Systematic analysis of agreement between metrics and peer review in the UK REF
Authors : Vincent Traag, Ludo Waltman When performing a national research assessment, some countries rely on citation metrics whereas others, such as the UK, pr...
Étiquette : United Kingdom
The UK Scholarly Communication Licence: Attempting to Cut through the Gordian Knot of the Complexities of Funder Mandates, Publisher Embargoes and Researcher Caution in Achieving Open Access
Authors : Julie Baldwin, Stephen Pinfield Whilst take-up of open access (OA) in the UK is growing rapidly due partly to a number of funder mandates, managing th...
Enhancing Institutional Publication Data Using Emergent Open Science Services
Authors : David Walters, Christopher Daley The UK open access (OA) policy landscape simultaneously preferences Gold publishing models (Finch Report, RCUK, COAF)...
National licence negotiations advancing the open access transition – a view from the UK
Author: Liam Earney Jisc Collections has had agreements with open access (OA) publishers since the mid-2000s. In 2014, following the UK government’s response to...
Supporting Open Access at Kent—New Staff Roles
Authors : Rosalyn Bass, Sarah Slowe Open Access has been supported at the University of Kent from an early stage with the establishment of the Kent Academic Rep...
Engaging and Supporting a University Press Scholarly Community
Authors : Megan Taylor, Kathrine S. H. Jensen In this paper we explore how the development of The University of Huddersfield Press, a publisher of open access s...
Effective Practices and Strategies for Open Access Outreach: A Qualitative Study
Author : Diane (DeDe) Dawson INTRODUCTION There are many compelling reasons to make research open access (OA), but raising the awareness of faculty and administ...