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Open research in conversation: two approaches to micropublications

This is a guest post by Dr Alex Freeman, Director of Octopus Publishing CIC and Chris Hartgerink, CEO of Liberate Science. Octopus and ResearchEquals (formerly Hypergraph) are two projects which have much in common, and which followed a similar timeline from initiation to launch. Back in 2020, the founders of the two concepts posted an […]

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CORE update for January to March 2022

The first quarter of the new year was very productive for the CORE team with a number of new releases.  First, we have been working hard on improving the user interface and experience of the website and its performance on a technical, visual communication and usability levels. In January, we released a new homepage and […]

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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 […]