Recordings of Past Events
Where possible, we live-stream and record our events which can then be viewed on the Office of Scholarly Communication YouTube channel. Please click on the links below to explore past presentations, or browse our channel here.
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Please note that the links below for events occuring before September 2018 will direct you to content on the OSC playlist in the Cambridge University Library YouTube channel. This content is also available in the OSC YouTube channel.
Engaging Researchers in Good Data Management
St Catherine's College and Cambridge University Library (the UL) 15 November 2017
- Data Conversations: Why Talk? (Hardy Schwamm & Jude Towers - Lancaster University)
- A World of Activities by Cambridge Data Champions (Marta Busse-Wicher & Sergio Marinez Cuesta - University of Cambridge)
- Data Stewardship: Addressing disciplinary data management needs (TU Delft - Marta teperek, Jasper van Dijk & Kees den Heijer)
- Investing in the open leaders of tomorrow: How Mozilla is bringing an open source philosophy to academic research. (Kirstie Witaker - Alan Turing Institute)
- Showcasing Europe's Open Data Champions (Vanessa Proudman, Director of SPARC Europe)
- Engagement tools as part of an RDM toolkit (Paul Stokes - Jisc)
- Engaging researchers with RDM through active data management plans A lightning talk from Tomasz Miksa, Vienna University of Technology
- Incentivising open science practices with badges Lightning talk from Gustav Nilsonne, Karolinska Institutet
- Encouraging Research Data Management in institutions where research isn't the priority Lightning talk, Beth Montague-Hellen, University of Sheffield, discusses the challenge of encouraging RDM with researchers who may not consider themselves researchers
- Towards Research Data Management Training at Kaunas University of Technology Lightning talk from Gintare Tautkeviciene and Ieva Ceseviciute, Kaunas University of Technology, who discuss their implementation of a new RDM training programme.
- Dissent Allowed: Widening discussions about Open Research (Rosie Higman - University of Manchester)
- Data Management in Digital Life Norway Lightning talk from Fatemeh Zamanzad, University of Bergen
- cBiT: The Compendium for Biomaterial Transcriptomics Dennie Hebels, Maastricht University, discusses the creation and use of the cBiT data repository in this lightning talk
- Where did I put my trowel? In this lightning talk, Claire Tsang, Historic England, discusses data management and efficiency in the Historic England Excavation and Analysis team.
- Empowering Target Identification at Glaxo Smith Kline In this lightning talk, Giovanni M Dall'Olio, Glaxo Smith Kline, discusses employing a data strategy to empower target identification at GSK)
- Online Expert Tour Guide on Data Management: How CESSDA engages with Researchers Lightning talk from Ellen Leenarts, Data Archiving and Network Services (DANS), reflecting on using online expert tour guides to engage with researchers.
- Collaboratiing to engage chemists in good data management In this lightning talk, Claire Castle, Chemistry Library, University of Cambridge, discusses collaboration when engaging chemists in good data management.
- Panel Discussion moderated by Dr Danny Kingsley and a panel of experts: Claire Tsang, Al Downie, Bev Jones, Jasper van Dijk, Laurent Gatto and Luc Henry, goes through questions on engaging researchers in good data management
Open Access Week 2017
23 - 29 October 2017 Various venues across Cambridge
- Helping Researchers Publish HASS - The Conversation Gemma Ware talks about publishing for The Conversation as part of a session on Helping Researchers Publish (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) held in Cambridge on Wednesday 25th October 2017
- Helping Researchers Publish HASS - Thinking About Copyright with SocArXiv Philip Cohen talks about copyright as part of our session on Helping Researchers Publish (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) held in Cambridge on Wednesday 25th October 2017
- Helping Researchers Publish HASS - Publishing a Research Monograph Rupert Gatti, Open Book Publishers speaks as part of our session on Helping Researchers Publish (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) held in Cambridge on Wednesday 25th October 2017.
- Helping Researchers Publish STEM - Why Publish Research-Based Policy Papers? Dr Dora Alexopoulou and Dr Lisa-Maria Mueller speak as part of our session on Helping Researchers Publish (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) held in Cambridge on Wednesday 25th October 2017
- Helping Researchers Publish HASS - UCL Press Laura Speicher, Publishing Manager at UCL Press speaks as part of our session on Helping Researchers Publish (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) held in Cambridge on Wednesday 25th October 2017
- Helping Researchers Publish STEM - CUP's hybrid books and journals initiative Chris Harrison, Publishing Development Director, Cambridge University Press speaks as part of our session on Helping Researchers Publish (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) held in Cambridge on Friday 27th October 2017.
