Welcome to the Unlocking Research blog
This blog is maintained by the Office of Scholarly Communication based in the University of Cambridge Library and the University Research Office. Blogs cover many topics as follows:
+ Scholarly communication
- Image Copyright and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities – 25 October 2019
- Chasing cash cows in a swamp? Perspectives on Plan S from Australia and the USA – 24 October 2019
- Engagement, infrastructure and roles: themes at #ScholComm19 – 30 May 2019
- Multiplicity, the unofficial theme of Researcher to Reader 2019 – 4 March 2019
- Plan S – links, commentary and news items – 10 February 2019
- 2018 – That was the year that was – 25 January 2019
- Book Review: Scholarly Communication – what everyone needs to know® – 18 December 2018
- Turn on, tune in, tweet out – experiments in engagement – 10 December 2018
- The Plan S conversation continues – 24 September 2018
- Relax everyone, Plan S is just the beginning of the discussion – 12 September 2018
- Most Plan S principles are not contentious – 12 September 2018
- ‘No free labor’ – we agree. – 26 June 2018
- 2017 – That was the year that was – 22 January 2018
- Summer camp – the scholarly communication way – 22 August 2017
- Next steps for Text & Data Mining – 17 August 2017
- How to get the most out of modern peer review – 4 April 2017
- ‘Be nice to each other’ – the second Researcher to Reader conference – 27 February 2017
- 2016 – That was the year that was – 17 January 2017
- Taking a Principled stance – the Scholarly Commons – 22 September 2016
- Lifting the lid on peer review – 19 July 2016
- Watch this space – the first OSI workshop – 24 April 2016
- The value of embracing unknown unknowns – 11 March 2016
- ‘It is all a bit of a mess’ Observations from Researcher to Reader conference – 18 February 2016
- What does a researcher do all day? – 1 February 2016
- Could the HEFCE policy be a Trojan Horse for Gold OA? – 25 January 2016
- 2015 – That was the year that was – 11 January 2016
- Half-life is half the story – 16 October 2015
- Archiving webpages – securing the digital discourse – 3 October 2015
- What is ‘research impact’ in an interconnected world? – 25 September 2015
- Dutch boycott of Elsevier – a game changer? – 3 July 2015
+ Open Research
- Open Research at the University of Cambridge: What have we done so far? – 22 October 2019
- Hot topics – research integrity and open research – 31 May 2018
- Perspectives on the Open future – 27 March 2018
- Sustaining long-term access to open research resources – a university library perspective – 11 September 2017
- Sustaining open research resources – a funder perspective – 26 July 2017
- Open Research- Who should pay? – 26 June 2017
- Reflections on Open Research – a PI’s perspective – 22 June 2017
- Open at scale: sharing images in the Open Research Pilot – 8 May 2017
- Open Research Project, first thoughts – 8 March 2017
- We are going OPEN – the Open Research experiment has begun! – 8 February 2017
- Walking the talk – reflections on working ‘openly’ – 25 October 2016
- Could Open Research benefit Cambridge University researchers? – 3 August 2016
- The case for Open Research: solutions? – 2 August 2016
- The case for Open Research: does peer review work? – 19 July 2016
- The case for Open Research: reproducibility, retractions & retrospective hypotheses – 14 July 2016
- The case for Open Research: the authorship problem – 12 July 2016
- The case for Open Research: the mis-measurement problem – 11 July 2016
- Software Licensing and Open Access – 21 October 2015
- Openness, integrity & supporting researchers – 12 October 2015
+ Open Access
- Embarking on a career in open access – 25 October 2019
- Open Access monographs: Reflections from our recent symposium – 23 October 2019
- Searching Open Access: steps towards improving discovery of OA in a less than 100% OA world – 21 October 2019
- A Fast-Track Route to Open Access – 23 April 2019
- Orpheus, an Open Source solution for journal policies – 22 January 2019
- Blood: In short supply? – 26 October 2018
- Where are we now? Cambridge theses deposits one year in – 25 October 2018
- What do you want, and why do you want it? An update on Request a Copy – 24 October 2018
- Text and data mining services: an update – 23 October 2018
- Cambridge Open Access spend 2013-2018 – 22 October 2018
- Ten years on and where are we at? COASP 2018 – 24 September 2018
- arXiv and REF – together at last? – 25 July 2018
- Cambridge’s RCUK/COAF Open Access spend January 2017 – March 2018 – 18 June 2018
- Compliance is not the whole story – 14 June 2018
- What’s new in OA? – 4 June 2018
- Manuscript detectives – submitted, accepted or published? – 27 March 2018
- Scare campaigns, we have seen a few – 15 March 2018
- The ‘restricting choice of publication’ threat – 13 March 2018
- It’s hard getting a date (of publication)– 27 October 2017
- Flipping journals or filling pockets? Publisher manipulation of OA policies – 26 October 2017
- Choosing from a cornucopia: a digitisation project – 25 October 2017
- How open is Cambridge? 2017 edition – 23 October 2017
- Biting the hand that feeds – the obfuscation of publishers – 18 September 2017
- Open Access policy, procedure & process at Cambridge – 18 September 2017
- Who is requesting what through Cambridge’s Request a Copy service? – 12 September 2017
- Whose money is it anyway? Managing offset agreements – 30 June 2017
- Cambridge RCUK Block Grant spend for 2016-2017 – 22 May 2017
- 2016 – that was the year that was – 17 January 2017
- Are we achieving our OA goals? – 3 November 2016
- Mission Open Access: the Apollo repository launches – 27 October 2016
- How open is Cambridge? – 27 October 2016
