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Milestone -1000 datasets in Cambridge’s repository
Last week, Cambridge celebrated a huge milestone – the deposit of the 1000th dataset to our repository Apollo since the launch of the Research Data Facility in early 2015. This is the culmination…
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Biting the hand that feeds – the obfuscation of publishers
Let’s not pull any punches here. We are unimpressed. Late last week HEFCE published a blog: Are UK universities on track to meet open access requirements? In the blog HEFCE identified the key issues in meeting…
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Open Access policy, procedure & process at Cambridge
The Open Access policies developed and applied by the UK’s major research funders (HEFCE, RCUK and COAF) all aim to achieve one thing: freedom of knowledge for all. However, the specific mechanisms these…
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Researchers championing data – what works?
Here we follow up on our earlier piece “Creating a research data community”, where Rosie Higman and Hardy Schwamm discussed innovative ways of researcher engagement with research data management. This blog discusses the…
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Who is requesting what through Cambridge’s Request a Copy service?
In October last year we reported on the first four months of our Request a Copy service. Now, 15 months in, we have had over 3000 requests and this provides us with a…
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Sustaining long-term access to open research resources – a university library perspective
In the third in a series of three blog posts, Dave Gerrard, a Technical Specialist Fellow from the Polonsky-Foundation-funded Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge project, describes how he thinks university libraries might…
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Continuing the conversation: a CRUK workshop on RDM
In May 2017 the Office of Scholarly Communication organised a workshop with Paola Quattroni from Cancer Research UK (CRUK) focusing on data sharing policy and practices. It was a great opportunity for the funder to…
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What I wish I’d known at the start – setting up an RDM service
In August, Dr Marta Teperek began her new role at Delft University in the Netherlands. In her usual style of doing things properly and thoroughly, she has contributed this blog reflecting on the…
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Summer camp – the scholarly communication way
Growing up, a diet of B-grade movies gave the impression of American summer camps as places where teenagers undertake a series of slapstick events in the wilderness. That may indeed be the case…
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Next steps for Text & Data Mining
Sometimes the best way to find a solution is to just get the different stakeholders talking to each other – and this what happened at a recent Text and Data Mining symposium held in the…