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October 5, 2021, by Emma

Open Research – nearly 4 million downloads of UoN research outputs

Explore the principles and impact of Open Research with the latest blog from the Libraries Research Support team.

Did you know there have been nearly 4 million downloads of University of Nottingham research outputs from Repository@Nottingham ,  Nottingham e-Theses  and the  Research Data Repository ?

This means that researchers and the general public have been able to access journal articles, data sets and e-theses immediately and free of charge, enabling the university to ensure our research has maximum societal impact.

Alongside the Discovery and Access team within Libraries, and academic faculties, we have been working to promote Open Research across the University. As well as open access articles, Open Research encourages researchers to make the data behind their findings openly accessible and shareable.

Some of this data is put into our Research Data Repository but some is found outside of the university in places like the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre . In the last year, the number of datasets we know about has nearly doubled!

The appetite for our accessing our research is growing and the number of journal articles, conference papers, books and book chapters downloaded is growing all the time.

If you’d like to find out more about Open Research take a look at the University website , which includes an infographic with more information.

Please contact the team by email at [email protected]  with any queries.

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Greater openness for Nottingham research: changes to repository licences

April 22nd, 2022

Find out about the upcoming licensing changes to publications in university repositories beginning in May 2022

Over the last twenty years, the university has become a significant publisher of the outputs of research.

As of 22 September 2021, the scale of open research across University of Nottingham repositories included:

• 30,945 articles/conference papers
• 2,088 books/book chapters
• 2,375 data deposits
• 5,027 e-theses

Current licensing arrangements

Our repositories (previously ePrints and now RIS) have always offered various licensing options for authors to choose from when depositing their research outputs. However, during this process authors have often declined to select a particular licence and as a result, many outputs are under very restrictive licensing terms.

This especially hinders commercial organisations that may be our knowledge exchange partners. Some outputs are only available on a basis of “all rights reserved”, in line with UK copyright law. This severely limits scope to copy and adapt previous work as new findings emerge, even in non-commercial research settings.

Funding bodies and licensing

Many funding bodies believe that permissive licensing of outputs underpinned by grants will maximise the reach and impact of research. Consequently, this has become a key condition of much grant funding.

UKRI, the Wellcome Trust and NIHR all require journal articles to be published with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. The CC BY licence allows works to be shared and adapted with appropriate attribution.

Upcoming changes to licensing for university research publications

In response to these trends, and to align with the university’s core strategic value of openness and “championing the free exchange of ideas”, University of Nottingham Libraries will be taking the following steps to enhance the reuse potential of the publications in our repositories.

• All outputs which were migrated to RIS by 2018 and are associated with the ePrints generic licence will transition to CC BY licence terms
• All outputs deposited in RIS since summer 2018 with no licence specified will transition to CC BY licence terms, subject to consultation with their University of Nottingham authors
• Where in future a University of Nottingham author does not choose to associate a licence with a new output at the point of deposit in RIS, CC BY licence terms will be applied by default.

Libraries will begin making these changes and contacting authors from May 2022.

If you have any questions about these changes or what it means for your research outputs, please contact the Libraries team at [email protected] .

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