My journey in Edinburgh TAGS: Visitor Guest blog post by Dr Raj Kumar Bhardwaj, Chief Librarian at St. Stephen’s College – University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. About myself I am Dr Raj Kumar Bhardwaj, Chief …Continue reading →

Research Data Support team and DCC to host Skills4EOSC Fellow TAGS: open science University of Edinburgh has been chosen as one of 12 European institutions to host sponsored short secondments for data professionals in Open Science, as part of the Skills4EOSC Horizon Europe …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2023: in summary TAGS: EORC This is a guest post by the Library’s new Citizen Science Engagement Officer, Neil Coleman. All of the materials from the conference may be found on the Edinburgh Open Research …Continue reading →

New year, new team members! TAGS: staff The Research Data Support team has had some noteworthy changes in the last few months. Longtime staff member Pauline Ward has embraced a new management role as Data Repository Operations …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Open Research Conference Proceedings TAGS: conference | EOR One of the ambitions for the EOR conference held in March, 2022, when we first started planning it was to make it as open and accessible as possible. To achieve …Continue reading →

First Edinburgh Open Research Conference: March 27th 2022 TAGS: conference | EOR On this day in history, Kerry Miller (Library Research Support) and Laura Klinkhamer (Edinburgh Open Research Initiative and ReproducibiliTea) delivered a packed programme of speakers, workshops, and poster presentations. Attendees …Continue reading →

DataShare awarded CoreTrustSeal trustworthy repository status TAGS: CoreTrustSeal | DataShare | standards CoreTrustSeal has recognised Edinburgh DataShare as a trustworthy repository. What does this mean for our depositors? It means you can rest assured that we look after your data very carefully, …Continue reading →

Simon Smith joins the Research Data Support Team TAGS: staff It has been a long pandemic, and some bright spots are beginning to appear on the horizon. One of them is that we have a new professional joining our team, …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh’s new Research Data Management Policy TAGS: policy | Research Data Following a year-long consultation with research committees and other stakeholders, a new RDM Policy (www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-policy) has replaced the landmark 2011 policy, authored by former Digital Curation Centre Director, Chris Rusbridge, …Continue reading →

New Research Data Stewards in post TAGS: research support | staff Very soon we will sadly say goodbye to Gina Geffers, who, along with Sam Hillman, have become our first Research Data Steward veterans. But we are very pleased to welcome …Continue reading →