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Enriching the institutional scholarly record: Octopus outputs in repositories via Publications Router
Written by Dr Alexandra Freeman, Tim Fellows, Dr Agustina Martínez-García Researchers at universities across the country are constantly being reminded that when they publish work in journals (or elsewhere) they have to deposit…
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The Data Picture
I was recently named one of “the next generation of [library] leaders” as part of the CILIP 125, having been recognised as an individual who contributes energy and knowledge to improving and impacting…
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Rights retention: publisher responses to the University’s pilot
The University’s one-year rights retention pilot has been running for six months now, during which time many papers containing the rights retention declaration have been submitted by Cambridge authors. As expected, the Office…
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Thoughts on the new White House OSTP open access memo
Dr. Samuel A. Moore, Scholarly Communication Specialist, Cambridge University Libraries In the USA last Thursday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced its decision to mandate public access to all…
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Rights Retention Pilot
This interview is reposted with agreement from the sOApbox blog. It is one of a series of blog posts outlining how different institutions are introducing rights retention policies to support their researchers in…
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Open Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Two Working Groups
This piece by Dr. Meg Westbury (Librarian, Haddon Library) and Dr. Matthias Ammon (Research Support Librarian, Germanic Languages & Film) introduces the work of the open research workings groups in the humanities and…
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Open access success stories: interview with Dr. Jacqui Stanford
For this post, Katherine Burchell talks to Dr Jacqui Stanford about the success of her open access doctoral thesis: Identities in Transition: theorising race and multicultural success in school contexts in Britain. The…
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Informing the Elsevier negotiations: Dominic Dixon on the work of the Data Analysis Working Group
As part of our series of posts on the Elsevier negotiations, Dominic Dixon, Research Librarian at Cambridge University Libraries, explains the work of the library’s Data Analysis Working Group to access, understand and…
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How might we reduce our dependency on legacy publishers such as Elsevier?
To coincide with our first townhall event on the Elsevier negotiations, Professor Stephen Eglen offers his perspective on the University’s future relationship with the publishing industry. Prof. Eglen is Professor of Computational Neuroscience…
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Staff introduction: Dr. Samuel Moore, Scholarly Communication Specialist
I am delighted to have joined the Office for Scholarly Communication here at Cambridge and wanted to post a brief introduction about my previous work in scholarly communication and the vision I have…
