Category: Research support

Do you sometimes spend time in another university town and would like to use their library? Does another academic library have specialist material you’d like … Read more

Over the last two years Information Services has been evaluating and entering into new agreements with journal publishers. These Read and Publish agreements are being … Read more

The contract between academic publisher Elsevier and UK universities is due for renewal in December 2021. What does this mean for Kent? The University of … Read more

Imagine that a newly built public building doesn’t have step free access. Instead, a flight of stairs leads to the front door. The building exists … Read more

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

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

  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

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

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

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