Fred Friend, Honory Director of scholarly communication at UCL, makes some observations and comments on the impact of the Finch recommendations in the UK...
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Research Data Management (RDM) has become one of the hottest topics in research coordination. Several institutions have specialized in helping researchers, project coordinators and supporting staff out with RDM. OpenAIRE finds out more...
In April 2013, the University of Luxemburg announced the establishment of ORBilu , their new institutional repository. It comes with a so called 'deposit mandate', and OpenAIRE wanted to hear about a researchers' first experience.
The Veg-i-Trade project is coordinated by Ghent University, and is a good example of how OpenAIRE can support projects to make research output available in Open Access. After being contacted by the Belgian NOAD, the Ghent researchers from the project decided to collect all their Veg-i-Trade publications in the OpenAIRE compliant repository Biblio.
Archaeology: a rocky road towards OA. What if Open Access is obviously the best choice in your discipline, but there aren't much discipline-specific outlets? Self-archiving is the way to go!