Open Research – Research Office

Transitioning from Doctoral Researcher to Early Career Researcher – recording available

by Ka-Ming PangOpen Access, Open Research, Research Data Management, University of Westminster Press July 20, 20230 comments

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 …

The Altmetric Attention Score now in WestminsterResearch

by Nina WattsImpact, Open Research, Public and Community Engagement, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised, VRE, WestminsterResearch May 11, 2023May 11, 20230 comments

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, …

2023 Culture, Employment and Development in Academic Research Survey (CEDARS) is now live!

by Holly RangerEthics, Impact, Integrity, Open Access, Open Research, Researcher Development April 11, 20230 comments

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 …

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 …

Publish Open Access with ACM

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications March 13, 2023March 13, 20230 comments

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 …

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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 …

How sustainable is your research project website?

by Holly RangerImpact, Open Research, Research Data Management November 22, 2022July 28, 20230 comments

Many researchers create websites to disseminate their research without planning for how the website content will continue to be accessible and usable when their funding runs out. Websites are also rapidly outpaced by software and hardware advances, meaning that they cannot be relied upon as secure or long term hosts for research findings or outputs. …

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: Open Access and Practice Based Research

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, REF, Repository, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised, VRE, WestminsterResearch October 27, 2022October 26, 20220 comments

Today’s post focuses on how practice-based research may benefit from being made more effectively shared. At Westminster we have prioritised improving our institutional repository (WestminsterResearch) to better support non-text based (also known as non-traditional) output types.See article : Evans, Jenny, Nina Watts, Taylor Mudd, and Tom Renner. 2022. “From Legacy to Next Generation: A Story …