This is an interesting question and one that early career researchers commonly ask. You’ve worked long and hard on your PhD thesis and achieved your doctorate. Congratulations! Your thesis is deposited in your institution’s open access repository and the findings
Universities UK (UUK) supports the agreement made by EU institutions over the future shape of the Horizon Europe programme. This programme succeeds Horizon 2020, and will run from 2021 until 2027. UUK is confident that Horizon Europe will continue to
Frank Manista reports from the General Assembly for OpenAire Advance and Legal Entity meeting held in Hungary in January. 34 members of the OpenAire Advance group were updated on the progress being made with the 10 work packages associated with
Yesterday two important documents relating to REF2021 were published by the four higher education funding bodies. These were the final Guidance on Submissions and the Panel Criteria and Working Methods documents. Together, they give comprehensive information about the submission and
An ORCID number is a unique identifying code that a researcher keeps throughout their professional career. It’s quick and easy to register and receive your ORCID number (or iD) from the ORCID website. Names can change and middle name initials may be used,
Yesterday, cOAlition S announced guidance on how to implement Plan S and opened a consultation period for discussion and feedback. cOAlition S welcomes feedback until 1st February 2019 and you can find details of how to submit feedback on the cOAlition S website. There is
The Wellcome Institute – amended open access policy The Wellcome Institute recently announced that it’s making changes to its Open Access Policy. The new policy will then apply to any research articles submitted for publication from 1st January 2020. The
UKRI and Science Foundation Ireland along with 9 other European funding agencies have signed up to “Plan S”. The plan is seen as a transformative development towards achieving full open access to research outputs. The key principle of Plan S
Now, this is a question we get asked a lot. So, together with the Repository team, we’ve created a video which we hope will go a long way towards answering this question. We’ve divided the publication process into three stages and