An author's guide to Open Access. Talk given to RCSI researchers at Open Access Week, 2022
Andrew Simpson, RCSI Associate Librarian - Education, Research and Clinical Support
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7 do’s of DMPs Talk given to RCSI researchers at Open Access Week, 2022
Ruth Geraghty, RCSI Research Data Coordinator
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My OA story - experiences from a researcher. Talk given to RCSI researchers at Open Access Week, 2021
Frank Moriarty, PI and senior lecturer at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences.
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FOSTER Open Science Training Courses
European partners have come together to carry out EU funded projects in open science. Courses include introductions to open sciences, managing open data, open access publishing, ethics and open licensing.
PaPOR TraIL: Principles and Practices of Open Research
Provided by UCC, this course is aimed at undergraduates and includes modules on introduction to open science, research integrity, research data management, knowledge dissemination and others.
FAIRSFAIR – fostering FAIR data practice in Europe
Reports, handbooks, frameworks and courses from the FAIRsFAIR project, supplying practical solutions to the use of FAIR data principles at all stage of the research data life cycle
ARDC – Australian Research Data Commons
ARDC’s Resource Hub contains guides and skill-based materials on, amongst other things, sensitive data, research software, good data practices.
Various working groups have researched the skills and competencies required to put open science into practice. A selection of reports, posters and visualisations:
Providing researchers with the skills and competencies they need to practise Open Science. European Commission, 2017
Open Science Skills Visualisation. Digital Skills for Library Staff and Researchers Working Group, LIBER, 2020
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, produced by Jason Schmitt, provides focus on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google. For more information please visit: Paywallthemovie.com