United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
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…
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…
It was a great privilege and an honour to be invited to participate in the DRF9 conference, which took place at the Pacifico conference centre in Yokohama, Japan on Wednesday November 21st 2012. I had been invited attend to give presentations in two different capacities – firstly in my capacity as External Liaison Officer for…