Category: Research

Discovery Research Portal: highlighting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

SDG flags on Discovery home page.

The latest upgrade to the Discovery Research Portal allows us to display how University of Dundee research supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Goals were established in 2015, with the intention of setting global goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. The University of Dundee was placed…Continue Reading Discovery Research Portal: highlighting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Accessing the ONS Secure Research Service

Accessing secure research data as an accredited researcher – Assured Organisational Connectivity to the Secure Research Service The University of Dundee has recently secured Assured Organisational Connectivity (AOC) with the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Secure Research Service (SRS). SRS provides accredited researchers secure access to de-identified, unpublished data. There are over 100 datasets available,…Continue Reading Accessing the ONS Secure Research Service

Predatory Journals.

Sample phising email

What are they and what can you do to avoid getting caught? An unfortunate part of the publishing landscape is the rise of the predatory journal. Unscrupulous “publishers” offer what appears to be comparatively cheap routes to gold open access but do not provide a suitable publishing platform to promote research or sustain openness. They…Continue Reading Predatory Journals.

SafePod coming to Main Library in 2021

SafePod logo shows the text SafePod Secure Data Access

SafePod Network The SafePod Network (SPN) provides a major advance to the way that sensitive datasets can be securely accessed for research purposes.  The SPN is the first service in the world to provide and manage a network of standardised safe settings (SafePods) for secure access to sensitive datasets for research purposes across the UK. …Continue Reading SafePod coming to Main Library in 2021

Making your Researchfish submission easier

Researchfish Logo with text Researchfish by Interfolio

The Project With the Researchfish submission period approaching, we embarked on a new project in Research Services, to help ease the administrative element of the Researchfish submission for our researchers. We heard of a new feature in Researchfish which allowed us to upload publication data linked to awards and started to explore the possibilities using…Continue Reading Making your Researchfish submission easier

How far did they travel? Post-graduate research theses, 2020.

Map of the world with 64 countries highlighted to show reach of theses downloads

Happy New Year from LLC Research Services! Those of you with an eye on Twitter will have noticed that at the end of 2020 @UoDOpenResearch put out a series of tweets highlighting our most downloaded theses. The information was taken from IRUS, a service which allows us to track downloads from the Discovery Research Portal…Continue Reading How far did they travel? Post-graduate research theses, 2020.

Wellcome Trust 2021 OA Policy – Retention of IP Rights

On 1 January 2021, Wellcome Trust will require that all funded authors retain the necessary intellectual property rights to comply with their new Open Access Policy.  This can be accomplished through one of the following three publication routes: Publish in a fully open access journal or platform under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence….Continue Reading Wellcome Trust 2021 OA Policy – Retention of IP Rights

2021 Researchfish submission

Researchfish logo

What is Researchfish? Researchfish is an online facility used by research funders and research organisations, including UKRI and Wellcome Trust, to track the outcomes from their investments.  PIs who have received funding are asked to log the outputs, outcomes and impacts of their work in the system. Find out more from UKRI on reporting your…Continue Reading 2021 Researchfish submission

Two more funders join cOAlition S

Two more organisations have joined cOAlition S, the consortium of leading research organisations committed to full and immediate open access to publications. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the largest private biomedical research institution in the United States, and their new Open Access policy takes effect from 1st January 2022. The Templeton World Charity Foundation…Continue Reading Two more funders join cOAlition S

Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy 2021

Wellcome Trust will implement a new Open Access policy on 1 January 2021.  The policy will apply to all original, peer reviewed research articles that acknowledge Wellcome Trust funding and are submitted for publication from 1 January 2021.   Publication Costs Wellcome Trust will continue to support article processing charges (APCs) for open access journals…Continue Reading Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy 2021

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