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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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Research, once removed – a Jisc / CNI conference preview

Ahead of this year’s Jisc and CNI leaders’ conference we asked closing keynote Dan Cohen, vice provost/dean of the library and professor of history, Northeastern University, for his views on what the library and research community have learned from the pandemic, the importance of sector events like Jisc and CNI and to preview of his […]

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Research Data Alliance’s Virtual Plenary 17 – Why attend?

Introduction Registration is now open for the RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting on 20-23 April 2021. This event is hosted by the Digital Curation Centre in collaboration with Jisc and UKRI. As you’d expect, considering the current situation, this plenary has moved to being a fully virtual event. Despite the disappointment of not being able to meet up in Edinburgh, […]