On the 22nd June 2016, I was lucky enough to attend the launch of the new edition of the Digital Preservation Handbook at the picturesque Guildhall in York. In addition to meeting the welcoming staff of the Digital Preservation Coalition, I also had the opportunity to chat with many of the authors and experts who had […]
CRIS systems going national and providing new avenues for research into research management Tamsin Burland, our research subject specialist reports on the CRIS2016 conference, where she delivered a session. The ‘CRIS2016’ conference, organised by euroCRIS, was held 8th -10th June at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. This is a biennial conference focussed on […]
On Tuesday last week, I was lucky enough to be the Jisc envoy – along with a few other Jisc colleagues and two project leads from our research data spring initiative – at the Science and Innovation Conference 2016. The conference took place in the fabulous and very central venue – The Queen Elizabeth II […]
This post is a companion to a poster on the Jisc Research Data Shared Service that John Kaye is presenting for Jisc at the Open Repositories conference this week in Dublin. You can download the poster [PDF] here: RDSS Poster Open Repositories June 2016 This post provides an overview of the current status of the […]
Last week, Martin Hamilton and I attended the S-lab conference at the BBSRC Rothamsted Research. S-lab is an initiative that supports world class science through engaging the discussion on efficiencies around laboratory equipment and facilities. The conference kicked off with a few keynote speakers. David Parfrey of BBSRC said that the recipe for a bioeconomy […]
Petr Knoth and Dasha Herrmanova from the Open University have experimented with a new approach to research assessment metrics (semantometrics) which isn’t based on citation data alone but argues that the full text is needed to assess the value of a research article. This research supports the findings of the HEFCE Metrics Tide Report that proposed […]
Cameron Neylon is an advocate for open access and Professor of Research Communications at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. The Library & Scholarly Futures blog has published a guest post by Cameron where he comments on the open citations experiment. The experiment investigated new forms of research citation and measures that could […]
I was lucky enough to attend the ARMA (Association of Research Managers and Administrators) Conference early in June 2016. As a first-time delegate and speaker I was hugely impressed by the range and quality of presentations and, indeed, delegates. With 800 delegates and a packed, varied two-and-a-half day programme there was a lot to engage […]
We have put together an overview of our progress with the Research at Risk co-design challenge since our last update in December 2015. Over the past 6 months, we have been mostly busy with: Establishing the supplier framework and selecting the vendors for each lot within the research data shared service as well as holding […]
In this post Paul Stokes reports on the Jisc Research Data Shared Service workshop held at IDCC 2016 in Amsterdam on 22nd February 2016. At IDCC 2016 Jisc held a workshop to share some of our early experiences—and those of others—in putting together the requirements for the Jisc Research Data Shared Service Pilot. Apart from sharing […]