What is ORCID? ORCID is an independent non-profit organization that provides a persistent identifier – an ORCID iD – that distinguishes you from other researchers and a mechanism for linking your research outputs and…
It has been a hectic summer for the St Andrews Research Repository. At the beginning of May we added our 12,000th item to the repository (Pagano , P , Mackay , D H & Yeates , A R 2018 , ‘ A new technique for…
The European Commission has established an Expert Group to investigate the main needs, obstacles and opportunities for open data sharing in the area of transport research. The Group will make recommendations about the…
The Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences are organising a workshop “Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) – Train the Trainers“. The workshop will take place between 24.09 and 28.09.2018 at Schloss Dagstuhl –…
Data Tree online course Data Tree is a new free online data management training course, funded by NERC, which is due to launch in June 2018. This self-paced course consists of eight structured modules including video,…
The Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow’s next data skills training course will be held on Monday 11th June 2018 and is now taking registrations. Collecting and Storing Data from Internet-based Sources…
The University Library has been celebrating this week as the University’s research repository reaches over 1 million downloads! This enviable download figure is derived from IRUS-UK – a statistics service for UK…
The Library effort to make research papers Open Access continues and this week we passed the 12000 item milestone. Thanks to our colleague Kirsty Knowles the 12000th item deposited is a paper about modelling space…
Andy Turner, Jisc data champion from the University of Leeds, argues “Data should be as open as possible and as closed as necessary” in a recent piece published in Times Higher Education. The article provides some…
The cost of Open Access isn’t a late-breaking field. In 2014 a cost of £9.2m for UK research organisations to achieve RCUK Open Access compliance was quoted [1]. This is in addition to the millions paid to publishers…