Half-life is half the story
Office of Scholarly Communication This week the STM Frankfurt Conference was told that a shift away from gold Open Access towards green would mean some publishers…
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Openness, integrity & supporting researchers
Universities need to open research to ensure academic integrity and adjust to support modern collaboration and scholarship tools, and begin rewarding people…
Archiving webpages – securing the digital discourse
We are having discussions around Cambridge about the research activity that occurs through social media. These digital conversations are the ephemera of…
Joint response on the draft UK Concordat on Open Research Data
During August the Research Councils UK on behalf of the UK Open Research Data Forum released a draft Concordat on Open Research…
What is ‘research impact’ in an interconnected world?
Perhaps we should start this discussion with a definition of ‘impact’. The term impact is used by many different groups for different…
It’s time for open access to leave the fringe
The Repository Fringe was held in Edinburgh on 3-4 August. With the theme of “Integrating repositories in the wider context of university,…
Data sharing – build it and they will come
If a tree falls in the forest and no one was there to hear it, did it happen? You could ask the…
Tips for preparing and presenting online learning
This week we had a group of library staff contribute to a roundtable discussion about online training. We were lucky to have…
Dutch boycott of Elsevier – a game changer?
A long running dispute between Dutch universities and Elsevier has taken an interesting turn. Yesterday Koen Becking, chairman of the Executive Board…
Libraries of the future – insights from a talk by Lorcan Dempsey
There is no argument even from traditionalists that the library role is changing. But there is a great deal of confusion and…