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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.

Qualifications outside LIS. A small number of respondents do not hold qualifications in LIS but hold or are working towards postgraduate qualifications in other subjects. ... This was a larger percentage than those who had studied LIS at either

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

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

Figure 3 Complete skill list. Almost all of the respondents had some level of either undergraduate or postgraduate education, with 71% either holding or working towards a postgraduate qualification in library

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

At Cambridge University, the Open Access team offers a centralised service to help our researchers make their work open access and comply with their funder requirements.

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

grounds of funder requirements. ... Data Stewards are not appointed as researchers, although research experience (at least a PhD degree) is a job requirement.

meet requirements of REF 2021 open access policy and the post by the Executive Chair of Research England David Sweeney, Open access – are we almost there for REF?.

We are scoping the technical requirements for automating these processes. A new requirement at Cambridge for the deposit of digital theses means there will be three different processes because requests for

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.

Stuart,. I can understand that viewpoint, but from the researcher perspective this is only a problem because of the funder requirements.

The policy gives researchers a route to make the accepted version of their papers open access without embargo under a licence of their choosing (subject to funder requirements). ... when a journal moves unexpectedly out of a read and publish agreement or

Now the Wellcome Trust is moving towards proactively supporting Open Research beyond enforcing their compliance 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.

Quick win: minimum requirements for making shared data useful. A requirement that, as a minimum, three key elements should be made available with publications – the raw data, the source code and ... One easy solution is to nudge researchers towards

So a further question arises: can/should a rights assignment for the period after the author’s death also be included or considered a requirement of the publishing contract in these

Embargoes and Rights Retention. The UKRI currently have clear requirements for dates by which research articles should be open access: 6 months for STEM, and 12 months elsewhere.

To do this, select an appropriate repository, adhere to any ethical/legal requirements, follow discipline-specific standards and make your data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).

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 initial requirement was to deliver a training on research data management to their local communities.

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

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.

Figure 3 Complete skill list. Almost all of the respondents had some level of either undergraduate or postgraduate education, with 71% either holding or working towards a postgraduate qualification in library

. Unlocking Research. Open Research at Cambridge.. Menu. Search for:. Thoughts on the new White House OSTP open access memo. Dr. Samuel A. Moore, Scholarly Communication Specialist, Cambridge University Libraries. In the USA last Thursday, the White

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

The third selection was tendering and live demos. Data storage, security and compliance requirements. ... A committee was formed to identify the requirements of three disparate groups: IT and records management, legal and IP, and researchers.

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.

This is partly explained by the University of Cambridge’s requirement for PhD students to upload their theses from 1.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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