Knowledge Exchange news

Welcome to the latest edition of the Knowledge Exchange newsletter. We’ve been quiet on the newsletter front but it has been a very busy year so far with new staff members and experts joining us.  As well as moving to the next phase of current activities, we have embarked on new exciting ones too!

We continue to grow our network of knowledgeable experts and are very grateful for the invaluable contribution that they bring. Their participation is crucial to the success of our activities.

We are seeing our activities flow naturally from one to the other showing that each can shape another. Outcomes of our Preprints activity has led to what we are currently doing with Alternative Publishing Platforms and our work on FAIR Data can build on results from our work around Publishing Reproducible Research Output.

In this newsletter, we bring you an update on Alternative Publishing Platforms, FAIR Data and Software and introduce you to a new activity, Small Publishers and the Transition to Open Access.

Current Activities

FAIR Data and Software supporting Reproducible Research   

What do you need to develop reproducible research and make this common practice? How can institutional managers help you? We want to make research better and believe that reproducibility can do this.

FAIR Data and Software supporting Reproducible Research is one of our strategic priority areas. The KE Task and Finish Group have now scoped this activity and you can find out more here.

Alternative Publishing Platforms

Are you confused by all of the alternative publishing platforms that now exist? There are many ways to communicate or disseminate research. Next to peer-reviewed academic articles, monographs, conference proceedings, or theses we also see preprint repositories, data journals, specialist data and code repositories, trials registries, scholarly blogs and websites, different forms of peer review, micropublications and more. This work aims to help you understand the pros and cons of these different platforms.

Click here to find out more

New Activity!

Small Publishers and the Transition to Open Access

We are aiming to understand what a small journal is and what the challenges they may face in transitioning to open access are. With this information, our goal is to provide recommendations to help these essential actors with a successful conversion to open access.

Read more about this activity here

Other News

Update on the Openness Profile

Published last year, the Openness Profile: Modelling research evaluation for open scholarship report explores the mechanisms and approaches required to improve and incentivise the recording, evaluation and recognition of contributions to Open Scholarship practice. We believe that getting recognition for open science efforts is vital for the change towards increased openness of research and we are delighted that this work was included in the Horizon Europe proposal on research assessment. The findings were also presented at the Educause Annual Conference 2021 and to the French Cancer Institute’s working group on evaluation and assessment.

Publishing Reproducible Research Output work shared

We were pleased to see that our work on Publishing Reproducible Research Output was discussed at the LIBER 2022 conference. The conference brought together library directors and their staff to share ideas on how to address their most urgent needs. This work will also be presented at the Charleston conference taking place later this year.

Update on PID infrastructure – Risks and Trust

We continue our work in pursuit of a well functioning persistent identifier infrastructure for research with scidecode science consulting to investigate persistent identifiers (PIDs). This year we will publish a case-study and report with the findings which we are excited to be able to share with you.

Welcome to all newcomers!

As mentioned earlier, there have been some changes to the Knowledge Exchange team. We welcome Christina Hemme as the new KE group member on behalf of DFG. Georgia Hemings is fulfilling the role of Project and Administration officer to cover for Sarah James who is on maternity leave. Priscilla Dibble joined as Support and Communication officer and all are very happy to help you with any queries that you may have.

We would like to welcome our new experts Minna Ala-Mantila, Kirsty Wallis, Jenny Delasalle, Gül Akcaova, Arianna Becerril-García and Daniel Nüst.

And we say goodbye and thank you to Stéphanie Cheviron.

Take care and keep an eye on our website and social channels for further updates!

The purpose of Knowledge Exchange is to exchange knowledge, build expert networks and cooperate between partners, with a special focus on Open Access and Open Science.

KE has an open eye for emerging opportunities to enhance and support an open higher education and research infrastructure.

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