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UKRI open access books policy - update

Yesterday, UKRI finally published their  Open Access Review Consultation document:  https://www.ukri.org/files/funding/oa/open-access-review-consultation/ Amongst other issues, the review contains important proposals on open access policy for books. I have been following this policy area for the University Library over the last 18 months. Here is my summary of yesterday's announcement: Proposals Monographs, book chapters and edited collections that acknowledge UKRI funding to be made OA.  The version of record, or author manuscript, should be made available via an online platform...  ... using a maximum 12 month embargo and CC BY or CC BY-ND licence.  This policy would apply to works published on, or after, 1 January 2024 . UKRI are still to decide on some issues including: definitions, exceptions (there are quite a few listed), author copyright.  This policy will also inform future REF open access policy. In my view, this should be seen as UKRI backing a mi

Celebrating Love Data Week: RDM skills in the library & workforce development

The University Library's research services team are celebrating  International Love Data Week  which runs from 10 - 14 February 2020. We support researchers and PhD students, in learning about effective data management practices, services and tools as well as how to organise your data, and advise on routes for data deposit, ensuring that, where feasible, you can make your research data outputs open, accessible, and discoverable for others to discover and reuse. We are publishing a series of themed blog posts this week on a variety of research data management topics and we are of course always available for face-to-face research data consultations to chat about your research and data outputs, providing support for data management plans, outreach and advocacy within departments and colleges, and we provide and support the research data infrastructure  Figshare at Leicester , for those who wish to deposit their data in our institutional data repository, when a disciplinary one is

Celebrating Love Data Week: University of Leicester RDM toolkit

The University Library's research services team are celebrating  International Love Data Week  which runs from 10 - 14 February 2020. We support researchers and PhD students, in learning about effective data management practices, services and tools as well as how to organise your data, and advise on routes for data deposit, ensuring that, where feasible, you can make your research data outputs open, accessible, and discoverable for others to discover and reuse. We are publishing a series of themed blog posts this week on a variety of research data management topics and we are of course always available for face-to-face research data consultations to chat about your research and data outputs, providing support for data management plans, outreach and advocacy within departments and colleges, and we provide and support the research data infrastructure  Figshare at Leicester , for those who wish to deposit their data in our institutional data repository, when a disciplinary one is

Celebrating Love Data Week: UoL Figshare for data top trumps

The University Library's research services team are celebrating  International Love Data Week  which runs from 10 - 14 February 2020. We support researchers and PhD students, in learning about effective data management practices, services and tools as well as how to organise your data, and advise on routes for data deposit, ensuring that, where feasible, you can make your research data outputs open, accessible, and discoverable for others to discover and reuse. We are publishing a series of themed blog posts this week on a variety of research data management topics and we are of course always available for face-to-face research data consultations to chat about your research and data outputs, providing support for data management plans, outreach and advocacy within departments and colleges, and we provide and support the research data infrastructure  Figshare at Leicester , for those who wish to deposit their data in our institutional data repository, when a disciplinary one is

Celebrating Love Data Week: sector, funder and drivers for open data

The University Library's research services team are celebrating  International Love Data Week  which runs from 10 - 14 February 2020. We support researchers and PhD students, in learning about effective data management practices, services and tools as well as how to organise your data, and advise on routes for data deposit, ensuring that, where feasible, you can make your research data outputs open, accessible, and discoverable for others to discover and reuse. We are publishing a series of themed blog posts this week on a variety of research data management topics and we are of course always available for face-to-face research data consultations to chat about your research and data outputs, providing support for data management plans, outreach and advocacy within departments and colleges, and we provide and support the research data infrastructure Figshare at Leicester , for those who wish to deposit their data in our institutional data repository, when a disciplinary one is

Celebrating Love Data Week: UoL and Figshare for data

The University Library's research services team are celebrating International Love Data Week which runs from 10 - 14 February 2020. We support researchers and PhD students, in learning about effective data management practices, services and tools as well as how to organise your data, and advise on routes for data deposit, ensuring that, where feasible, you can make your research data outputs open, accessible, and discoverable for others to discover and reuse.  Image by Emily Castels from the Images of Research Collection https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.7976873.v2 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) We are publishing a series of themed blog posts this week on a variety of research data management topics and we are of course always available for face-to-face research data consultations to chat about your research and data outputs, providing support for data management plans, outreach and advocacy within departments and colleges, and we provide and support