Lutfi Bin Othman It’s time for open access to leave the fringe
Office of Scholarly Communication 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…
In conversation with Ben Ryan from EPSRC
Cambridge University hosted Ben Ryan and Amanda Chmura from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on Friday 15 May for…
Data management – one size does not fit all
As the Research Data Facilitator at the University of Cambridge, I am part of the team establishing a Research Data Management (RDM)…
Benchmarking the Cambridge RDM program
Cambridge University released its Research Data Management Policy Framework today. This is a good opportunity to assess whether Cambridge is fulfilling the…
Good news stories about data sharing?
We have been speaking to researchers around the University recently to discuss the expectations of their funders in relation to data management.…
Interview with Nigel Shadbolt on The Life Scientific
Sir Nigel Shadbolt was interviewed on ‘The Life Scientific‘ this morning on BBC Radio4 about open data. The general discussion ranged from…