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...
Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and Research England funding announcement
Today the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) has joined Research England in providing funds to support Scottish institutions currently participating in the UKRN Open Research Programme. The programme initially received significant funding to enable English institutions to...
Dorothy Bishop Prize 2023 Winners
The Dorothy Bishop prize was created to celebrate the contributions of early career researchers working to promote open research and improve research culture. This year we are pleased to announce the three prize winners (in randomised order): Natalie Zelenka Natalie...Indicators of Open Research: UKRN call for priorities
Today UKRN is launching a call for members of the research community to help us prioritise which aspects of open research are most important for us to monitor. Our particular focus is on helping institutions to monitor those aspects of openness and transparency in...Open Research Programme welcomes new Institutional Partner
The UKRN Open Research Programme has a new partner. Northumbria University has become the 21st institution in the programme, which aims to accelerate the uptake of high quality open research practices, through training, reform of recognition of reward, and...