Author: Angela Groth-Seary

Predatory journals are a growing issue. By 2015 more than half a million papers had been published in journals known to be predatory, and Jeffrey Beall’s … Read more

Happy New Year to all of our readers. For 2018, we’d like to promote scholarly communications activities that will ensure that your research is open … Read more

We met Dr Adelina Gschwandtner (School of Economics) at the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) launch event in September, and since then Adelina has worked … Read more

Parliament would like researchers to engage with them: last week they unveiled a new website with guidance for researchers wanting to share their work. I … Read more

The revised guidelines for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) were released on Tuesday (21st) – they can be read in full at http://www.ref.ac.uk/news/2017/decisionsonstaffandoutputs.html. This … Read more

Reddit is a social news website that has become a major driver of traffic to blog posts, videos, images and news articles. Reddit offers a significant platform for … Read more

This post was written by Sarah Slowe, Head of the Office for Scholarly Communications. Sarah tweets as @HeadUniKentOSC.   This is the first post on … Read more

As part of Open Access week here at Kent we were delighted to see the launch of an exciting new board game called The Publishing … Read more

Post written by Helen Cooper, our Research Support Librarian. This blog was first published on the IT & Library news blog here. What do we … Read more

Written by Christine Buckley (Library Assistant, Scholarly Communications)   In support of Open Access week we are taking a look at some of the support … Read more