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Category Archives: Research Data Management
University of Reading Open Research Award 2021
The University of Reading’s Open Research Award 2021 online celebration took place on the afternoon of Wednesday 9th June. Wellcome Trust Lecturer in English Literature Dr Alanna Skuse won the Award with an outstanding case study on the challenges and … Continue reading
Open Research at Reading 2017-2019: what have we achieved?
In March 2017 we held our first Open in Practice conference. It was our first opportunity to consider as a research community how we can support and enable better access to research outputs, more transparent and collaborative research processes, and greater … Continue reading
Talking about Open Research at the University of Reading
Are you an Open Researcher? Do you support or promote Open Research? Did the conference convert you? If you’ve got an Open Research story to tell and would like to write a post for our blog, please drop me a … Continue reading
5 things to do with data in 2017
Let us not curse them with the name of New Year’s Resolutions. It’s a bit late for that anyway. But here are five simple and positive things you can do with your research data this year. 1. Be ‘as open … Continue reading
Towards Open Research: a new report from the Wellcome Trust
October this year saw publication of Towards Open Research: Practices, experiences, barriers and opportunities, a study investigating researcher’s attitudes and behaviours in respect of open research, commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, and based on surveys of researchers and focus groups … Continue reading
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Tagged Code sharing, Data Sharing, Open Access, Open Research
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An open data snapshot
The State of Open Data, a selection of articles and analyses based on a survey of over 2,000 researchers, was published in October this year by Digital Science, owners of the popular figshare research outputs repository. Key survey findings are … Continue reading
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New UK Concordat on Open Research Data
What is this talk about open data? Why do I have to complete a data management plan when I apply for grant funding? What am I supposed to do with my data? If you’ve asked yourself any of these questions, … Continue reading
Is your spreadsheet program altering your data?
The move to providing the underlying data behind research articles has been a major step towards promoting reproducibility, transparency and data re-use. However, analyses of the quality and annotation of published data sets can sometimes reveal significant and widespread problems. Excel … Continue reading
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The Research Data Archive: one year on
Yes, it really is one year since the University’s Research Data Archive was launched, on 7 September 2015. This is an apt moment to reflect on our first year of service and the outlook for the future. What is the … Continue reading
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