RDM Principles: Research inception and planning
More thoughts about the University of Leicester Research Data Management Principles. Research inception and planning 2. Data management planning is an integral, essential and dynamic component of the research process from inception and should include provision for the selective long term custodianship of research data. 3. Research proposals should include all possible recovery of direct […]
Ideas for tools for helping with Open Access publication
I find tools from SHERPA useful. I like to keep an eye on what I’d ideally like as well as what is currently available both for me and people I work with. In tools to help with Open Access publishing: For researchers: A clear choice between contractual choices for a journal, with a small number […]
Publisher-librarian round table, 20 May 2014
SCONUL e-monthly April 2014 had [links added by me] One-day workshop on open access, London, 20 May BMJ, IOP Publishing, Royal Society Publishing and the Royal Society of Chemistry are working in collaboration with the Research Information Network (RIN) to run a one-day workshop on open access (OA), in order to understand how institutions have […]
Page numbers and preprints
An author friend flagged up some problems with Green Open Access (OA): A common and baseline important thing: referencing, and the æsthetics and readability of the text. Can the version we archive be referenced in detail in the same way as the published copy of record? Is our archived version beautiful and easy to read? I’m […]
Yet more barriers to Open Access
I’ve recently heard of three general areas of concern about Open Access (OA) from more senior colleagues: There are lots of poor quality open access journals out there and some of them are no more than money scams I can’t see the value of open access because my papers are instantly available to other researchers in […]
Open Access Forum – 4th April 2014
I’m very pleased to be organising an Open Access forum as part of the University of Leicester Research Festival next Friday 4th April 2014. The blurb reads: Open Access (OA): Broadcasting your research to make a bigger impact worldwide, keeping your funders and employer happy and putting more of the combined observations, analysis and knowledge of […]
Top ten book chapters in LRA
I’ve used the IRUS-UK service to find out what book chapters in Leicester Research Archive (LRA) have been most downloaded in last few months. Top of the list is Dr. Corbett, J.M. ‘Technology‘. In: P. Hancock and A. Spicer (eds), Understanding corporate life, Sage, 2009, pp. 10-26. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9839 Perhaps it is because of its ubiquity and taken-for-grantedness in […]
Recent most popular Open Access publications range across seven decades
I’ve been taking a look at what has been most popular recently in our Open Access repository of University of Leicester research publications: Our most read Leicester Research Archive (LRA) publication over the last month was Halla Diyab’s 2008 Doctoral Thesis, “Crossing the margin: minorities and marginality in the drama of Tennessee Williams.” Controversy following […]
Compliance Venn Diagram
In conversation this morning I was thinking of how a researcher publishing is responsible for compliance or legal agreement with potentially three parties: their funder, their publisher and their employer. The researcher will also be choosing their own publication preferences. We in the library Research Services can help navigate this space if asked. We know […]
More reasons not to publish OA?
Thanks to Anton Angelo for a couple more good challenges we get back when we ask people about depositing their research in their institutional repository: I already put it up on Arxiv? This is just wasted effort! I’ve been thinking about this one for a few days and have had similar queries here: why don’t […]
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