COVID-19: support for postgraduate researchers and invitation to a virtual town hall

In my latest update, I am pleased to clarify news of support for the University’s PGRs whose studies have been affected by COVID-19, and supervisors. I’m also inviting UNM’s research community to join me at a virtual town hall meeting that will enable us to consider together what the “new normal” might look like for …

Let’s try to establish a business-as-usual approach during the COVID-19 Closure Period

Your wellbeing remains the University’s absolute priority. I do hope this extended break over the Good Friday Easter weekend provides an opportunity to rest, recharge and enjoy the sunshine. Many of you are aware that our University and higher education in Malaysia continue to face challenging times and the pandemic has resulted in significant pressures …

Transforming lives and unlocking potential for 20 years

This year, the University of Nottingham Malaysia is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Last month, the Corporate Marketing team announced a series of events; some fun, some more serious. In this blog, I will share with you plans for celebrating 20 years of research culture at UNM. Our Graduate School is teaming up with Research and …

Changing how research output is evaluated

In this blog, I introduce a global shift towards the responsible use of publication metrics. It describes the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), explains what this means for UNM, and also opens a call for academic staff to get involved in that decision making process by joining the UNM Task and Finish group …

Know your MyRA

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?

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

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?

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?

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

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 …