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 […]
The forest chatter has been clamorous since Microsoft’s announcement to retire Microsoft Academic (MAG) at the end of 2021. Like many others, at CORE, we have used MAG for a number of tasks including data quality enhancement and enrichment, to obtain citation data, for our research in semantic typing of citations and to enrich MAG […]
Our new podcast series Research Talk has launched. Alongside experts in the field, we will explore where Jisc are uniquely placed to act in the continued development of technology, digital and data approaches, to support the research and innovation sector to meet its priorities. The series draws on the critical themes from our Research and […]