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27 Sep 2017: The rapid growth of information and the numbers of people who can create it means that we need more sophisticated tools to process the news we receive.

25 Jan 2017: Who should own the copyright to your work? How you can use other people’s copyrighted material.

23 May 2017: intervening in public debate over migration, through a case study highlighting the place of the University itself as a node of exchange between people, objects, words, images and music over the

29 Sep 2017: Who should own the copyright to your work? How you can use other people’s copyrighted material.

21 Aug 2017: Introduction to Python If you are interested in learning to use the Python programming language from scratch, there are sessions for beginners. Although these are currently fully-booked please sign up to the waiting list / register your interest, so

20 Feb 2017: Join Georgina Cronin, Research Support Librarian at the Betty and Gordon Moore Library, and the OSC training team, for a series of lunchtime research sessions. Arrive at 13:00 for a free sandwich lunch; the bitesize sessions will start at 13:15 and

15 Aug 2017: Introduction to Python If you are interested in learning to use the Python programming language from scratch, there are sessions for beginners.

21 Aug 2017: Learn more about Python If you have some basic working knowledge with the Python programming language or you are beginning to manage your data fluently in other programming languages and want to learn more about Python, some data champions will be

5 Dec 2017: Dr Jane Secker and Chris Morison, creators of the hugely successful Copyright Card Game, bring their new creation to Cambridge. Looking at the world of scholarly communication this interactive game aims to offer librarians a better understanding of

13 Jun 2017: An event by the Betty & Gordon Moore Library Since its foundation in 2012, Wikidata, the database attached to Wikipedia, has grown steadily. It started life as an index to all Wikipedias, across hundreds of languages. It has become one of the most

15 Aug 2017: Learn more about Python If you have some basic working knowledge with the Python programming language or you are beginning to manage your data fluently in other programming languages and want to learn more about Python, some data champions will be

13 Jun 2017: An event by the Betty & Gordon Moore Library This session will open with a talk and Q&A session exploring Wikidata, ContentMine, and WikiCite. The talk will cover how Wikidata relates to the systematic text mining of the scientific literature, as

26 Jun 2017: The nature of research is changing. What is the potential of text & data mining (TDM)to impact on this? How are researchers today using TDM to cope with the ever-increasing amount of information available? Are funder and publisher policies adapting

24 Nov 2017: This course will be delivered by the University’s Research Governance and Integrity Officer and will introduce researchers to research integrity and ethics at Cambridge.

12 Apr 2017: This is a friendly introduction to Github – a free and open source platform that can help you build projects that are collaborative, well documented, and version-controlled. In this workshop we will introduce you to the Github ecosystem and help

14 Mar 2017: The Netherlands has been frontrunner in the transition to Open Science. The Dutch government has mandated all universities to have 100% Open Access to academic publications by 2024 and has recently broadened its scope to research data. These plans

14 Mar 2017: The Netherlands has been frontrunner in the transition to Open Science. The Dutch government has mandated all universities to have 100% Open Access to academic publications by 2024 and has recently broadened its scope to research data. These plans

1 Mar 2017: The Office of Scholarly Communication invites you to a workshop to discover how you can make peer review count for your research. Can't make the workshop? Watch the live-stream here from 10:00 on Thursday 30 March - simply select to 'Enter as Guest'

15 Feb 2017: Please join us for a workshop, hosted by the Office of Scholarly Communication in collaboration with the Center for Open Science, to learn easy, practical steps to increase the openness and reproducibility of your work. This hands-on workshop is

19 Jun 2017: This talk is part of the PublicHealth@Cambridge series. The unstructured and ambiguous nature of language in public health literature is a barrier to the accessibility and discovery of information. Sophia Ananiadou is Professor of Computer Science

2 Mar 2017: The FAIR Data Principles are a hot topic in research data management. Their adoption within the H2020 funding programme means researchers now have to pay much more attention to how their share, publish and archive their data. In this light, how can

20 Jan 2017: The YEAR Network will organise a series of webinars starting in spring 2017. The webinars will provide you with compact and clear information on issues concerning all young/early-career researchers. The two first topics will be “How to effectively

13 Jun 2017: An event by the Betty & Gordon Moore Library Is Wikipedia a reliable source of information? What can you do to help make it better? In this session we will have a talk and Q&A session to discuss these questions and more. We will explore the histor

25 Jan 2017: PREVENT RESEARCH DISASTERS THROUGH GOOD DATA MANAGEMENT How much data would you lose if your laptop was stolen? Have you ever emailed your colleague a file named 'final_final_versionEDITED'? Do you know what your funder expects you to do with your

20 Feb 2017: We can all remember a great orator or presenter, someone who can hook you on an idea within seconds and hold you there. You will undoubtedly have to give a presentation or make a speech, probably in the near future - so why not be great at it? Simon

25 Jan 2017: Repositive invite you to join them for a seminar in which Professor Rolando Rodrigez will share his approaches in leading his efforts to develop a nation-wide infrastructure for sharing of clinical data. He will describe Cuba’s national eHealth

20 Jul 2017: PREVENT RESEARCH DISASTERS THROUGH GOOD DATA MANAGEMENT How much data would you lose if your laptop was stolen? Have you ever emailed your colleague a file named 'final_final_versionEDITED'? Do you know what your funder expects you to do with your

14 Aug 2017: The Research Data Policy Framework was published in April 2015. The archived version is also available. The Research Data Policy Framework is not the only policy with relevance to datasets and research data management.

