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Open access: fringe or mainstream?
When I was just settling in to the world of open access and scholarly communication, I wrote about the need for open access to stop being a fringe activity and enter the mainstream…
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What questions reveal about researchers’ attitudes to Open Access
By Dr Bea Gini, Training Coordinator ‘Right, that concludes this part of the training session, are there any questions?’ I’ve asked this scores of times in the last academic year, and it’s always fascinating to…
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Research Data at Cambridge – highlights of the year so far
By Dr Sacha Jones, Research Data Coordinator This year we have continued, as always, to provide support and services for researchers to help with their research data management and open data practices. So far in 2020, we have…
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Open Access and REF 2021: “Is This Article Non-Compliant?”
By Dr Debbie Hansen, Senior Open Access Adviser, Office of Scholarly Communication Through much of this REF period, there has been a focus on encouraging Cambridge authors to deposit their accepted manuscripts into our institutional repository. …
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Open Access for Librarians: Putting Together the Puzzle
Claire Sewell, Research Support Librarian, Betty & Gordon Moore Library This Open Access week I’ve been reflecting back on my time training library staff in research support. As anyone working in this area…
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Preparing for the end of COAF
The Open Access team are getting ready for the end of Charity Open Access Fund (COAF), which is due to dissolve on 30th September 2020. From 1st October 2020 onward, there are going to be changes to the…
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Data sharing and reuse case study: the Mammographic Image Society database
The Mammographic Image Society (MIAS) database is a set of mammograms put together in 1992 by a consortium of UK academic institutions and archived on 8mm DAT tape, copies of which were made…
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Cambridge response to the UKRI open access policy review
Open access is transforming scholarly communication, and both the University and its Press are fully committed to the transition to open access publishing without embargo. It is inspiring us to think more deeply about…
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The Role of Open Data in Science Communication
Itamar Shatz has written a guest blog post for the Office of Scholarly Communication about how public trust in the scientific community increases when researchers make their data openly available to all. He…
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Clearing the final hurdle – automating embargo setting
One of the biggest issues facing the Open Access Team has been keeping up with the constant stream of accepted manuscripts that need to be processed. In many cases we receive notification of…