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This month, Research England revealed Clarivate Analytics™ as the company who will be supplying assessment panels with citation data for REF2021 . The announcement marks a change from REF2014 when the data was provided by Clarivate's rival, Elsevier. What does this mean for REF? We know from previous guidance still out for consultation ( REF 2018/01 Section 281 ) that some panels will consider the number of times an item has been cited to aid their assessment of that output for the REF.  We now know the source of that data provided will be ISI Web of Science™ (WoS), a product owned by Clarivate Analytics™. We know that one source cannot tell the whole story about a research output, which is why panels will still use expert peer review as their primary means of assessment. However, for those disciplines where citation information is considered to be well represented in WoS, (namely Main Panels A and B ) it will be in the interest of those authors to ensure data about their out...

Open Access Week has traditionally focussed on Open Access to publications, which has been a catalyst to address the transformation of scholarly communication more broadly. Our OA Week celebrations included a screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship , a very insightful film that reminds us why so many people across the globe believe what a difference Open Access will make to knowledge, getting us closer to an equal society. Many significant figures from the OA movement are included in the film, and it struck me that some are willing the discussion to broaden out , to transform other aspects of research in need of also being open. Terms used to capture the broader need for openness beyond publications include Open Science / Open Knowledge / Open Research . In the interest of keeping this post as inter-disciplinary as possible I'm going to opt for using the phrase Open Research here. Those who have stepped one foot into a University or research environment knows tha...