Tag Archives: Research outputs

Open Access Week 2022 – ibicus – a python open-source software package for the bias correction of climate models

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Karen Rowlett

The theme of the 2022 Open Access week was Open for Climate Justice. PhD researchers Fiona Spuler and Jakob Wessel are working on the biases in climate models that lead to difficulties in relating the findings of global climate models … Continue reading →

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Making the most of SciFree – an interview with the company’s founder

Posted on October 26, 2022 by Karen Rowlett

SciFree is a clever tool that helps researchers at University of Reading find out which journals are covered by our Transformative Agreements and deals with publishers. With 17 publisher deals covering over 11,000 different journals it can be difficult to … Continue reading →

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School for Agriculture Policy and Development Open Research Competition 2022/2023

Posted on October 26, 2022 by Robert Darby

This School for Agriculture Policy and Development (SAPD) Open Research Competition will recognize and reward researchers and students who aim to contribute to making research more accessible, transparent, or reproducible and who can demonstrate understanding of the principles and aims … Continue reading →

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Launching SciFree, a new tool for researchers at University of Reading

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Karen Rowlett

The University of Reading has lots of Transformative Agreements with publishers whereby staff and students can achieve Open Access for their research outputs easily. In most cases, no invoices are generated and permission for funding for the article processing charge … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2022 – The evolution of Open Access for journal articles at University of Reading

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Karen Rowlett

Open Access – part of the University’s commitment to Open Research At the University of Reading, we’ve been encouraging our researchers to make their work Open Access for many years either by publishing their outputs as Gold Open Access or … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2021 – Free Research Resources LibGuide

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Karen Rowlett

Recently, the University of Reading Library launched a LibGuide about free, Open Access resources. This project aligns closely with this year’s theme for International Open Access Week, as the LibGuide is designed for our diverse, alumni community and researchers anywhere … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2021 – Publishing on the Wellcome Open Research platform, an interview with Dr Al Edwards

Posted on October 29, 2021 by Karen Rowlett

Wellcome Open Research was launched in 2016 as a platform for the publication of a wide range of submissions from Wellcome Trust-funded researchers. The platform, based on the same model as F1000Research, works on the publish first and peer review later model. … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2021 – Why publish your work as a preprint? An interview with Dr Al Edwards

Posted on October 28, 2021 by Karen Rowlett

There has been a huge increase in the number of outputs uploaded to preprint servers over the last few years. Why are researchers opting for this route and what benefits does it bring? What is a preprint?A preprint is a … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2021 – Publishing a Registered Report: an interview with Jayne Morriss

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Karen Rowlett

One of the aims of the Open Research movement is to make the research process more transparent, accountable and reproducible. Writing a Registered Report has been proposed as a way of eliminating publication bias from the scholarly communication process. Usually studies … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2021 – Publishing Open Software, an interview with Brendan Williams

Posted on October 26, 2021 by Karen Rowlett

Software can be an important research output in some disciplines such as the physical and life sciences. One of the aims of the open research movement is to encourage researchers who generate software or code as part of their projects … Continue reading →

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