UKRI has published a new Open Access (OA) policy. This post outlines the university’s response, and what we are doing to help our researchers meet … Read more
Category: Research support
New UKRI Open Access policy – what researchers can do
UKRI has published a new Open Access policy. This post provides some very early advice about what you could start doing now as a researcher … Read more
Accessibility and inclusion news: Technical improvements to our institutional and data repositories
Both the Kent Academic Repository (KAR) and the Kent Data Repository (KDR) have been around for some time but needed work to improve accessibility. … Read more
What happens when you find your open access PhD thesis for sale on Amazon?
Last year a number of early career academics discovered that their PhD theses, which had been deposited in institutional open access repositories, were being sold … Read more
How to Archive your Website
If you are including a website as part of your research project to either disseminate, gather or process data, you need to consider how you … Read more
Finding Open Research Data
Data are information in a raw form. They are the basic unit of knowledge before analysis or interpretation takes place. Research data is the basis … Read more
You’ve got your APC funding – which licence should you choose?
You’ve opted for open access, you’ve got funding, but now your publisher offers you a choice of licence – which should you choose An APC … Read more
Support for Systematic Reviews
Are you tackling a systematic review but not sure where to start? Struggling to define your review question or come up with a clear search … Read more
REF submission books added to our library collections
Packed and ready to go All the books and books chapters that the University has submitted to the REF have been purchased and processed as … Read more
Open Access Success in our REF Submission
This pie represents all of our REF submission articles and papers that are available open access. The thin sliver represents the tiny amount that are … Read more