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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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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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National research data infrastructure Open research

EOSC activities update and UK engagement

Introduction The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a European Commission (EC) initiative to support the development of open science and the digital transformation of research in Europe and further afield. Now in its implementation phase, it aims to develop a “web” of FAIR data and services, providing a multi-disciplinary environment where researchers can publish, […]