Milestone -1000 datasets in Cambridge’s repository
Office of Scholarly Communication Last week, Cambridge celebrated a huge milestone – the deposit of the 1000th dataset to our repository Apollo since the launch of…
September 2017
Biting the hand that feeds – the obfuscation of publishers
Let’s not pull any punches here. We are unimpressed. Late last week HEFCE published a blog: Are UK universities on track to…
Open Access policy, procedure & process at Cambridge
Arthur Smith The Open Access policies developed and applied by the UK’s major research funders (HEFCE, RCUK and COAF) all aim to achieve one…
Researchers championing data – what works?
Here we follow up on our earlier piece “Creating a research data community”, where Rosie Higman and Hardy Schwamm discussed innovative ways…
Who is requesting what through Cambridge’s Request a Copy service?
In October last year we reported on the first four months of our Request a Copy service. Now, 15 months in, we…
Sustaining long-term access to open research resources – a university library perspective
In the third in a series of three blog posts, Dave Gerrard, a Technical Specialist Fellow from the Polonsky-Foundation-funded Digital Preservation at…
Continuing the conversation: a CRUK workshop on RDM
In May 2017 the Office of Scholarly Communication organised a workshop with Paola Quattroni from Cancer Research UK (CRUK) focusing on data…