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IRUS-UK is changing

From January 2022, IRUS-UK R5 will become the primary service and the place to go for new monthly usage data for institutional repositories. What is IRUS R5? IRUS (Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) enables institutional repositories (IRs) to share and expose statistics based on the COUNTER standard. It provides an aggregated view of repository usage to […]

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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, […]

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Digital Preservation General news Open research

(Digital) Preservation first

If I was going there, I wouldn’t start from here… A little background (peppered with superlatives and speculation for good measure) … Ever since proto-humans first put marks on a cave wall way back when, producers and creators have been obsessed with preserving their legacy.  Sometimes they got it wrong (Oh Leonardo. Gesso, pitch, and […]