Library Open Research and Publishing. UKRI is developing a new research data policy, which will update and streamline their expectations for sharing and managing research data and other research-relevant digital objects. Dundee survey Between April and August of 2025, UK stakeholders were invited to feedback on a draft…
The University of Dundee has been ranked first in the UK and third globally for the proportion of research outputs made open access, according to the 2025 CWTS Leiden Rankings (Traditional Edition). This remarkable result reflects our University’s long-standing commitment…
It’s the Open Research and Publishing team’s favourite week of the year, International Open Access Week October 20-26, 2025! This year’s theme is: Who Owns Our Knowledge? What better time to shine a spotlight on the University of Dundee’s Rights…
The Library launched a new in-house publishing service this year to support and encourage the sharing of our research in an open and sustainable way. The service includes a number of publishing platforms and provides advice on dissemination strategy help…
Putting these blog contributions together gave us a kaleidoscope of Open Research attitudes and practices from our research community. The contributions in this blogpost are an example of this. We have contributions from a variety of researchers including Open Research…
The two contributions below are from researchers in different fields and at different stages of their careers. Chris is a senior lecturer and Open Research Lead for his School, while Calum is a postgraduate student at the early stage of a research…
Keeping with this year’s Open Access Week theme of Community over Commercialisation, it is important to remember that the value of research outputs to the larger community cannot be measured using traditional bibliometrics alone. Metrics alone cannot capture the full…
The theme for International Open Access Week 2024 is “Community over Commercialisation”. As part of the Library’s OA Week activities, we asked our research community to tell us about their experience of Open Access. One of the most compelling responses…
Its International Open Access Week 2024 (21-27 October). The theme this year is “Community over commercialisation”, a continuation of last year’s theme emphasising the benefits of Open Access to the public and academic community. The theme is still appropriate for…
On Thursday 5th September, Bridget McCall, Michael Duncan, and Kirsty Knowles attended the ICEPOPS Copyright Conference at Leeds Beckett University. This was the fifth year of the conference that takes a lighter look at the labyrinth of copyright. The conference is…