The Office for Scholarly Communication are leading the university’s contribution to the UKRI Open Access Review Consultation, which closes at noon on the 17 April … Read more

Lots of festive facts about Research Support at Kent have been revealed so far! Click on the image below to head to our interactive Advent … Read more

Being the editor of an open access academic journal is incredibly time-consuming and often frustrating, but in my case I enjoy having this kind of … Read more

It’s 11am and I’m already a few coffees deep.  I’m on the hunt for what is clearly the most important paper I will ever read … Read more

Over the last decades there has been an exponential increase in the volume of digital data acquired in all research disciplines. These big data research … Read more

In November 2017 I published Thick Evaluation, a monograph with Oxford University Press.* “How exciting,” I hear you cry, “the world needs more academic books!” But, honestly, it was … Read more

Recently, we have noticed a substantial increase in downloads from our academic repository – there have historically been outlying spikes with the general trend has … Read more

When we set out to run the Scholarly Communication Conference we wanted it to be as accessible and inclusive as we could make it.  We … Read more

Sadly, I can’t find who actually said this for the first time… I got lost in an endless trail of people quoting other people quoting … Read more

The evolving nature of Scholarly Communication roles means that no two roles are the same. These roles can have many elements including repository management, some … Read more