United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
This theses break out session centred on the work done by ETHoS and developments in non-text theses. Sara Gould from ETHoS, presided over a number of interesting metrics carried out by the ETHoS team. What is clear from the statistics is that the majority of theses held in EThoS (around 96% of all UK theses)…
Dominic Walker Research Publications Manager, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Paul Richards (Senior Policy Advisor, UKRI) and Claire Fraser (Senior Policy Advisor, Research England) provided an update on UKRI’s review of its open access policies, providing an opportunity for feedback on the developments to date as well as time the attendees to…
UKCORR were very fortunate that the British Library very generously agreed to host and provide lunch for members’ day again this year. This year we managed to book the whole of the Knowledge Centre for the day which enabled us to increase the number of places to 110. The day kicked off with a couple…
As usual there were a wide range of posts on the mailing list in April ranging from job vacancies, requests to complete surveys to questions on interpretation of policies and development of processes. Some highlights from the discussion included: advice for authors on the new Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy and some institutions are providing…
March’s focus is on specific aspects of compliance and copyright. The first is on eligibility of papers held in Arxiv, well known for scientific pre-prints. The problem with papers in Arxiv in terms of the REF, is which version is held there, is it the AAM? This is not simple to quantify, given not all records…