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EPSRC and RCUK policies drive open access to research data; Salford adopts Arkivum and Figshare solution

The history of changes to the intellectual property status of research and scholarship under the rubric of open science.

Until recently, if you mentioned citations many people would immediately think about lists of names and publications at the end of a document and short snippets embedded within the text indicating where the connection applied. But a shift has taken place and citations have now gone far beyond being a simple link between two pieces of paper. Processes have been added, techniques refined and something new has been formed.

I’m part of our digital infrastructure team and I’m going to tell you about the effects of that citation shift and how you can use them to your advantage.

Welcome to the eighth annual Open Access Week! We're joining an international community—researchers and students, doctors and patients, librarians and activists—to celebrate free and open access to knowledge. This is also a time to discuss the barriers and costs of keeping research and information locked up with restrictive licenses and publisher paywalls.

Margaret Henty was Senior Policy Advisor with the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). In practice, this meant looking at all of those legal and policy issues which have an impact on data shari...

The European Commission held a public consultation on open access to research data on July 2 in Brussels inviting statements from researchers, industry, funders, IT and data centre professionals, publishers and libraries. The inputs of these stakeholders will play some role in revising the Commission’s policy and are particularly important for the ongoing negotiations on the next big EU research programme Horizon 2020, where about 25-30 billion Euros would be available for academic research. Five questions formed the basis of the discussion:

How we can define research data and what types of research data should be open?

When and how does openness need to be limited?

How should the issue of data re-use be addressed?

Where should research data be stored and made accessible?

How can we enhance “data awareness” and a “culture of sharing”?-

See more at:http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/16/ec-consultation-on-open-research-data/#sthash.5ShxvDto.dpuf