UKSG are offering a free webinar on The Law of Text and Data Mining in Europe.
“The aim of the webinar is to introduce the audience, in particular non-lawyers, to the legal framework of text and data mining, focusing on the main aspects of the law at the European level.” Speakers are Guilia Dore and Nancy Pontika.
The webinar is on Tuesday 21st March and registration also provides access to the recording of the session.
The UK Data Service holds the UK’s largest collection of research data. It’s also an extremely useful source of information about how to use data in your research.
To help researchers get the most out of the service they run a series of free webinars on what the service is and how to use it, training on topics like data management and data reuse, and introductions to some of their key data sets.
See the full list of webinars with links to registration. You’ll also find recordings of past webinars which will be added to, so if you can attend live you can always catch up later.
The webinars and resources are available to everyone, but could be of particular interest if you are funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). ESRC funds the UK Data Service and provides detailed guidance on data management planning for ESRC researchers.
If so, you may be interested in this fully funded 1-day course on 16th March in Edinburgh.
The “Engaging people with your research” workshop is suitable for PhD students wishing to get involved in public engagement. It is funded by NERC and delivered by the Edinburgh Living Landscape partnership at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
By the end of the course, participants should be able to:
• Understand benefits of public engagement on their research and the natural environment
• Be inspired by case studies and learn how to be interactive and creative
• Be aware of opportunities to get involved and how to start their own project
• Gain confidence in communicating science and research to a non-specialist audience.
It’s a great opportunity to learn and develop skills that will help during your PhD and beyond!
There are 20 fully funded places. Travel and, if required, accommodation costs will be covered.
To apply please return a brief 100 – 200 word statement on why you want to get involved in public engagement along with your name, contact details, university, topic and funding body to c.rolin.1@research.gla.ac.uk by the 23rd February.
The 9th Global Open Access Week is held between October 24th to 30th, the theme this year is “Open in Action”. Library Services is marking Open Access Week with 3 events, all sessions are open to all.
Open Research Data & Open Research Data Online (ORDO)
Wendy Mears (Research Support Librarian) will be introducing the new research data store that enables you to publish completed research data and get a permanent, citable DOI for your work. Based on the established Figshare platform, ORDO makes it easy to link to supporting data from other publications, and provides an accessible shop window on University research. ORDO can also be used for live data storage by individual users or collaborative project groups.
Further Information: Tuesday 25th October, 10-11am Library Presentation Room
Booking Information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-research-data-and-open-research-data-online-ordo-tickets-28332219431
Getting to Grips with Open Access Publishing
Chris Biggs (Research Support Librarian) will explore Open Access Publishing. We will cover both the Gold and Green routes to Open Access, the benefits of Open Access and the different Open Access Policies researchers now operate under.
Further Information: Wednesday 26th October, 10-11am Library Presentation Room
Booking Information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-to-grips-with-open-access-publishing-tickets-28332426049
Claiming your research publications: ORCIDs at the OU
Chris Biggs (Research Support Librarian) will give an introduction to Open Researcher & Contributor IDs (ORCIDs), the non-proprietary identifier for researchers that has become the de-facto standard in the community. We will explore why they are a good idea and the time saving benefits for researchers. Please bring along a mobile device – there will be time to sign up for ORCIDs, add items to your ORCID record and configure it to auto-populate with new publications.
Further Information: Friday 28th October, 10-11am Library Presentation Room
Booking Information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/claiming-your-research-publications-orcids-at-the-ou-tickets-28332611604
Yesterday I ran a workshop on research data management for research staff and students. The session generated lots of interesting discussion, especially around questions of ethics and the gaining of consent for data sharing; trying to anticipate what might be worth sharing with others; and whether documenting data processing activities is really worth the interruption to creative flow! As promised, the slides are uploaded here.
The sessions are run twice yearly, so if you missed this one, keep an eye out for future training emails from the Research Career Development team in the Autumn.
This morning I ran a session for research students on research data management. The aim of the session was to go away with an outline of a data management plan to discuss with supervisors.
The session was well attended and generated lots of interesting discussion. Students used this template for an outline data management plan.
Slides are available on SlideShare and will also be uploaded to the VRE (Virtual Research Environment).
Increasingly, researchers are expected to publish their outputs by open access to satisfy the requirements of the research funders in the UK and abroad. This session will introduce participants to the benefits of open access publishing, and to UK and international funder policies for open access. The session will also address the new HEFCE policy on open access for the post-2014 REF.
This session is open to all.
Booking required in advance, please email library-training@open.ac.uk places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Update:
Thanks to everyone who attended the presentation.
Presentation slides area available here: Getting to Grips with Open Access Publishing 2015-12 v2
Session notes are available here: Getting to Grips with Open Access Publishing_Notes_2015-12
This morning I ran a workshop on Research Data Management for research staff and students. As usual, the topic generated lots of interesting discussion, and it was a great opportunity for researchers to talk through their data management issues with colleagues. As promised, I’ve uploaded the slides here.
If you missed the workshop this time, don’t worry – we’ll be running the session again on 12th May. Keep an eye out for emails from the Research Career Development team in the new year for details.
Whether you’re conducting interviews, collecting samples, creating software or analyzing texts, your research data is a valuable asset which should be managed properly and made publicly available alongside your other research outputs wherever possible.
This session will give an introduction to the basics of research data management: what it is, why it’s important and ways that you can embed research data management into your everyday working practice.
Booking required in advance, please email library-training@open.ac.uk Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Re-posted from: http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/newsitem/?id=4175 
A guided walk through ReShare: 22 September 2015: 12.00-13.00 (online)
Are you an ESRC grant holder who has a grant that has ended and are required by the ESRC to submit your research data into the ReShare repository?
Are you a researcher interested in depositing data into ReShare, to make them available for reuse or as evidence for a published paper? Are you just curious to explore how publishing in ReShare happens in practice?
If so, come and join an interactive online group session, led by experts at the UK Data Service, where we’ll ‘walk’ you through the process of submitting a data collection into the ReShare repository. You can then start describing and uploading your own data collection. We will be there to answer any questions you may have and to help you, should you encounter problems. At the end you can submit your data collection and after a final review by us, we’ll publish it. Or you can opt to save your data collection for later submission.
In practice you will learn:
Before joining the online session you’ll need to register with the UK Data Service and have your data and documentation files prepared according to our guidelines. Booking will be limited to 15 people and priority will be given to ESRC grant holders whose grant has recently ended.
For more information and to register, visit the event page on the UK Data Archive website.