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Gates Foundation Expands Policy for Open Access to Scientific Research

The Gates Foundation has announced a refreshed policy for grantees which ends the Foundation’s payment of individual article publishing fees and requires grantees to share preprints of their articles. The Foundation is building on a decade’s experience of its current open access policy to introduce these measures. Their...

Cambridge University Libraries Research Skills Training Poster

Cambridge University Libraries Research Skills Easter Term 2024

Cambridge University Libraries Research Skills (CULRS) sessions have gone live for Easter term 2023-24. These regular sessions, which take PhD students and other researchers through key academic research skills, kick off on 24 April and run through until 6 June.   The research skills courses and workshops feature dedicated...

Dr Christophe Gillain, Scholarly Communication Support, Office of Scholarly Communication, University of Cambridge

Dr Christophe Gillain joins the OSC

A new arrival to Cambridge’s Office of Scholarly Communication, Dr Christophe Gillain has taken up the role of Scholarly Communication Support, which involves supporting the University’s open agenda and liaising with its researchers. His wider brief includes management of research output deposits, providing advice on...

OSC at Research Libraries UK (RLUK)

Cambridge’s Office of Scholarly Communication teams were in the spotlight at this year’s RLUK online conference, whose theme was New Frontiers: The expanding scope of the modern research library. OSC preprint service agustina2.jpg Dr Agustina Martínez-García, Head of Open Research Systems, and Alexia Sutton, Open Access...

The Must Farm Downloads

Cambridge research on the sophisticated domestic lives of Bronze Age Fen people which came out in March has given a striking example of the way open research can enhance the spread of academic work. Reports on thousands of artefacts from ‘Britain’s Pompeii’ , the remains of a stilt village that went up in flames and...

Prof Jacob Stegenga, University of Cambridge, presenting at Promise and Pitfalls of preregistration meeting

The Promise and Pitfalls of Preregistration Meeting

The promise and pitfalls of preregistration meeting was held at the Royal Society in March 2024 to address the utility of preregistration by facilitating an interdisciplinary dialogue about its use and goals. Preregistration, a community-led response to the replication crisis, is the practice of publicly declaring a study’...

Theatre with red seats and red side curtains

Cambridge Open Research Conference 2023

Cambridge University Libraries' annual conference on Open Research was on the theme of 'Open Research for Inclusion: Spotlighting Different Voices in Open Research at Cambridge', attracting 84 in-person and 75 online attendees. As the title suggests, this event showed that Open Research can look different in different...