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Hot topics – research integrity and open research
Research integrity is the current discussion topic at many levels in the research sector. This week, the Council of the European Union will adopt conclusions on the European Open Science Cloud, including the Open Science agenda.…
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Overcoming the Barriers: CILIP Copyright Conference
The annual CILIP Copyright Conference is a highlight in a busy conference season for those in the information profession with a responsibility for this area. Held in London on April 5th, this event brought together…
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Tales of Discovery: stories inspired by Cambridge research
Five research papers and five traditional stories were combined during Cambridge Science Festival in March 2018 to make Tales of Discovery. The session was aimed at families, to show them that there is…
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Perspectives on the Open future
‘More cash, more clarity and don’t make this compulsory’ is the take home message from a recent workshop held with Cambridge researchers on the question of Open Research. The recent session, called “An…
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Manuscript detectives – submitted, accepted or published?
In the blog post “It’s hard getting a date (of publication)”, Maria Angelaki discussed how a seemingly straightforward task may turn into a complicated and time-consuming affair for our Open Access Team. As…
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Skills in scholarly communication – needs & development
This blog post is part of the write-up of an investigation into the background of people working in scholarly communication, with a specific focus on skills. Introduction Library staff need to have a…
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Scare campaigns, we have seen a few
In a sister post, I identified the latest scare offensive in the ongoing discussions around open access as: ‘restricting choice of publication’. In this, there is an implied threat from editorial boards and…
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The ‘restricting choice of publication’ threat
When you work in the open access space, language matters. It is very easy to distract the academic community from the actual discussion at hand and we are seeing an example of this…
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In Conversation with the Wellcome Trust – sharing & managing research outputs
In July 2017, the Wellcome Trust updated their policy on the management and sharing of research outputs. This policy helps deliver Wellcome’s mission – to improve health for everyone by enabling great ideas…
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Developing the staff of the future: training librarians in 2017
2017 was an exciting year for training our library community. As well as continuing to cover the basics of research support, the OSC was able to introduce new topics and new methods of…