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A growing community for electronic research notebooks

Jisc has supported the electronic research notebooks (ERN) community for many years by funding workshops, running case studies, and collecting detailed requirements from the sector.  You can find much of this early work on the research notebooks community website. These efforts led to the creation of the research notebooks working group, which now supports the community through the website managed by the University of Glasgow and by […]

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Moving Ahead with the UK National PID Strategy

This post has been written by MoreBrains Cooperative. Over the past few years, Jisc has been driving conversations about the need for a UK national strategy for persistent identifiers, in response to Professor Adam Tickell’s 2018 advice to the UK government on open access to research, in which he recommended that Jisc should lead on […]

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Can prediction markets be used to help assess research quality?

This post has been written by Dr Jacqueline Thomson, Senior Research Associate at the School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol. Researchers from the University of Bristol, in partnership with Jisc, have completed a pilot project investigating how prediction markets might be used to help institutions make decisions about which outputs to submit to future […]