Community over Commercialization Open Access Week 2024 will continue the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. Learn more here. University of Westminster Press One of the ways the University puts community over commercialization is through the University …
The University’s latest Annual Narrative Statement around its work in the area of research integrity will shortly be published on the University’s public Research Governance website, where earlier iterations of the Statements can also be found. The Statements are made publicly available in order to provide information to all involved in research around the work …
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On 28 November 2023, UKRI launched a new £3.5 million fund dedicated to supporting open access costs for monographs, book chapters and edited collections for UKRI funded authors who publish within the scope of their Open Access Policy. Monographs, book chapters and edited collections published on or after 1 January 2024 will need to be openly accessible within 12 …
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 …
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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 …
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The Research & Knowledge Exchange Office and Scholarly Communications Team recently ran an event aimed at Doctoral Researchers giving an overview of some aspects to consider as Doctoral Researchers build up a profile as a researcher. This was followed by an opportunity for attendees to hear Dr Elle Larsson share her experiences of being an …
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In order to record and demonstrate the impact beyond traditional metrics such as impact factors and citation scores, our research outputs have received, we have added the Altmetrics donut display to our WestminsterResearch institutional repository records. What are Altmetrics? Altmetrics (or alternative metrics) measure the impact of a scholarly research output based on online activity, …
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The University is running CEDARS from 11th April to 26th May 2023. This is your opportunity to influence research culture and researcher development at Westminster. What is CEDARS? Designed in collaboration between Vitae, researchers, and researcher developers across the HE sector in the UK, CEDARS seeks to gather the thoughts and experiences of researchers around …
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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ACM OPEN enables all corresponding authors affiliated with our institution to publish scholarly articles with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on a completely open access basis without needing to pay any individual article processing charges (APCs). All research articles and conference proceedings with a corresponding author from the University of Westminster are made OA …