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Open Access Week: Community over Commercialization, October 23 - 29, 2023 #OAWeek

Open Access Week 2023: Community over Commercialization

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, University of Westminster Press, UWP October 18, 20230 comments

International Open Access Week (October 23-29) is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. This year’s theme “Community over Commercialization” encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community-and which do …

Open Access Week 2023: Resources Available and External Events Coming Up

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, University of Westminster Press, UWP October 18, 2023October 18, 20231 comment

International Open Access Week 2023: Community over Commercialization, 23-29 October, 2023 Open Access Week 2023 is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. As part of Open Access Week our University of Westminster Press Manager, Philippa Grand, will be participating in a …

Articles, books, and data, and where to publish them

by Holly RangerOpen Access, Open Research, REF, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, University of Westminster Press, UWP, WestminsterResearch March 20, 20230 comments

The Scholarly Communications team recently held an information session on scholarly outputs and where to publish them. You can watch a recording of the session in Stream at this link (staff login). You can also download the presentation sides from SharePoint at this link (staff login). First, Nina Watts, Open Access and Repository Manager provided …

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NEW University Research Data Management Policy

by Holly RangerIntegrity, Open Access, Open Research, Research Data Management January 18, 20230 comments

The University has published a new Research Data Management (RDM) Policy. The RDM Policy outlines the key expectations for researchers in relation to the management and preservation of research data and research related records created at the University, and clarifies the responsibilities of researchers and the institution in relation to good research data management and …

Preserve your research data FAIR-ly

by Holly RangerOpen Research, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications January 10, 20230 comments

The University’s new Research Data Management (RDM) Policy (2022) sets out a series of key expectations to aid you in meeting best practice in the management and preservation of research data. One key expectation is that research data selected for preservation beyond the lifetime of a project are deposited in an appropriate research data repository …

Open Access Week 2022: Open Access and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

by Holly RangerOpen Access, Open Research, Public and Community Engagement, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised October 28, 20220 comments

Our final post for #OAWeek is a guest blog from Philippa Grand, Press Manager at the University of Westminster Press. You can find the Press on twitter @UniWestPress Since their launch in 2016 there has been much interest from universities and publishers in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Many universities have structured research priorities around …

Open Access Week 2022: How to be an Open Researcher

by Holly RangerCommunities, Open Access, Open Research, Research Data Management, Researcher Development October 25, 2022October 27, 20220 comments

Today we have a guest blog from Ka-Ming Pang, Academic Engagement Librarian (Computer Science and Engineering) at the University of Westminster. Ka-Ming highlights some key tips and takeaways from an event run in collaboration with the Sustainable Cities and the Urban Environnment Research Community on “Becoming an Open Researcher”. In the two decades since the …

Open Access Week 2022: Events Coming Up

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised October 12, 20220 comments

International Open Access Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice, 24-30 October, 2022 This year the focus of International Open Access Week is ‘Open for Climate Justice’. During the week we will be releasing daily blog posts from our open access week team at Westminster. Look out for these from 24 October. Events & Resources from …

Publish Open Access with Elsevier Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Scholarly Communications March 30, 2022October 26, 20233 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in any of Elsevier’s hybrid journals at no further charge to the author. This ‘Read & Publish’ agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles in a wide variety of participating Elsevier journals across disciplines through gold open access. To be eligible: You must be …

How to license your research data

by Holly RangerOpen Access, Research Data Management October 28, 20210 comments

Research funding bodies, institutions, and publishers are increasingly encouraging or mandating that the research data underpinning your research outputs are also published and made available for validation and re-use by others. Applying a licence to your research data enables you to establish copyright and set out how and in what circumstances your research data can …