4 Sep 2017: PREVENT RESEARCH DISASTERS THROUGH GOOD DATA MANAGEMENT How much data would you lose if your laptop was stolen? Have you ever emailed your colleague a file named 'final_final_versionEDITED'? Do you know what your funder expects you to do with your

20 Jan 2017: The YEAR Network will organise a series of webinars starting in spring 2017. The webinars will provide you with compact and clear information on issues concerning all young/early-career researchers.

15 Feb 2017: Explore issues surrounding journal subscriptions by the University: What are the principles that should be used to decide whether to start or to renew journal subscriptions? How should we balance payment for subscriptions, for open access papers and

6 Mar 2017: Are your students confused by copyright? Do you struggle to find the answers to their questions? You are not alone! This final session of our Librarian Toolkit series on helping researchers to publish, this workshop will deal with common copyright

29 Sep 2017: Join us for the third in our series exploring resources to help with the process of publishing your research - from recording observations to editing to peer review. For the first time, this event focuses exclusively on research taking place in the

20 Feb 2017: CUP regret that this event will not take place today as the speaker is unwell. A talk by Anna Whiting with Cambridge University Press Anna Whiting is Senior Commissioning Editor for medicine books and has worked in both books and journals publishing

25 Jan 2017: The H3ABionet Seminar co-ordinating team on behalf of the H3ABioNet Research Working Group invite you to join the January 2017 H3ABioNet seminar under the theme of: “Access to personal genomes”. The seminar talk will be provided by Dr Manuel

2 Mar 2017: LEARN cordially invites you to its end-of-Project Conference, Managing the Data Deluge: roles and responsibilities for your institution. The use and sharing of research data has the potential fundamentally to change the way research is undertaken

3 Mar 2017: Are your students confused by copyright? Do you struggle to find the answers to their questions? You are not alone! This final session of our Librarian Toolkit series on helping researchers to publish, this workshop will deal with common copyright

30 Oct 2017: David Carr and Robert Kiley from the Wellcome Trust are coming to Cambridge to talk with researchers about the Trust’s policy on data, software and materials management and sharing, which was released in July 2017. They will give short talks about

19 Jul 2017: Join the OSC for a discussion of Open Access issues relevant to HASS librarians The Open Access message has been geared towards sharing academic outputs like journal articles and their underlying data as well as being mandated by funders but how do

6 Mar 2017: 'Dear esteemed author…' So-called predatory publishers regularly approach researchers via email to solicit manuscripts and conference papers. With the emphasis on publishing as a measure of academic success still strong it can be easy to give in

28 Apr 2017: Paola Quattroni from Cancer Research UK coming to run a workshop on 11th May. This is a really good opportunity to influence the Cancer Research UK data policy and give feedback to your funder about the changes you would like to see. Paola will give

6 Mar 2017: So much choice, so little time! With the growth in both traditional and online publishers choosing the best place to share their work is becoming an increasingly complex decision for researchers. The first in our Librarian Toolkit series on helping

19 Jun 2017: How much data would you lose if your laptop was stolen? Have you ever emailed your colleague a file named 'final_final_versionEDITED'? Have you ever struggled to import your spreadsheets into R? As a researcher, you will encounter research data in

29 Sep 2017: Join us for the fourth in our series exploring resources to help with the process of publishing your research in STEM disciplines - from recording observations to editing to peer review. This session offers the chance to learn about available tools

29 Sep 2017: The first in our series of PhD Workhops aimed at researchers in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Would you like to share your research findings with the international academic community, without paywall restrictions? Would you like to boost

25 Jan 2017: Confused by copyright? You are not alone! Copyright involves much more than checking how much you are photocopying, but it can be difficult to know where to start. Join the Office of Scholarly Communication as we answer your copyright queries,

4 Jan 2017: The second in our series exploring resources to help with the process of publishing your research in STEM disciplines - from recording observations to editing to peer review. This session offers the chance to learn about available tools and options

29 Sep 2017: Confused by copyright? You are not alone! Copyright involves much more than checking how much you are photocopying, but it can be difficult to know where to start. Join the Office of Scholarly Communication as we answer your copyright queries,

6 Mar 2017: Getting published is just the first step… Getting academic output published is a great accomplishment for any researcher but it’s not the end of the story. Promoting and sharing their work in a variety of ways can help to increase the impact of

19 Dec 2017: The Research Data Management Facility (RDMF) is part of the Office of Scholarly Communication. Its activities are overseen and guided by a number of groups and sub-groups. The Open Research Steering Committee The Open Research Steering Committee was