News Roundup July 2017

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UKCoRR Members’ Meeting

The Members’ Meeting of the United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR) was held on Friday 7 July at the University of Warwick, giving repository and open access workers the chance to share their experiences and discuss the future of the organisation. The programme and slides from presentations can be found here.

The Academic Book of the Future

Following the publication of the final project reports in June, The Academic Book of the Future has itself now been published by UCL Press. Described as a ‘dynamic, innovative, evolving and open platform’, this BOOC (Books as Open Online Content) includes contributions from various stakeholders in academia, publishing, bookselling and libraries, on subjects including the role of peer review, open access, and digital publishing and technology.

Open Research Central

F1000 have launched Open Research Central (ORC), a central platform to enable the publication of open research from any field. The principles underpinning the service are identified as: immediate publication; open data; open, transparent post publication peer review; and open access to all. Partners so far include Wellcome Open Research, Gates Open Research, and UCL Child Health Open Research, with more expected to join.

RCUK Open Access Block Grants

Research Councils UK have confirmed that their OA block grants will continue at current levels until 2020, funding costs relating to articles published in peer reviewed journals that have resulted from RCUK funded research and which acknowledge Research Council Funding.

Portability of Research

Following their REF consultation earlier this year the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) have identified that the portability or non-portability of research (i.e. which institution can claim credit for research when staff move) was the most contentious issue for respondents. The arguments for and against portability, and different ways that the rules on it could be implemented, are outlined in this blog post and the discussion remains open.

Exporting Mentions in Altmetric Explorer

Altmetric have added a new feature to their Explorer platform, allowing users to export mentions for sets of outputs into a spreadsheet so they can more easily gain insights into who is talking about their research. Some introductory instructions are available here.

SPARC Author Addendum Survey

SPARC Europe are looking for feedback on their Author Addendum tool, developed for authors to help them modify copyright transfer agreements and retain rights when publishing in non-OA journals. The survey is open until the end of August 2017.

Repository Summary July 2017

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Below you will find a summary of UWL Repository activity for July 2017. We will provide this data each month, showing the most talked about outputs (highest Altmetric scores) and the most downloaded outputs. Links to these papers are included below so you access these via our open access repository.

The top 5 most downloaded outputs for July 2017:

1. Berridge, Graham (2015) Event experiences: design, management and impact. Doctoral thesis, University of West London.

2. Brown, Roger (2015) The marketisation of higher education: issues and ironies. New Vistas, 1 (1). pp. 4-9.

3. Pappas, Nikolaos (2015) Marketing strategies, perceived risks, and consumer trust in online buying behaviour. Journal of Retailing & Consumer Services, 29. pp. 92-103.

4. Demeke, Wegene (2014) Small and Micro Business Enterprises (SMBEs) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: development and poverty reduction through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), with particular reference to the hotel industry and associated businesses. Doctoral thesis, University of West London.

5. Lorimer, Ray (2014) The attitudes and behaviour of hotel chefs and chef lecturers regarding the use of convenience ingredients. Masters thesis, University of West London.

The top 3 most talked about papers:

1. Duncan, Khaleelah M., MacGillivray, Steve and Renfrew, Mary J. (2017) Costs and savings of parenting interventions: results of a systematic review. Child: Care, Health and Development.

2. Wilson, Jennie, Prieto, Jacqui, Singleton, Julie, O’Connor, Vivienne, Lynam, Siobhan and Loveday, Heather (2015) The misuse and overuse of non-sterile gloves: application of an audit tool to define the problem. Journal of Infection Prevention, 16 (1). pp. 24-31.

3. Pettit, Sophie, Qureshi, Adam, Lee, William, Stirzaker, Alex, Gibson, Alex, Henley, William and Byng, Richard (2017) Variation in referral and access to new psychological therapy services by age: an empirical quantitative study. British Journal of General Practice, 67 (660). e453-e459.

Our data is provided by EPrints (via the UWL Repository), IRUS-UK, and Altmetric.