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Team news: OA Week 2018
The dust is settling after International Open Access Week 18 - the Twitter stats tell us that our account - @CamOpenAccess - was one of the top four users of the #OAWeek18 hashtag, so we really were busy! We published an announcement, a blog post and a short film each day, and hosted four fantastic events. Here are the highlights - catch up with full details of all the activity on our OA Week 2018 webpage:
Monday
- We relaunched our Open Access website, a one stop shop for our research community to help demystify the process of meeting funder OA requirements and making a manuscript REF eligible.
- The blog post Cambridge Open Access spend 2013-2018 took the long view on how our Open Access Team has helped Cambridge researchers meet their Open Access obligations over the past five years - a significantly costly business.
- We delivered a workshop for PhD students in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences on Managing your digital information
Tuesday
- We released a compilation of the best copyright resources on the web in one handy document, featuring everything from training session slides to videos.
- The blog post Text and data mining services: an update looked back at 20 months of development around Text and Data Mining support in Cambridge, reporting on the initiatives we have been involved in to raise awareness.
- Our event Learned Societies in the Open era: finding a way forward asked ‘what is a learned society in the 21st century?’ Society members within the University of Cambridge joined representatives from the Royal Society, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in conversation to explore how societies can sustain their place in the academic landscape and answer the challenges created by open access requirements. Read the live tweets from the evening here.
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- We took a step back to reflect on the past Open Access year in numbers, looking at the stats for repository submissions, request a copy, theses, blogs, Twitter and our websites.
- Our blog post In their own words: working in scholarly communication shared the first of our vox pops sent in from ScholComm librarians and people working in research support around the country.
- Our second blog post Blood: in short supply highlighted that the journal Blood has failed to amend the misleading open access options it offers to Research Council and Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) authors since we first called them out for it two years ago. We call those funded by Research Councils or one of the COAF members to consider publishing elsewhere, and encourage all readers to sign our open letter to the editor of Blood.
- By Friday lunchtime it was time to sit down, take a break and eat popcorn whilst watching Paywall the Movie to round off the week's activities.
OA Week 2018 was hugely busy for many organisations in the scholarly communication sector, and we have very much enjoyed reading all the blogs, papers, resources and social media campaigns that have been generated worldwide for the occasion.
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To spread the word to Cambridge PhD alumni that they can make a digital version of their thesis open access at no cost to themselves, our talented colleague Clare Trowell, Marshall Librarian in the Faculty of Economics, has drawn our very own comic strip, Share it, don't just shelve it! We hope it will soon brighten up noticeboards and display screens around the University, as well as featuring in alumni bulletins. Find out more about the alumni theses project here.
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To celebrate #ThesisThursday and OA Week 2018 we highlighted University of Cambridge digital PhD theses that have been made open access in our repository, Apollo. Our series of short films, My thesis, open access and me explores experiences of submitting a digital PhD thesis. Five doctoral graduates and candidates tell us why they uploaded their thesis, and discuss any expectations and concerns they had.
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Conference with confidence: doing workplace research (for librarians)
Tuesday 13 November, Cambridge University Library, Milstein Room
This workshop will help you think about the everyday innovations in your library and how these can be turned into research projects for discussion at future events.
Conference with confidence: refresh your presentation skills (for librarians)
Friday 23 November, Cambridge University Library, Milstein Room
This workshop will take you through the process of creating and delivering a presentation, offer tips on design, outline techniques to deal with nerves and help you to feel more confident in communicating with others.
UKSG One-Day Conference: Doing more with less
Wednesday 14 November, Grange Tower Bridge Hotel, London
More and more, we hear that all members of the knowledge community are expected to do more with less – in terms of creative allocation of budgets; staff numbers, recruitment and training; skills, technologies, and even natural resources. This conference will bring together librarians, publishers, researchers and providers of related technology and services, to share stories and best practice around “doing more with less”
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Today we wished Clair Castle well as she returned to her role as Librarian at the Department of Chemistry after a six month secondment with our (creepy and kooky) Research Data team. We had a Halloween cupcake decorating party in her honour!
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Did you know...
...that we're now on Instagram? Follow cambridgeosc for regular updates on our activities and training.
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