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How varied and exciting the role is, with requirements (and opportunities) to develop expertise in diverse areas: communication/advocacy, copyright, systems, researcher training, project and team management, budget management…to name

There was the observation that the requirement for library qualification is moving from ‘essential’ to ‘desirable’ in job advertisements, and some are just asking for experience. ... It also implies that everyone is coming in at entry level.

The Open Access Team has tackled the sometimes tricky tasks of making sure the right version has been deposited with the correct embargo, advising on funders’ open access requirements and managing

The Open Access Team will continue to advise on the best course of action to meet funder requirements, but we may not always be able to pay APCs. ... Initially, expenditure was slow which allowed the Open Access Team to maintain a healthy balance that

If an editorial board is by its own admission prepared to make arbitrary decisions about what they will publish based on people’s location and their policy requirements rather than the

There are higher barriers for entry to new publishers – people don’t have a good second book to give away to an OA publisher. ... There are different employment practices, for example creative writers are often employed on a 0.5 contract – they are

Another concrete output is the requirement for a dedicated software management plan for each grant that involves any software development.

Institutions audit spending on research grants, they should do the same for research data and should be a requirement of holding a grant.

their funder requirements by uploading their manuscripts to our institutional repository, Apollo, without needing to apply an embargo. ... in the first year of the Wellcome Trust rights retention requirement in the absence of an institutional policy.

Once the data access committee has considered that the requirement is valid, then access can be provided. ... It is a requirement, so that everybody can reproduce the study.

Institutions need to be sustainable and require external funding to support their activities, and therefore funders and their requirements are often key drivers for institutional policy changes. ... requirements for research data management and sharing

This means that with a single action the author can publish with their journal of choice, retain more rights to their own work, use it in their teaching, meet the requirements

Through Octopus, authors retain copyright and apply a Creative Commons licence to their work; the only requirement is that published work is open access and allows derivatives.

Wellcome Trust’s requirements for data management and sharing. Sharing research data is key for Wellcome’s goal of improving health. ... Jamie explained that the main tool for the policy implementation is the new requirement for data management plans

This examined the changing perceptions of researchers to open access. While many researchers are still unaware of their funders’ open access requirements, the general perception of open access journals in the

So far we have managed to speak to 764 researchers about data sharing requirements (the numbers continue to grow). ... Many Cambridge researchers have raised questions about sharing data from collaborations – with concern that non-UK partners who do

Initially, expenditure was slow which allowed the Open Access Team to maintain a healthy balance that could guarantee funding for almost any paper which met a few basic requirements.

Understanding the requirement to provide, data, information or knowledge, to better support a decision-making team.

All of this requires close reading and interpretation of funder requirements to ensure that we are able to support our researchers in what they are required to as well as what

Initially, expenditure was slow which allowed the Open Access Team to maintain a healthy balance that could guarantee funding for almost any paper which met a few basic requirements. ... Individuals depositing their outputs in a subject repository are

The Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP) lists 80 funders with open access requirements, and the list continues to grow.

The decision was to support APCs for postgraduate researchers (PGRs) who did not have any other access to money for gold open access, and could only be spent on fully open ... They noted that this was a welcome opportunity to be able to offer something

Helpfully, the policy document makes no mention of this requirement; rather, this feature of the policy appears in the accompanying FAQs. ... The most challenging part of the COAF policy is the Europe PMC deposit requirement.

Before the meeting, I encouraged the mentee to compile a list of funders, and their funder’s data sharing requirements.

bring requirements for US researchers more closely in line with what many of our researchers already need to do as a result of e.g.

Helpfully, the policy document makes no mention of this requirement; rather, this feature of the policy appears in the accompanying FAQs. ... The most challenging part of the COAF policy is the Europe PMC deposit requirement.

The review mentioned visits to institutions and noted how long it takes for researchers to learn about open access including the requirements, expectations and processes they need to follow.

that their chosen repository meets the requirements set out in this policy.” And this is the crunch point. ... The updated HEFCE policy has addressed this:. “… we have decided to introduce an exception to the deposit requirements for outputs

a surge in retractions all stem from the requirement that researchers publish in high impact journals. ... The guidelines for reviewers and authors are here, including the requirement to “upload their raw data and laboratory log to a free and publicly

a surge in retractions all stem from the requirement that researchers publish in high impact journals. ... The guidelines for reviewers and authors are here, including the requirement to “upload their raw data and laboratory log to a free and publicly

We are hoping that we might be able to work with RLUK and funding councils to come to an agreed set of requirements that we can have endorsed by the community

In the blog HEFCE identified the key issues in meeting OA requirements as:. ... The most challenging part of the COAF policy is the Europe PMC deposit requirement.

Wellcome Trust’s requirements for data management and sharing. Sharing research data is key for Wellcome’s goal of improving health. ... Jamie explained that the main tool for the policy implementation is the new requirement for data management plans

For current theses, this permission can be incorporated into the submission process, either as part of the requirement for the PhD or by the author signing an agreement when the thesis

We are hoping that we might be able to work with RLUK and funding councils to come to an agreed set of requirements that we can have endorsed by the community

While these might seem like lofty and even admirable goals, it does not mean that the academic response to being informed of their grant requirement for sharing data have been met ... Who owns the data? This is an interesting question. EPSRC policies

In all cases, the license applied should fulfil the requirements defined by the Berlin declaration. ... The requirement for an open license is also potentially an issue for some disciplines.

If your current system is just not up to requirements, switching to a new one can be a good time investment in the long run, but it can come with its

requirements. But getting researchers to visit www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk and engage with the service is proving to be a challenge.

Understanding the requirement to provide, data, information or knowledge, to better support a decision-making team. ... Before the meeting, I encouraged the mentee to compile a list of funders, and their funder’s data sharing requirements.

As Jessica Gardner discussed on this blog, our collective ambition is to negotiate a Read-and-Publish deal with Elsevier that meets the sector’s requirements on costs and open access. ... If an editorial board is by its own admission prepared to make

The team is now trying to answer how theses fit into the Open Access research landscape, the potential impact of making theses available online, fulfilment of funder requirements.

their funder requirements by uploading their manuscripts to our institutional repository, Apollo, without needing to apply an embargo. ... in the first year of the Wellcome Trust rights retention requirement in the absence of an institutional policy.

Hence, specific OA requirements pertaining to UK-based authors will be considered in setting OA policy but will probably not be a determining factor. ... Hence, if strict requirements are introduced around OA in relation to UK funders, this may serve to

While all research is potentially affected by the HEFCE requirement to make work available, the route preferred is through placing a copy in a repository. ... Academic freedom. The discussion several times touched on the broader issue of the government

Targeting our training. RDM workshops seem to be the most common way research data teams are engaging with researchers, typically targeting postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.

25 Jun 2024: Hyperauthorship, HARKing, the reproducibility crisis, a surge in retractions all stem from the requirement that researchers publish in high impact journals. ... In the UK there is nowa href="http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/funders" target="_blank"a requirement

So far we have managed to speak to 764 researchers about data sharing requirements (the numbers continue to grow). ... Many Cambridge researchers have raised questions about sharing data from collaborations – with concern that non-UK partners who do

This way, they will fulfil their funder requirement without having to pay a penny. ... As Jessica Gardner discussed on this blog, our collective ambition is to negotiate a Read-and-Publish deal with Elsevier that meets the sector’s requirements on

However, doing nothing is no longer a valid option. If hybrid publishers are unable to commit to the Wellcome Trust’s set of requirements and do not significantly improve the quality