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Engagement, infrastructure and roles: themes at #ScholComm19
Dr Beatrice Gini, the Office of Scholarly Communication’s new Training Coordinator, recently attended the inaugural Scholarly Communication Conference at the University of Kent. In this post she reviews the main themes and discussions from…
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A Fast-Track Route to Open Access
In the last two years, since the REF 2021 open access policy came into force, the Open Access Team has received an ever increasing number of manuscript submissions for archiving in Apollo, Cambridge’s…
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Having Information to Hand: Research Support Handy Guides
If there is one thing I’ve learnt over the last few years of training library staff it’s that they really love a handout! Whether it contains extra information or a copy of the…
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Multiplicity, the unofficial theme of Researcher to Reader 2019
For the past four years at the end of February, publishers, librarians, agents, researchers, technologists and consultants have gathered in London for two days of discussions around the concept of ‘Researcher to Reader’.…
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Plan S – links, commentary and news items
The discussions around Plan S are voluminous. On 8 February 2019, the opportunity to provide feedback on Plan S closed. We were attempting to maintain a list of commentary and news stories on Plan…
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2018 That Was The Year That Was
In what has now become a tradition, we are sending out our annual summary of the activities of the Office of Scholarly Communication. Our first year, in 2015, the summary was a stock…
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Orpheus, an Open Source solution for journal policies
As anyone who administers an institutional repository can tell you, repeatedly looking up journals’ policies and attributes is a pain in the neck. We have discussed this problem a few times, noting in…
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Cartooning the Data Champions
Clair Castle, Librarian at the Department of Chemistry, describes how during her secondment to the Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) as Research Data Coordinator, she collaborated with Clare Trowell, Data Champion and Marshall…
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Moving online: training librarians in 2018
As we move into 2019 it is a good time to look back at another year spent training the library community, both in Cambridge and more widely. Over the last 12 months, the…
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Book Review: Scholarly Communication – what everyone needs to know®
As we wind down towards the last days of 2018, thoughts go to gifts for family and friends. Here, as our last minute gift idea to you, is a book that should be…