Medical Library
1. Why is it important to license your research outputs?
2. Open Data – moving science forward or a waste of time and money?
3. The new name for the University of Cambridge data repository is… Apollo!
4. Job vacancy: Institutional Repository Manager
5. Open scholarship and links to academic integrity, reward & recognition
6. Data Insights Cambridge – meetup group for data enthusiasts
7. How to share and cite research data? – Case studies
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1. Why is it important to license your research outputs?
Are you publishing your research – be it publications or research data? Pop over to our dedicated seminars to learn how to prevent misuse of your research. Get to know what types of licences there are for your research, and decide what others can/cannot do with it. And most importantly, learn how to ensure that you are always credited for your work. To register for the events, simply click on the links below:
How to license your own work?
Monday 5 October, 12.30 – 13.30, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
How to license research data?
Monday 12 October, 12.30 – 13.30, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
2. Open Data – moving science forward or a waste of time and money?
Thursday 4 November 19.00 – 22.00, Department of Engineering, Cambridge
Are you aware of the new funders’ requirements for sharing research data? Will Open Science and sharing research data benefit society and help move science forward? Or is Open Data simply a waste of time and money?
Come to the Open Data panel discussion and take part in a conversation led by:
- Rafael Carazo-Salas, Group Leader, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
- Sarah Jones, Senior Institutional Support Officer, Digital Curation Centre
- Frances Rawle, Head of Corporate Governance and Policy, Medical Research Council
- Tim Smith, Group Leader, Collaboration and Information Services, CERN/Zenodo
- Mark Thorley, Research Councils UK Open Access Policy, and Natural Environment Research Council
Read the full programme and register here.
3. The new name for the University of Cambridge data repository is… Apollo!
Congratulations to Dan Barnes from the Academic Division for coming up with ‘Apollo’ – the winning name for the University of Cambridge data repository. Dan Barnes won a £25 voucher to enjoy coffee at Aromi cafeteria.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the repository name competition – we received 30 great name propositions. And thanks to all 58 people who took part in our vote for the best name and helped us to pick ‘Apollo’ as the best name for the repository.
Apollo is a god of learning, healing and creativity; the god of truth and light and leader of the Muses. This makes him the perfect symbol for a cross-disciplinary repository containing research from every branch of the University – Arts, Humanities, Science and Medicine.
During the next couple of months we will be re-branding the repository name to ‘Apollo’.
4. Job vacancy: Institutional Repository Manager
Deadline: 4 October
We are currently looking for an enthusiastic individual to work within the Office of Scholarly Communications as the Manager of Institutional Repository. The funding landscape in the UK now requires that the outputs of funded research, such as research articles, conference proceedings and supporting research data are made publicly available. The University’s digital repository houses a wide range of research outputs of the University, ranging from published articles and conference papers, through to datasets, theses, videos and molecules. This is an exciting opportunity for personal development and for contributing to greater openness in research.
Read more and apply here: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/7992/
5. Open scholarship and links to academic integrity, reward & recognition
Wednesday, 7 October, 11.00 – 12.00, University Library, West Road, Cambridge
How is Open Access (to data, methods and findings) linked to academic integrity and research conduct? What are the correlations between citation counts and research visibility? Where are open monographs headed? Please join us for an opportunity to hear from a leading expert in the open access community, Emeritus Professor Tom Cochrane who is briefly visiting Cambridge from Queensland University of Technology in Australia. During his tenure as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support), Professor Cochrane introduced the world’s first University-wide open access mandate, in January 2004. Amongst his many commitments Professor Cochrane serves on the Board of Knowledge Unlatched (UK) is a member of the Board of Enabling Open Scholarship (Europe) and is co-leader of the Creative Commons project for which QUT is the institutional partner for Australia.
Professor Cochrane’s profile page is here.
Read the full programme and register here.
6. Data Insights Cambridge – meetup group for data enthusiasts
Data Insights Cambridge is a diverse and vibrant community of data enthusiasts, with diverse backgrounds and interests at the cutting edge of data science. From PhD students and researchers, to industry professionals, experts in machine learning, mathematical analysis, computer science, engineering, statistics, and bioinformatics. Our members are interested in generating insights from data, making decisions from intelligence and meeting people facing similar challenges.
Monthly events are informal and friendly, offering relaxed networking and high quality talks from leaders in diverse fields.
Read more and join here.
7. How to share and cite research data? – Case studies
The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication’s Special Issue on sharing, publication and citation of research data is now available here with interesting case studies:
- Going Beyond Availability: Truly Accessible Research Data
- Hidden Treasures – Opening Data in PhD Dissertations
- Making Student Research Data Discoverable
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