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Most funders include Open Access mandates in their contractual conditions. Why are they doing this, and what can grantees do to comply with these mandates? OA specialist Catherine Brendow explains.
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For the third time, the Library will celebrate International Open Access Week with various events and exhibitions set up by our open science Librarians Catherine Brendow and Guillaume Pasquier. The week’s theme this year is “Who owns our knowledge?”. Read to learn more!
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Since 2021, the Graduate Institute has agreements with major publishers that make it easier for researchers to publish open access (OA) articles. They have taken advantage of this opportunity and the proportion of OA articles has risen sharply. But a detailed analysis shows that the path taken may be unsustainable, and that most researchers are still neglecting simple ways to make their research accessible.
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Research data producers need to be rewarded and acknowledged for their work. The readers of your research also need to be able to track the sources you used, including the data. This is why data must be cited properly, just like books or papers. Our resident citations expert Catherine Brendow explains how.
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You could think of Zotero as a house which you may want to customise to suit your needs. Instead of adding a porch or a swimming pool, this takes the form of plugins that allow you to add features to your reference manager. With the arrival of Zotero 7, which has brought some changes to the plugin landscape, this blog post has been updated.
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