Open Research Programme: May 2023 update
Back in December I said that I would try to provide regular updates here on the UKRN Open Research Programme; apologies for not having done this as much as I would have liked; it has been a busy time. Several more UKRN institutions have expressed interest in being a...
UKRN joins the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)
The UK Reproducibility Network has signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (ARRA) and has joined the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, CoARA. If rigour and transparency in research are to be better recognised and rewarded, then research...
UKRN welcomes report from the House of Commons inquiry on Reproducibility and Research Integrity
The UKRN welcomes the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s report on Reproducibility and Research Integrity. The Committee has produced an important and valuable review of the landscape, together with practical recommendations that...
UKRN First Working Paper on Training Priorities and Resources
Following a recent survey of UKRN institutions, UKRN have identified a range of training priorities and resources aimed at accelerating the uptake of high quality open research practices. Although many high-quality resources exist within UKRN institutions, only 10.5%...
Rights retention: A Primer from UKRN
When authors retain the rights to their accepted manuscripts, they and others are able to reuse that material for research, teaching, in books, online, and to meet funder open access requirements. UKRN today releases another in its series of primers to introduce key...
New resources designed to introduce high school pupils to open research
Open Research in the Classroom An initiative providing resources aiming to introduce open research and reproducibility concepts to high school and undergraduate students. Students from the University of Edinburgh have developed a set of educational resources aiming to...
Research culture catalogue for improved collaboration and healthy competition
People in UK institutions are investing a lot of time, attention and, especially perhaps with support from Research England, money into enhancing research culture. There are several reasons why UKRN sees this as both important and highly relevant to our mission. For...
UKRN-Jisc report on collaborating across diverse professions
Without a whole range of professional and technical staff in institutions, open research would be next to impossible. The skills and roles needed to enable open research can be found right across an institution, from the library to the marketing and communications...