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Octopus, Jisc and UKRN: working together to create a new primary research record for science.

This is a guest post by Dr Alex Freeman, Director of Octopus Publishing CIC 2022 is the year that Octopus is finally going to launch, designed to change the face of science forever. In case you haven’t heard of it, Octopus is a new platform that sets out to be the new ‘primary research record’. […]

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Empower your institution with the Open Access Switchboard

The Open Access Switchboard is an independent exchange hub connecting funders, institutions and publishers. A global not-for-profit initiative aiming to help the research community transition to full open access and become the primary research publication model. As a neutral and independent intermediary, it will support information exchange as well as help reduce barriers to the […]

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This week is ‘Peer Review Week’ – a time to ‘celebrate’ that aspect of scientific publishing that academia loves to hate.

This guest blog post is written by Dr Alexandra Freeman, Director, Octopus Publishing Community Interest Company (CIC) On the one hand peer review is lauded as the ‘gold standard’ mark of quality – in theory, work that has been thoroughly read and checked by a group of several independent experts in the field should be […]