Tag Archives: Researchers

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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Open Access Week – What is the Open Climate Campaign?

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Karen Rowlett

The Open Climate Campaign The theme of Open Access week 2022 is Open for Climate Justice. In this interview, I talked to two members of the Open Climate Campaign about their efforts to make research relating to climate change open … 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 – 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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CentAUR stats for November 2020

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Karen Rowlett
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The Milestones Project

Posted on September 22, 2020 by

What is the Milestones project? Why did we do it? Every month since November 2019, the Research Engagement Team has been sending out congratulatory emails to University of Reading authors whose CentAUR items have achieved 500 lifetime downloads as part … Continue reading →

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CentAUR statistics for August 2019

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Karen Rowlett
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CentAUR statistics for July 2019

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Karen Rowlett
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