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Research assessment ideas wanted

The Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA, www.coara.eu ), which tries to improve the assessment of research and researchers, is collecting ideas on research assessment to try implement the best ones. They are after new ways to recognise excellence and want everyone’s opinion, no matter how unconventional...

Dr Nick Wise, Research Associate in Architectural Fluid Mechanics at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Data Diversity Podcast explores research fraud

Scientific sleuth Dr Nick Wise explores some of the shady activities that taint scientific publishing today in a podcast on research integrity summarised in four posts on OSC’s Unlocking Research blog . This podcast is part of the Data Diversity Podcast series run by the Office of Scholarly Communication’s Research Data...

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Community-led open scholarship event gains grant

This October, the OSC were awarded a £2k grant from the by the West Hub Small Grants Programme to run their community-led open scholarship event in 2025. This event, planned for late spring, aims to focus on the self-organised research communities across the University who publish their own journals. They form a researcher...

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First annual meeting for the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information

In September representatives from Cambridge University Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication and Open Research Systems teams attended the first annual meeting of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. The declaration , launched in spring this year, intends to prioritise open forms of information...

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 de...

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...