Category: Open Research

A truism that has been proclaimed frequently in recent weeks is that once the coronavirus is tackled and the immediate crisis has passed, “things will … Read more

Research England has said that monographs must be published Open Access for inclusion in the ‘Next REF’ (Somewhat bizarrely, this doesn’t actually refer to the … Read more

Warning to the reader: this post would be nothing without the links. Please click on them, explore them & ask about them – I’d love … 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

Free access to knowledge and open communication between researchers drive creativity, innovation, and development. ScienceOpen is a research discovery platform with over 52 million article … Read more

When Roz and I had Supporting Open Access at Kent—New Staff Roles published, we wrote a blog post about our experience (Tasting our own medicine – … Read more

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