Octopus.ac One Year In
Written by Alexandra Freeman, Octopus.ac founder. I always said that the hard bit of improving the publication (and hence incentive) system in research was not coming up with a better way to do it – after all, that’s quite a low bar – or even in building...
UKRN ORCC releases three primers on Open Research
UKRN is pleased to announce the release of three primers on Open Research. Open research is important because it ensures transparency across the research lifecycle, promoting rigour, reproducibility, and public trust in research. We are pleased that research...
2023 UKRN Local Network Lead Retreat
Written by Vicky Hellon and Alden Conner, The Alan Turing Institute, UK. The UKRN Local Network Leads (LNLs) are the network’s grassroots reproducibility representatives and points of contact at their respective institutions. There are 79 LNLs across 66 institutions...
Training on Open Source Hardware: A primer from UKRN
Open source hardware (OSH) refers to equipment and instrumentation whose designs are made available to anyone for use, modify, and distribute without restrictions in ways that are easily understood. OSH is part of the Open Science Ecosystem, intersecting with open...
UKRN members respond to report on reproducibility and research integrity
The House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee recently released the report of its inquiry into reproducibility and research integrity. It made 23 recommendations, many of which are directly relevant to the UKRN. A short survey of our members’ views...
UKRN 2nd working paper: Open Research Indicators: sector priorities
The recent announcement about initial decisions about REF 2028 noted the increased importance of research culture, people and environment. It highlighted some of the ways in which institutions and disciplinary units of assessment might be able to demonstrate...
Teaching Reproducible Research and Open Science Conference
The University of Sheffield was pleased to host a three day ‘Teaching Reproducible Research and Open Science Conference,’ on June 20-22 as part of the UKRN’s Open Research Training Programme. Project TIER’s Norm Medeiros and Richard Ball led talks, seminars and...Open Research Programme: May 2023 update
Back in December I said that I would try to provide regular updates here on the UKRN Open Research Programme; apologies for not having done this as much as I would have liked; it has been a busy time. Several more UKRN institutions have expressed interest in being a...