Know your MyRA
December 9, 2019
This blog shares with all academic staff some insights on the way that institutional research performance is assessed by the Ministry of Education. All of our academic staff should certainly be familiar with MyRA as we are in the final stages of data collection for 2019. MyRA® is an acronym for the Malaysian Research Assessment …
Open Access week 2019 : Open science data?
October 25, 2019
So far this week, I’ve been writing about open access publishing of academic manuscripts. But the data itself behind those articles is an increasingly important community resource. Open science data promotes public access to observations and results of scientific activities so that anyone can analyse and reuse, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other controls. …
Open Access week 2019 : Nottingham E-Repository and ResearchGate
October 24, 2019
Here at UNM, we’re keen for you to make Nottingham research outputs available to a global audience. Nottingham ePrints is a searchable digital archive which provides the green route to open access for research outputs (articles, conference papers etc produced by University of Nottingham authors), and theses submitted for University of Nottingham research degrees. You can deposit …
Open Access week 2019: Which license?
October 23, 2019
In Monday’s blog, I explained that when you publish by traditional routes, as an author you typically grant all your rights as author and copyright owner to the publisher. It doesn’t belong to you anymore. A benefit of full open access publishing is that the copyright on your article is retained by you. You simply …
Open Access week 2019: Who pays?
October 22, 2019
Publishers are businesses that make money out of managing academic journals. Academic publishers have two main income streams (excluding advertising revenue). The first income stream is from reader subscriptions. For example, our library at UNM pays publishers through annual journal subscriptions so that it can make them accessible to academic staff and students. This is …
Open Access week 2019: Green or Gold routes
October 21, 2019
When you publish by traditional routes, as an author you typically grant all your rights as author and copyright owner to the publisher. It doesn’t belong to you anymore. This means that if you want to do anything with your work, such as making it available on a website (like ResearchGate) or re-use a figure …
Enhancing research transparency
September 3, 2019
In this blog post, I’d like to highlight several innovative opportunities to publish your research methodologies in ways that promote good study design, data collection and analysis, rather than delaying until the final result. These new formats help to uphold the integrity of scholarship across disciplines. All academic staff share a sense of pressure to …
University of Nottingham UK establishes its first wave of Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (IRCs)
August 6, 2019
The Global Research Themes (GRT) and Interdisciplinary Research Cluster (IRC) programme continues to be a significant and well-supported component of the Research Strategy at the University of Nottingham UK (UNUK), in addition to the six Beacons of Excellence. In this blog, Prof Deborah Hall, Vice-Provost (Research and Knowledge Exchange) summarises a recent announcement about this …
International Research Collaboration Award
July 15, 2019
It’s one year since I started my post as its hard to know where the time has gone! I’ve been working tirelessly to understand how to enhance the research environment at UNM, and my second year will focus on implementing many of the plans that I have been co-developing with staff and PGRs. From now …
Research funding opportunities from the Graduate School
May 6, 2019
In this blog post, Professor Deborah Hall University’s new Vice-Provost (Research and Knowledge Exchange) introduces three strategic funding opportunities. These will promote three exciting funding initiatives to support research collaboration as well as personal development of our academic researchers. The Graduate School is committed to providing doctoral students and early career staff with the skills and confidence to maximise …
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