Category: Open Research Blog Series
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Open Research Blog Series #5: Open to Publishing?
The Library launched a new in-house publishing service this year to support and encourage the sharing of our research in an open and sustainable way. The service includes a number of publishing platforms and provides advice on dissemination strategy help with setting up new open access journals. The new in-house publishing service gives the University…
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Open Research Blog Series #4: Empowering Open
Putting these blog contributions together gave us a kaleidoscope of Open Research attitudes and practices from our research community. The contributions in this blogpost are an example of this. We have contributions from a variety of researchers including Open Research Leads, new staff members, and postgraduate researchers. They each highlight different aspects and benefits of…
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Open Research Blog Series #3: Open at every stage
The two contributions below are from researchers in different fields and at different stages of their careers. Chris is a senior lecturer and Open Research Lead for his School, while Calum is a postgraduate student at the early stage of a research project. Both used the Open Science Framework (OSF); a free open platform to support research and…
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Open Research Blog Series #2: Research Metrics
Keeping with this year’s Open Access Week theme of Community over Commercialisation, it is important to remember that the value of research outputs to the larger community cannot be measured using traditional bibliometrics alone. Metrics alone cannot capture the full richness of academic contributions; they must be contextualised Meiko Makita, Health Sciences Open Research Lead,…
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Open Access in Iran: Navigating Academic Barriers
The theme for International Open Access Week 2024 is “Community over Commercialisation”. As part of the Library’s OA Week activities, we asked our research community to tell us about their experience of Open Access. One of the most compelling responses came from Mahtab and Fatemeh, two postgraduate researchers from Iran currently studying in Dundee. In…
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Open Access Week 2024!
Its International Open Access Week 2024 (21-27 October). The theme this year is “Community over commercialisation”, a continuation of last year’s theme emphasising the benefits of Open Access to the public and academic community. The theme is still appropriate for Open Access and Open Research at the University of Dundee as initiatives such as Library-led…