On Wednesday 23rd September I will be leading a training session on “Writing a Successful Technical Plan for the AHRC”. Prof. Richard Bibb, an AHRC Technical Plan reviewer, will also be in attendance to give a reviewer’s perspective. The session will be held in the Stewart Mason Building (room SMB .02) between 1200 and 1300. […]
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Loughborough’s data repository has recently been upgraded with additional functionality. You can still deposit data as an individual (please contact rdm@lboro.ac.uk for more information or if you wish to deposit data) but you can now also set up “Projects”. Currently limited to Loughborough University members, Projects allows you to set up a collaborative space where […]
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Although it is usually funder policies which are seen to push the research data management (RDM) agenda, a number of publishers also have data policies. Three of these policies are identified below: PLOS: PLOS state in their policy that “PLOS journals require authors to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available […]
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Last week we attended the Association of Research Managers and Administrators‘ (ARMA) annual conference in Brighton. We were presenting on our Research Data Repository which was launched at the end of April. Although our session part of the last panel of the conference it was still well attended with representatives from both universities and funders. As part […]
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Today (1st May 2015) is the day when Universities have to be compliant with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s (EPSRC) data expectations. At Loughborough we have been working towards being compliant for the past 18 months or so. These expectations require Loughborough to securely preserve data created by EPSRC funded researchers for at […]
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The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has recently released an updated version of its research data policy. This can be found at: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/about-esrc/information/data-policy.aspx (link to the PDF of the policy at the bottom of the page). The ESRC policy now maps more clearly to the RCUK Common Principles on Data Policy. In addition, the […]
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