The EPSRC has released the following reminder about access to research publications: EPSRC would like to remind all those it funds that published research arising from EPSRC funding must be made openly accessible by any available route. Free and open access to…
RCUK Plans to Extend Open Access Policy
Research Councils UK (RCUK) have produced a draft policy paper which sees an amendment to open access policies whereby it will be mandatory for all RCUK-funded papers be made freely available six months after publication. The draft policy paper was published…
Further Backing for Open Access Publishing of Research Data
The Association of Research Managers (ARMA) has teamed up with knowledge-transfer groups PraxisUnico and the Association for University Research and Industry Links (AURIL) to support open-access publishing of research data. In a joint statement, the organisations say open access will…
New EPSRC Policy On Open Access Publication
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has introduced a new policy on open access publication arising from funded research: EPSRC Council has agreed to mandate open access publication, with the proviso that academics should be able to choose the…
ARMA/Wellcome Trust Study Tour – 4th Feb 2011
Last Friday I attended a Study Tour of the Wellcome Trust, organised by the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA). Study tours allow research administrators to gain useful insight into a funder’s vision, values, goals, policies and funding opportunities…
Lincoln Repository Doubles in Size
The Lincoln Repository has hit yet another milestone: doubling in size to 2,000 items in the first half of 2010. As Paul Stainthorp and Joss Winn have already commented, this high growth rate is due in no small part to…