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Recent funders' requirements for open access have presented researchers with both opportunities and challenges: opportunities to re-use and re-purpose published outputs and datasets, and challenges... 
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Continuing our series of Open Access Week posts, today we get the views of Bryony Graham, a postdoctoral researcher at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM). She writes about the theory and the reality of publishing open access as a researcher at the beginning of her career.
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Reflecting on their experiences supporting the growth of Columbia University's Academic Commons digital repository, Leyla Williams, Kathryn Pope, and Brian Luna Lucero make a clear case for why oth...
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‘Open access’ to academic outputs refers to free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research and the right to use and re-use those results as you need (though licence conditions may apply). There's a national and global momentum towards the open sharing of academic research – all major research funders operating in the UK have, or plan to have, a policy mandating open access for the research they fund. It's good for society, for the economy, for academic institutions… and it's also good for researchers.
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The material that you can access through this website is intended to help you prepare yourself for study on a research degree at a UK university.
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Within the overall framework of the organization’s strategy on OA, the recent launch of OA curricula for Researchers and Library Schools by UNESCO highlights its efforts for enhancing capacities to deal with Open Access issues. The carefully designed and developed sets of OA curricula for researchers and library and information professionals are based on two needs assessment surveys, and several rounds of face-to-face and online consultations with relevant stakeholders.
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Academics have been encouraged to make their research freely available, but their data also needs to be open to scrutiny
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COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – an intergovernmental framework supporting cooperation among scientists and researchers across Europe – recently supported an independent Stra...
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The quantity and influence of generalisable data presents challenges and opportunities for public policy making. Helen Margetts discusses how social scientists can help policy-makers in this change...
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