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Open Research Conference 2025

In recent years, greater attention has been paid to the self-organised research communities who publish their own journals and publishing projects. Across Cambridge there is a flourishing ecosystem of DIY projects across all disciplines in the University, ranging from student-led publications to journals organised by...

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Formatting the Future: Why Researchers Should Consider File Formats

The open data movement is gaining traction as funders and publishers push for research data to be made publicly accessible. Whilst most researchers using the University of Cambridge's Apollo repository understand the benefits of data sharing, researchers often share their data during the publication process under tight...

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Diamond Open Access Journals Platform launches at Cambridge

CUL launched the Diamond Open Access Journals platform in May. This one-year pilot project, initiated by Open Research Systems (ORS) and the Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC), aims to support Cambridge's research community in the evolving open research and scholarly publishing environment. The library is exploring...

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Thoth Archiving Network goes Live at Cambridge

Cambridge University Library (CUL) is piloting the Thoth Open Archiving Network which archives publications from small presses across multiple repositories, ensuring preservation if they cease operation. This initiative lets CUL explore open platforms (DSpace software) for the discovery and long-term availability of...

Unlocking Research blog: Sustainable Publishing

Knowledge Rights 21 recently published a short video by Thomas Roulet, Professor of Organisational Sociology and Leadership at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. In it Professor Roulet discusses the operations of M@ n@gement , the no-fee open access journal published by L’Association Internationale...

Dr Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and interviewee in the second Data Diversity Podcast

Data Diversity Podcast: Researchers’ Relationship with Research Data

The Research Data Team has recorded another episode of the Data Diversity Podcast, where they speak to Cambridge researchers about their relationship with research data, learning, along the way, a little more about the different experiences and journeys their scholarly endeavour may take them through. In Episode 2...

The cover page of 'Public Knowledge', Issue 110-111 of the New Formations journal Vol 2023, showing a black and white photo of a metal staircase

Just one day of unstructured autonomous time

Dr Sam Moore, the OSC's Scholarly Communication Specialist, published a new article in the journal New Formations entitled '‘Just One Day of Unstructured Autonomous Time’: Supporting Editorial Labour for Ethical Publishing within the University'. In this paper, Dr Moore and co-author Dr Janneke Adema argue that...

Chemistry World taps OSC data expertise

A recent article in the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemistry World, called on OSC’s Research Data Manager Clair Castle as a source to help explore ‘ How to Organise your Data ’. The article gives six expert tips: plan for publication create a standardised system prepare appropriate metadata backup...

Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities Conference

OSC representatives are speaking at the fourth Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities (RESSH) conference to be held in Galway, Ireland on 23-24 May 2024. Dr Sam Moore, Scholarly Communication Specialist, will kick the conference off with a Keynote titled ‘Commoning the humanities and social sciences? Open...

22 New Data Champions for the University 

The Research Data Team (Office of Scholarly Communication, OSC) recently completed their eighth call for Data Champions, and we are happy to announce the successful induction of 22 new Data Champions from this year’s applicants.   We are also happy to be able to say that the reach of our Data Champions continues to grow...