published this morning is a…
Though the workshop was focussed specifically on EPrints software, many of the issues apply equally to other repository platforms. Also see the event blog post at http://blog.library.leeds.ac.uk/blog/roadmap/post/184 Now that we’ve got Open Access to peer reviewed research output all sewn up (well, almost!) the next challenge is associated research data and on Tuesday 15th October the…
(Warning: includes more than a little musing on CRIS vs repositories!) Last week I attended possibly the very last Institutional Web Managers’ Workshops (IWMW), my very first, at the University of Bath. From Wednesday 26th – Friday 28th June, web developers, commercial software vendors and independent consultants came together for an excellent programme that took…