Open Access Week 2020: get ready for the Figshare@Leicester upload competition!

The University Library Research Services Team are looking forward to celebrating International Open Access Week 2020 which runs from 19-25^th October 2020. The theme this year is ‘Open with Purpose: Taking action to build structural equity and inclusion’.

During OA week we shall be publishing a series of themed blog posts, open access recorded conversations with UoL research stakeholders covering a variety of OA topics, and as usual we will be available for a virtual consultation on any open research topic (e.g. via MS Teams).

Celebrating open data, open publications, and open theses on Figshare with an Open Access Week upload competition

We shall be taking part in the Figshare international OA week upload competition where the University of Leicester, among other institutions worldwide, will be taking part in this exciting competition.

Figshare is the platform for our institutional research archive and we encourage you to deposit your data (via our figshare platform) or publications (through IRIS) for a chance to win one of five £100 Amazon vouchers. In order to qualify as valid entry the deposits must be made between 12am BST on 19^th of October until 11:59pm BST on 25^th of October.

Have a look at some of our Figshare research output deposits:

Vostanis, Panos (2020): World Awareness for Children in Trauma. University of Leicester. Collection.
Brasseur, Laurence (2019): Decentring the Museum: Examining Young People’s Perceptions and Experiences from a Sociocultural Perspective. University of Leicester. Thesis.
Sanders, Teela; Campbell, Rosie; scoular, jane; pitcher, jane; cunningham, stewart (2019): Beyond the Gaze. University of Leicester. Collection.
Lampert, Jodie E. (2020): An investigation of differentiation between Cornwall and Devon based on history, surnames, and Y-chromosomes. University of Leicester. Thesis.
Kaul, Himanshu; Brightling, Christopher; Smallwood, Rod (2019): Clinical level agent-based model of pathological airway remodeling in asthma. University of Leicester. Dataset.

Good luck to all our researchers and if you have any queries please do not hesitate to get in touch with us via the open access helpdesk.

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