- Theses – releasing an untapped resource – 26 October 2016
- Hybrid open access – an analysis – 24 October 2016
- Who is paying for hybrid – 24 October 2016
- An open letter to Blood – 24 October 2016
- Request a copy: uptake and user experience – 7 October 2016
- Request a copy: process and implementation – 7 October 2016
- Milestone – 10,000th article processed by OA Service – 5 October 2016
- Cambridge University spend on Open Access 2009-2016 – 16 September 2016
- Press embargoes – a threat from the shadows – 20 May 2016
- Promoting Open Access in a department – what works – 7 March 2016
- Is CC-BY really a problem or are we boxing shadows? – 3 March 2016
- Open Access around the world – 23 October 2015
- Where to from here? Open Access in Five Years – 22 October 2015
- A Day in the Life of an Open Access Research Adviser – 19 October 2015
- It’s time for open access to leave the fringe – 27 August 2015
- A review of the RCUK review of implementation of its OA policy – 26 March 2016
- Cambridge expenditure on APCs in 2014 – 26 March 2015
+ Research Data Management
- Towards widespread Open Research: insights from Cambridge Data Champions and beyond – 16 September 2019
- Cambridge Data Champions – reflections on an expanding community and strategies for 2019 – 19 June 2019
- Cartooning the Data Champions – 11 January 2019
- Lessons learned from Jisc Research Data Champions – 2 October 2018
- In Conversation with the Wellcome Trust – sharing & managing research outputs – 26 January 2018
- How do you know if you’re achieving cultural change? – 18 December 2017
- From data curators to intellectual entrepreneurs: observations from IFLA – 15 December 2017
- Engaging Researchers with Good Data Management: Perspectives from Engaged Individuals – 15 December 2017
- Benchmarking RDM Training – 9 October 2017
- Milestone – 1000 datasets in Cambridge’s repository – 21 September 2017
- Researchers championing data – what works? – 15 September 2017
- Continuing the conversation: a CRUK workshop on RDM – 7 September 2017
- What I wish I’d known at the start – setting up an RDM service – 24 August 2017
- Open resources – who should pay? – 26 June 2017
- Strategies for engaging senior leadership with RDM – IDCC discussion – 5 May 2017
- The art of software maintenance – 29 January 2017
- ‘Paperless research’ solutions – Electronic Lab Notebooks – 29 January 2017
- Electronic lab notebooks – a report from a SLA meeting – 12 January 2017
- Creating a research data community – 30 November 2016
- Making the connection: research data network workshop – 16 September 2016
- Championing RDM training – 14 September 2016
- Beyond compliance – dialogue on barriers about data sharing – 12 September 2016
- Show me the money – the path to a sustainable Research Data Facility – 8 May 2016
- Forget compliance. Consider the bigger RDM picture – 8 March 2016
- Cambridge perspective on Jisc RDM Shared Services – 7 March 2016
- Sharing personal/sensitive data – 29 February 2016
- Charities’ perspective on research data management and sharing – 5 February 2016
- In conversation with Wellcome Trust and CRUK – 5 February 2016
- Time to act together? – 16 December 2015
- Open Data – moving science forward or a waste of money & time? – 27 November 15
- The purpose, practicalities, pitfalls and policies of managing and sharing data in the UK – 20 October 2015
- In conversation with Michael Ball from the BBSRC – 19 October 2015
- Joint response on draft UK Concordat on Open Research Data – 2 October 2015
- Data sharing – Build it and they will come – 24 August 2015
- In conversation with Ben Ryan from EPSRC – 21 May 2015
- Data Management – One size does not fit all – 14 May 2015
- Benchmarking the Cambridge RDM program – 28 April 2015
- Good news stories about data sharing? – 20 April 2015
- Interview with Nigel Shadbolt on The Life Scientific – 14 April 2015
+ Library and training matters
- Opening Up the Research Support Ambassadors – 24 October 2019
- Having Information to Hand: Research Support Handy Guides – 19 March 2019
- Moving online: training librarians in 2018 – 8 January 2019
- In their own words: working in scholarly communication – 26 October 2018
- So, what is it really like to work in research support and scholarly communication? – 2 October 2018
- New to OA? Top tips from the experts – 20 August 2018
- Observations on a data gathering project – 26 June 2018
- Skills in scholarly communication – needs & development – 23 March 2018
- Developing the staff of the future: training librarians in 2017 – 26 January 2018
- Plans for scholarly communication professional development – 27 November 2017
- Planning scholarly communication training in the UK – 15 August 2017
- Libraries’ role in teaching the research community – LILAC2017 – 27 April 2017
- Shifting sands: notes from UKSG2017 workshop on skills – 12 April 2017
- “Become part of the research process” – observations from RLUK2017 – 30 March 2017
- Service Level Agreements for TDM – 30 March 2017
- Where did they come from? Educational background of people in scholarly communication – 9 March 2017
- Further developing the library profession in 2016 – 17 January 2017
- Changing roles and changing needs for academic librarians – 29 November 2016
- Are academic librarians getting the training they need? – 26 October 2016
- Consider yourself disrupted – notes from RLUK2016 – 14 March 2016
- Research Support Ambassadors – an insider’s view – 14 December 2015
- Research Support Ambassadors – a progress update – 14 December 2015
- Disruptive innovation: notes from SCONUL winter conference – 28 November 2015
- Libraries of the future – insights from a talk by Lorcan Dempsey – 6 June 2015
- Evolution of Library Ethnography Studies – notes from talk – 18 March 2015