Author: Sarah Slowe

There is an increasing amount of interest, from many areas, in ‘Plan S’ and how it will affect open scholarship, academic publishing and research funding. … Read more

Building on the work that led to ‘Do you come here often?‘ we held a (mostly virtual) event bringing together DOI providers, institutions, publishers and … Read more

One of the key aims of the OSC is to “maximise dissemination of [your] work through academic and non-academic outlets, social media, alternative publishing platforms, … Read more

When I first started in this role, I confess, I hadn’t much thought about Special Collections and Archives – I knew of the British Cartoon … Read more

As an increasingly “open” research environment is emerging, a new language is forming around it. This emerging lexicon carries with it generations of evolution. How … Read more

Last February, I was taking part in a panel at Research 2 Reader and one of the questions asked was ‘What can publishers do to … Read more

After a busy month (Or couple of months!) including a day in London talking about systematically allocating DOI’s for bookchapters, a few days in Lille … Read more

A small(ish!) group of Research Managers, Administrators and other support may be blearily wandering around campus, or replying to emails a little more sluggishly than … Read more

It was a wintery day in late 2017, when into my inbox drops another email… so far, so uninspiring – this happens as a fairly(!) … Read more

It has been a very quiet month on the blog, for which, my apologies! There are lots of things I would love to write about … Read more