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FAIR Open research

Coordination needed: recurring theme from a recent UK workshop on open research skills

On 26th November 2021, the Open Research Competencies Coalition (ORCC)  in cooperation with FAIRsFAIR and EOSC Synergy projects co-organised a virtual session on  Advancing the skills agenda for reproducibility, open and FAIR. The session aimed to identify and map the skills and competencies needed by the current and future open research support workforce. This online […]

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Boost your skills in working with digital collections

Posted on behalf of Peter Findlay Are you a researcher wanting to boost your skills in working with digital collections? Researchers often tell us that they have problems when they want to use digital methods to interrogate large archives, special collections, masses of catalogue records or aggregations of metadata. We are therefore pleased to announce […]

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Research, once removed – a Jisc / CNI conference preview

Ahead of this year’s Jisc and CNI leaders’ conference we asked closing keynote Dan Cohen, vice provost/dean of the library and professor of history, Northeastern University, for his views on what the library and research community have learned from the pandemic, the importance of sector events like Jisc and CNI and to preview of his […]