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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 …

Open Access Week 2022: How do we keep the open science momentum going?

by Holly RangerOpen Access, Open Research, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised October 26, 2022November 2, 20220 comments

This is a guest blog post from Dr Sam Westwood, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster. Sam founded and runs the RIOT Science Club (https://riotscience.co.uk/), a forum where researchers can learn about Open Research reforms and practices. The RIOT Science club aims to foster Reproducible, Interpretable, Open & Transparent Science. Sam also runs ReproducibiliTea …

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: Open for Climate Justice

by Holly RangerOpen Access, Open Research, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised October 24, 2022October 26, 20220 comments

International Open Access Week (October 24-30) is a time to advocate for openness as the default for research and to ensure that equity is at the center of this work. This year’s theme is “Open for Climate Justice” and seeks to raise awareness around how open enables climate justice. Climate Justice is an explicit acknowledgement …

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 …

Introducing the WestminsterResearch Profiles

by Jeeshan GaziPublic and Community Engagement, Researcher Profiles, WestminsterResearch August 23, 2022August 24, 20220 comments

Earlier this year, the VRE Researcher Profile module was successfully used to record over 600 Public and Community Engagement events and activities inputted directly by yourself and your colleagues. All of the data that can be inputted into the VRE Researcher Profile module – from your research and teaching narratives to media showcasing your work …

Publish Open Access in the American Psychological Association (APA) Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch August 19, 2022March 19, 20245 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in 88 hybrid journals in the PsycArticles portfolio, excluding the Hogefe collection of journals. This agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles through gold open access at no further charge to yourself. To be eligible: You must be the corresponding author who is …

Research information and reporting at UoW

by Joshua MeadUncategorised May 30, 2022May 30, 20220 comments

Hello, I’m Abel Tesfai. I work in the Research Environment and Scholarly Communications team within the R&KE Office as the university’s Research Information Support Officer. With all the conversation ongoing around REF data, I wanted to take the opportunity to explain how we handle and manage research data, why we do so, and what your …

Publish Open Access with American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch May 13, 2022October 26, 20238 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in any of American Chemical Society (ACS)’s hybrid or fully Open Access (gold) journals. This ‘Read & Publish’ agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles through gold open access at no further charge to yourself. To be eligible: You must be the corresponding author …