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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 …

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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 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 …

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Using social media data responsibly in research

by Holly RangerEthics, Open Research, Research Data Management April 25, 2022August 22, 20220 comments

Here at Westminster, research using social media data where the research concerns users is considered as if working with human participants in real life. Your research design is therefore subject to the same ethical considerations and ethical review as if you were collecting observational data in the field. In this blog post, we’ve compiled some …

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 …

Sharing your data responsibly: FAIR data and CARE data

by Holly RangerOpen Access October 21, 20200 comments

The theme of International Open Access Week this year is ‘Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion’. The theme is a recognition that while openness can be a powerful tool for building more equitable systems of sharing knowledge, structural racism, discrimination, and exclusion are present and persistent in places where openness …

Working with Special Licence and Secure Lab data at home

by Holly RangerResearch Data Management July 23, 20200 comments

Do you use Special Licence or Secure Lab data in your research? Find out how to access Special Licence and Secure Lab data from home. The UK Data Service has announced two sets of temporary conditions of use that enable researchers to access Special Licence and Secure Lab data from home during the COVID-19 …