Open Research, University of Aberdeen
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Open Research @aberdeenuni. Providing expertise, support, advice and news on #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenData Also @openresearchuoa.bsky.social
Aberdeen, Scotland
Joined March 2022
So long twitter! As most of our audience has migrated we're casting off in search of bluer skies. We hope to see you all there. Find us at
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Are you starting new research soon? Have you had a project going for awhile and your data is a complete mess and you're scared? Something in between? Come to our session on Data Management Plans and figure out how to whip that project data in to shape
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End of term getting to you? Having trouble getting into the headspace to work? Join our free structured productivity session 'Turn up and Write!' tomorrow at 10am, in Room 224, SDRL. The atmosphere is relaxed and free hot drinks and biscuits are provided.
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Today for #WorldDiabetesDay we'd like to share one way Open Research is improving treatments for diabetes. With #OpenSource insulin delivery systems, patients and researchers are co-creating more accessible and reliable technologies .
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It's an exciting day for Open Research at Aberdeen! We've received a funding award from @UKRI_News for our first monograph funded under the new UKRI OA book fund! .The research, funded by the ESRC, looks at Scottish party politics after Indyref.
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Get the CRediT you deserve!.Join our session on the Contributor Role Taxonomy and learn how using these roles can enhance your researcher profile and help improve research culture. Tomorrow from 14:00-14:45, sign up on coursebooking from here
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Happy Diwali to all who celebrate! Diwali is primarily a Hindu festival, but is also an important date to other Indian religions including Jains, Sikhs, and Newar Buddhists. There is diversity in how it is celebrated, but festive light displays and delicious sweets are universal
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We've carefully tabulated the votes and arrived at a firm conclusion. Aberdeen, your Carve your PhD Winner for 2024 is: 'Reconstruction of the spatial ecology of pleistocene Ursidae' by Kiki Bordean!!.Huge thanks to everyone who participated!. We loved seeing your work!
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Would you like to learn more about CRediT roles and how they can help improve assessment and recognition, helping to foster a more healthy and supportive research culture? Come to our next ExplORe session to learn all about it. Sign up on Coursebooking.
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It's BeWell & Inclusion week! This year it's about 'Everyday Upgrades'. .One upgrade is our Paper Accepted service. If you forward the acceptance email for all papers to paperaccepted@abdn.ac.uk, we'll add it to Pure for you and make sure it's REF-eligible
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Pumpkins have been carved! Entries evaluated! Two Finalists emerged! It's a Department of Archaeology Head-to-Head! Who will emerge victorious? Will is be Bears from the Pleistocene or Skeletons from Medieval Scotland?.Vote now at or in @aberdeenunilib
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Now for our final post of #OAWeek, we're talking about the unique benefits and challenges of Diamond Open Access.
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All this (not the cat) could be yours! There's two more days to enter out Carve your PhD contest! Make a Jack o' Lantern representing your thesis topic and send pictures to openresearch@abdn.ac.uk. Full rules at .Winner also receives £25 book tokens
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Day 4 of #OAWeek: sometimes, it can seem like open access is all about the Sciences especially when we talk about Preprints, pioneer by the Maths and physics server, arXiv. So we're doing a deep dive on a newcomer to the Preprint server field, Law Archive.
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*Boris Karloff voice* We want to suck your blood!.Scotblood is holding a blood drive at Elphinstone Hall on the 28th of October, and there are still appointments available for most time slots. Vampire costumes recommended (by me. Scotblood has nothing to say on the matter).
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Just so it doesn't get lost at the bottom of the list of resources, of special interest to many of our authors, is this tracker from Ithaka, monitoring which scholarly publishers have made agreements with GenAI companies.
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In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals
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For today's #OAWeek blog post we try to wade through the legal and technical morass around GenAI and Copyright to deliver some guidance around Creative Commons licences and use of works to train LLMs.
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For #OAWeek we'll be setting up tables at Fosterhill and Old Aberdeen to talk to members of our community about Open Access, and the help we can provide. We'll be at the IMS Atrium on Wednesday or the lobby in Sir Duncan Rice on Thursday, between 12-1PM. Stop by and say hello!
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Today for #OAWeek, we're talking about OpenAlex, an open alternative to proprietary citation databases like Scopus or Web of Science, which is built and maintained by the community, to provide highly accurate search results.
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In addition to our drop-in sessions, this #OAWeek, we're writing a series of blog posts about current issues in Open Access. We're kicking off the series with a post on Library Magic, and how open access helps us slay the dragons of commercial publishing
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