Writing an Institutional Open Research Statement

It’s been on my to-do list for a very long time to draft an institutional open research statement for Aston University. It is one of those tasks that kept getting pushed to the side when more pressing matters cropped up (like REF), only for me to be reminded at various events where speakers discussed their…

Open access is not enough: reproducible science, research and scholarship

Open access is not enough: reproducible science, research and scholarship

This is a guest post from Nick Sheppard, Open Research Advisor at Leeds University Library “Open Science is the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research…