October 2023 Newsletter
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UKRN Indicators of Open Research
Indicators of Open Research A workshop was hosted by the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), Public Library of Science (PLOS) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) on 4th October 2023 A short informal note is available here to summarise the main topics covered in the...
Spotlight on University of Edinburgh Open Research
Recently Diane Hird, the LNL Community Project Coordinator, met with Emma Wilson and Dr Will Cawthorn to learn more about the Edinburgh Open Research Initiative (EORI). This blog is the result of that conversation. Huge thanks to Emma and Will for their time. EORI is...
UKRN Response to REF28 initial decisions and Research Environment
There is increasing attention on the research environment, culture and the importance of recognising and welcoming a wide range of talent in research. Just in the last few weeks, the Royal Society of Chemistry released their vision for science culture, the University...
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...
September 2023 Newsletter
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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...