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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...

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...