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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 […]

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Emerald supplies accepted manuscripts to Publications Router

Emerald, the global publisher of social science research, is now supplying accepted manuscripts of journal articles to Jisc’s Publications Router service for onward distribution to UK institutional repositories. Deposit close to acceptance The new feed from Emerald includes the full text of the manuscripts, deposited soon after acceptance for publication. Publications Router matches them to […]

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Discussion on Octopus at Digital Research Community monthly meeting

At our latest Digital Research Community monthly discussion meeting we heard from Octopus, an open platform where researchers can read, review and register ideas and findings at all stages of the research lifecycle. Jisc is collaborating with Octopus’ creator, Dr Alex Freeman, to build the platform, working in partnership with the UK Reproducibility Network and […]