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  • Invitation to comment

    Invitation to comment

    The Patients Participate! project has released two deliverables for open community review. The first is a guide to writing Lay Summaries, and forms part of the DCC series of How To guides, pitched at an intermediate level, offering practical advice. We...

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  • Reflections on data sharing

    Reflections on data sharing

    In its outreach and training activities, the DCC has had a long-term interest in reaching new generations of research staff, including doctoral students and those classed as early career researchers. read more

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  • Developing a Community Capability Model Framework for data-intensive research

    Developing a Community Capability Model Framework for data-intensive research

    Lyon, L., Ball, A., Duke, M. and Day, M., 2012. Developing a Community Capability Model Framework for data-intensive research. In: Moore, R., Ashley, K. and Ross, S. (eds.), iPres 2012. Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Information, pp. 9-16.

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  • Developing a Community Capability Model Framework for data-intensive research

    Developing a Community Capability Model Framework for data-intensive research

    Lyon, L., Ball, A., Duke, M. and Day, M., 2012. Developing a Community Capability Model Framework for data-intensive research. In: Moore, R., Ashley, K. and Ross, S. (eds.), iPres 2012. Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Information, pp. 9-16.

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  • A Wellcome development?

    A Wellcome development?

    The Wellcome Trust has announced that it will be strengthening the manner in which it enforces its open access policy. With immediate effect, failure to comply with the policy, which since 2006 has required that all research papers funded by the Trust ...

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  • 6th Bloomsbury Conference

    6th Bloomsbury Conference

    Tomorrow the Patients Participate! project will be speaking at the 6th Bloomsbury Conference which has the theme of Scholarly outreach, impact and outcomes. There is a wide-ranging programme from discussions of open access, persepectives on impact and ...

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  • RAIDmap: coming to a computer near you

    RAIDmap: coming to a computer near you

    The wait is finally over! RAIDmap, the piece of software we have been developing in REDm-MED, is now available for early adoption from SourceForge. RAIDmap is an adaptation of the Compendium information mapping software, tailored for use as a data documentation tool. It uses the National Library of New Zealand’s Metadata Extractor to collect information [...]

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  • Data and the Web Manager

    Data and the Web Manager

    At this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop, data emerged as one of the surprising key themes. Although Web managers are familiar with data (for example in the form of analytics and log data) the three days showed showed t...

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  • Anna Shadbolt on Australian research data management

    Anna Shadbolt on Australian research data management

    Last Friday our colleagues in UKOLN hosted a seminar from Anna Shadbolt, Manager of Information Management Services (part of the library) at the University of Melbourne. She gave us an overview of e-infrastructure and data management in Australia, including particular data management projects at Melbourne, and finished off with a mention of the DMVitals project from [...]

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  • Joint statement on data citation from STM publishers and DataCite

    Joint statement on data citation from STM publishers and DataCite

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