[GOAL] Open Access Week at Cambridge University - Tuesday

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

Hello all,

On to Day 2 of Open Access Week 2017 and if you are not one of the over 410,000 people to have viewed Prof Stephen Hawking’s thesis because our system is struggling with such an explosion of traffic, please be patient! The system is working intermittently, and we hope to speed things up over the course of the day: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.11283

Today’s happenings at the Office of Scholarly Communication at Cambridge University continue yesterday’s accidental ‘theses’ theme…

Blog – New adventures on a new blog for Open Research
We are excited to announce a brand new blog platform for Open Research at Cambridge, Open Research: Adventures from the frontline - https://openadventures-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?page_id=12 This platform will publish blogs and observations from the Open Research Pilot but also musings and findings from our research community.

Announcement – Free digitisation of alumni theses
We are delighted to have been contacted by more than 30 alumni keen to make their own theses open access in the wake of our announcement of Prof. Hawking’s decision to make his thesis available. A vast amount of research undertaken at Cambridge is locked up in PhD theses held in paper form in the Library. To help unlock this resource, the Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) is offering to cover the cost of digitisation of PhD theses for alumni who are prepared to make their PhD freely available on the University’s repository, Apollo: www.repository.cam.ac.uk<http://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/>

This is an opportunity for alumni to join other luminaries such as Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Lord Christopher Smith in making their PhD freely available. More information about this project is available here:https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/news/share-your-research-with-the-world

The Office of Scholarly Communication gratefully acknowledges the support of Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, for this project.

Event – How to Spot a Predatory Publisher
Today at 2pm we are delighted to offer the popular course ‘How to Spot a Predatory Publisher’ as a webinar for library staff.

So-called predatory publishers regularly approach researchers via email to solicit manuscripts and conference papers. With the emphasis on publishing as a measure of academic success still strong, it can be easy to give in to temptation and flattery but this can do more harm than good to a future career. This session will look at the problem of predatory publishers using case studies. Attendees will be given tips on how to spot a predatory publisher or conference and the best advice to offer if one of their researchers is approached.

Further details and registration: https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/osc/event/2246800 We will be making a recording of this webinar available later this week.

Best wishes,

Danny

Dr Danny Kingsley
Deputy Director - Scholarly Communication & Research Services
Cambridge University Library
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