Category: Open research

  • UKRI Open Access Policy 2021

    On 6th August UKRI released its much-anticipated Open Access Policy. Applicable to research publications that acknowledge funding from any of the UKRI councils, the policy aims to ensure that publicly funded research is freely accessible and licensed in such a way that it can be re-used and built upon. LLC Research Services are engaging with similarly placed teams across…

  • Accessing the ONS Secure Research Service

    Accessing secure research data as an accredited researcher – Assured Organisational Connectivity to the Secure Research Service The University of Dundee has recently secured Assured Organisational Connectivity (AOC) with the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Secure Research Service (SRS). SRS provides accredited researchers secure access to de-identified, unpublished data. There are over 100 datasets available,…

  • How far did they travel? Post-graduate research theses, 2020.

    Happy New Year from LLC Research Services! Those of you with an eye on Twitter will have noticed that at the end of 2020 @UoDOpenResearch put out a series of tweets highlighting our most downloaded theses. The information was taken from IRUS, a service which allows us to track downloads from the Discovery Research Portal…

  • Wellcome Trust 2021 OA Policy – Retention of IP Rights

    On 1 January 2021, Wellcome Trust will require that all funded authors retain the necessary intellectual property rights to comply with their new Open Access Policy.  This can be accomplished through one of the following three publication routes: Publish in a fully open access journal or platform under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.…

  • Two more funders join cOAlition S

    Two more organisations have joined cOAlition S, the consortium of leading research organisations committed to full and immediate open access to publications. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the largest private biomedical research institution in the United States, and their new Open Access policy takes effect from 1st January 2022. The Templeton World Charity Foundation…

  • Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy 2021

    Wellcome Trust will implement a new Open Access policy on 1 January 2021.  The policy will apply to all original, peer reviewed research articles that acknowledge Wellcome Trust funding and are submitted for publication from 1 January 2021.   Publication Costs Wellcome Trust will continue to support article processing charges (APCs) for open access journals…

  • An ORCID sets you apart from the crowd

    An ORCID is a unique, digital identifier that connects you, your research, and your affiliations. Having one makes you easily identifiable as the author/creator of a research output, meaning you get the appropriate credit for it. Your ORCID comes with an online profile that can be linked to systems like Discovery (the University of Dundee’s research…

  • Introduction to Research & Resources

    The Library & Learning Centre and Culture & Information directorate supports learning, teaching, and research activities across the University of Dundee’s ten Schools and all their diverse disciplines. Within our LLC&CI directorate, the Research and Resources Division contributes by managing a complex array of licenses, software, services, physical and electronic resources. This work is reliant…