- Helping Researchers Publish STEM - Writing for The Conversation Miriam Frankel, Science Editor, The Conversation speaks as part of our session on Helping Researchers Publish (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) held in Cambridge on Friday 27th October 2017.
- Helping Researchers Publish STEM - Open Science and Access Nicola Stead, Senior Editor, PLOS speaks as part of our session on Helping Researchers Publish (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) held in Cambridge on Friday 27th October 2017.
- Helping Researchers Publish HASS - The Rise of DIY Open Access Journals Brian Cody, Scholastica CEO and Co-Founder speaks as part of our session on Helping Researchers Publish (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) held in Cambridge on Friday 27th October 2017
- Helping Researchers Publish STEM - Transparency in Publishing Dr Sabina Alam from F1000 speaks as part of our session on Helping Researchers Publish (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) held in Cambridge on Friday 27th October 2017
- Helping Researchers Publish STEM - Making Data Publication a 1st Class Output Andrew L. Hufton, Managing Editor, Scientific Data, speaks as part of our session on Helping Researchers Publish (Science, Technology, Enginnering and Mathematics) held in Cambridge on Friday 27th October 2017
- Improving Openness and Reproducibilty of Scientific Research A talk which is part of the Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute series. Speaker: Dr Timothy Errington (Center for Open Science)
- How to Spot a Predatory Publisher Claire Sewell, from the Office of Scholarly Communication is pleased to offer this popular course as a webinar for library staff.
Text and Data Mining
Engineering Department, Cambridge, 12 July 2017
- Text & Data Mining: The Changing Nature of Research (Kiera McNiece, FutureTDM)
- Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Charles Matthews, Wikimedian-in-Residence)
- Managing the Information Deluge (Dr Alison O'Mara-Eves, UCL)
- ChemDataExtractor (Callum Court, University of Cambridge)
- Roundtable Discussion
Read all speaker presentations from the event on the Apollo Repository:
- Kiera McNeice - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266225
- Callum Court - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266234
- Dr Ben Outhwaite - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266233
- Peter Murray-Rust - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266228
- Rosemary Dickin - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266230
- John McNaught - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266235
- Dr Alison O’Mara-Eves - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266221
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How to Get the Most out of Modern Peer Review
Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, 30 March 2017
- Welcome remarks (Dr Marta Teperek, OSC)
- Innovations in peer review at eLife (Dr Wei Mun Chan, eLife)
- Innovations in peer review at F1000 (Dr Sabina Alam, F1000)
- The role of the peer reviewer in checking supporting information (Dr Laurent Gatto, University of Cambridge)
- Getting formal recognition for your peer review work (Tom Culley, Publons)
- Introduction to afternoon workshops
- Open peer review: what is it and what does it achieve? (Dr Corina Logan, University of Cambridge)
- Maximising the potential of peer review at PLOS: examples and lessons to be learnt (Dr Ines Alvarez-Garcia & Dr Sara Fuentes Perez, PLOS)
- Feedback from workshops
- Q&A session with the publisher (Dr Jennifer Wright, CUP)
- Closing remarks
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Helping Researchers Publish
Betty and Gordon Moore Library, Cambridge, 8 February 2017
- Science Matters: innovative approaches to publishing and peer-reviewing single observations (Laurence Rajendran)
- Post publication peer review, open peer review and preprints (Nikolaus Kriegeskorte)
- Using collaborative writing tools for your papers (Overleaf)
- Connecting active research management and research publishing (Nigel Goddard, Research Space)
- Peer review and the benefits of openness (Tom Culley, Publons)
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Research Software Management, Sharing and Sustainability
Betty and Gordon Moore Library, Cambridge, 16 January 2017
- Is my research right? Surviving in a post-expert world (Neil Chue-Hong)
- Towards standard practice for managing and sharing code (Stephen Eglen)
Open Access Week 2016
Mill Lane Lecture Room 9, Cambridge, 25 October 2016
Darwin Room, Pitt Building, Cambridge, 26 October 2016