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We have, as an institution signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and adopted the Leiden Manifesto  – what do I need to do? … Read more

The University of Kent has affirmed its commitment to the fair assessment of research through the signing of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment … Read more

Now. This would have been my shortest blog post ever, but for the general feeling that it is bad form to have a post with … Read more

Katrine Sundsbø reflects on the UK Forum for Responsible Metrics event, held on the 7th February 2018. The topic ‘responsible metrics’ has gone from hot … Read more

Technology and business innovations are creating new opportunities in scholarly communication which aim to transform scholarly publishing models. These developments have potential to help us … Read more

Love them or loathe them, metrics are here… and like the fabled buses, come along in groups. Navigating the code language and acronym soup (JIF? … Read more

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