The University of Surrey has launched its Open Research Position Statement, which publicly supports the values of openness, transparency and reproducibility in research. The position statement was written by Surrey Library’s Open Research team and Professor Emily...
Read here to find out more about Project TIER and Dr Piekut’s plans for promoting reproducibility practices at the University of Sheffield in partnership with the Sheffield Reproducibility Network.
The problem Open research practices have the potential to benefit the entire research community, but could be perceived by some researchers as a threat to their career under the ‘publish-or-perish’ paradigm. For example, the widespread sharing of data and code could...
The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is teaming up with the Open Research Calendar to help collate open research events under a single accessible resource. An ever increasing number of conferences, seminars, and courses are being organised around topics of open...
King’s College London has become a formal institutional member of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), a network of UK universities collaborating to promote robust research practices, such as open research and reproducibility. Visit King’s College website for...
Here’s a story about sharing practice in rewarding Open Research. The University of Groningen has launched an Open Research Award competition. It was inspired by and directly modelled on a competition run at the University of Reading. This came about because people at...
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has released a major report on research integrity – Research integrity: a landscape study. This was commissioned by UKRI in order to understand the effects of incentives in the research system on researcher behaviour. The report was...
Fast, cheap, good – you can pick two… The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is a peer-led consortium that aims to ensure the UK retains its place as a centre for world-leading research. The UKRN grew from activity across the UK seeking to understand the factors that...
Last Thursday, Wiley publishers brought their workshop on How to publish successfully in an open research world to the University of Bristol. The Wiley team worked closely with members of the UKRN in Bristol to design and organise the event, and it all seemed to come...
UK universities will collaborate to improve the quality of UK academic research output. Whilst the UK is at the leading edge of research globally, there is a need to constantly strive to improve in order to retain that position. Crucially, we must produce research...
