Open Research and Rights Retention

A number of case studies from the N8 showcasing examples of successful open research practice.

Why northern universities are taking a stand on Rights Retention

Rights Retention is the next step on the journey towards a fully open access global research environment. It allows our researchers to retain copyright and Intellectual property on their work and in so doing place that research immediately on publication in our repositories regardless of publisher’s embargoes. Without this ability researchers will find themselves caught between those publisher policies and many funders’, including UKRI mandates on immediate open access.

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Trailblazers

Trailblazers is a new Open Access (OA) initiative for the rising stars of their disciplines. Built on collaboration and knowledge-sharing between the libraries of Lancaster University, University of Liverpool, University of Salford, and the distinguished publisher Liverpool University Press, Trailblazers combines Open Access book publication, to maximise the opportunity for impact from early career research, with a series of author boot camps, which will equip Early Career Researchers with the knowledge and skills to support the publication of their work throughout their careers.

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Sheffield Open Research

Open Research is the practice of making the processes and outputs of research transparent and freely accessible, whenever possible, and it is key to enabling and promoting research excellence across our community.

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Tom Stafford from University of Sheffield discusses N8's Rights Retention Statement

Tom Stafford from University of Sheffield discusses N8's Rights Retention Statement

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Sheffield Doctoral Publishing Prize

The Sheffield Doctoral Publishing Prize aims to celebrate doctoral research at the University of Sheffield, enabling recent PhD graduates to explore opportunities to develop their doctoral research into an open access book published by the University of Sheffield’s academic publisher White Rose University Press.

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ReproduceMe

ReproduceMe: lessons from a pilot project on computational reproducibility.

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