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Research stakeholders put more and more emphasis on the management of research data. This year, the Swedish Research Council has started to demand of grantees to have a research data management plan for their project. Also, many scholarly journals have developed research data policies. For example, the policy of PLOS– one of the major open access publishers in life sciences – require of authors: "to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction at the time of publication”.
Improvements in research data management (RDM) and access to research data can help make better use of research resources and facilitate research quality assurance. But RDM and open data can also be time consuming and demanding. To support researchers’ data management a Research Data Management Group has been formed at Karlstad University. If you have questions concerning RDM or open data, don’t hesitate to contact the group. Below, you are also invited to participate in an information session designed to help you develop a research data management plan for your project. Do not miss out on this opportunity, hope we’ll see you on November 28!
Magnus Åberg, newsletter editor
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- ... that our course for PhD students Information Retrieval (3 ECTS) started October 8. It is given in English and targets students in the beginning of their research career. Besides information retrieval, the course covers topics such as publishing strategies, open access, bibliometrics, and copyright issues. In spring 2020, starting on 18 February, the course will be given in Swedish. For more information on the course contact course coordinator Åsa Möller.
- ... that to make our books easier to find our collections have been rearranged during the summer. You can find newer non-fiction and fiction books on floor 3. Our older collection is located on floor 2. [Click here to learn more]
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Since a couple of years Karlstad University has a running deal with publisher Springer Nature, which enables KaU researchers to publish open access with any hybrid journal covered by the deal. Starting 15 July 2019 a new deal concerning Springer Nature's fully open access journals, gives KaU researchers more journals to choose from when searching for free open access publishing options. The two deals combined encompass roughly 2,200 hybrid and fully open Springer Nature journals.
Moreover, an open access deal has been struck with German publisher DeGruyter. The deal gives KaU researchers 10% discount on the article processing charge in any of the 350 hybrid and 94 fully open access journals included in the deal.
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Following the vice chancellor's decision Rb 49/19 the library is responsible for conducting a bibliometric analysis of KaU research output. This will be done during October/November.
The analysis will cover the years 2014-2018 and publication data will be gathered from DiVA. For this reason, we encourage you to check your existing DiVA records. Most of them should already be available in DiVA as we import publications with KaU affiliations from Web of Science and Scopus. If you have publications with another affiliation or publications that are not indexed in those databases you need to register them in DiVA yourself.
Please double-check that all your publications are available and add missing ones in DiVA before October 11. Publications registered after this date will not be included in this year's analysis.
Questions? Please contact project leader Nadja Neumann, ext: 1783
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This is an invitation to partake in an information session with Karlstad University's Research Data Management Group on November 28, 1 pm - 3 pm in room 1E425.
As of 2019, everyone who is granted funding from the Swedish Research Council needs to have a data management plan if the research generates research data. The plan should describe how data that are collected and/or created will be handled during the research project and how it will be handled afterwards.
In conjunction with the Swedish Research Council announcing the decisions in the big call for 2019, the Research Data Management Group invites all researchers to an introduction on how to write a data management plan. The introduction focuses on central aspects of what the Swedish Research Council asks for from a data management plan:
• What is research data?
• Who is responsible for managing the research data?
• Why is it important to have good practices for handling research data?
• How can you store and share research data in a secure way?
• Ethical and legal aspects of research data
• Open data
To register for the event, please send an email to forskningsdata@kau.se
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On 24 October - as part of the International Open Access Week - Karlstad University will arrange an informative event about open access to research publications. Participants will find out more about the possibilities and challenges of open access, and how researchers are affected by such possibilities and challenges in their work. The event is primarily intended for researchers, teachers, and doctoral students, but everyone who is interested is welcome.
DATE: Thursday, 24 October
TIME: 9-12 (Swedish), 13-16 (English)
PLACE: Learning Lab at the University Library (floor 3)
Programme (same programme available in Swedish between 9 am to 12 pm)
13-13.30 Research theatre Open to whom? Magnus Åberg, Nadja Neumann
13.30-14 Open Access at Karlstad University. Nadja Neumann, Inga-Lill Nilsson
14-14.30 Break
14.30-15 How can we choose among Creative Commons licenses? Jörg Pareigis
15-15.30 What happens to my copyright when I publish Open Access? Inga-Lill Nilsson
15.30-16 Open Access Quiz
Contact: Inga-Lill Nilsson, inga-lill.nilsson@kau.se
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'Meet a Researcher' ("Möt en forskare") is an open lunch seminar series where staff, students, and the general public can listen to KaU scholars presenting interesting research findings. To attend, no registration is necessary. Welcome to the Learning Lab, floor 3 in the library, between 12.00-12.45.
These scholars will be presenting, please note the dates:
9 October: Dr Malin Stegmann McCallion - "Brexit - How did we end up here?"
14 November: Dr Charlotte Bäccman - "Ögongodis, fryst frihet och heta hunkar: Om hot och kompensationskonsumtion".
11 December: Professor and KaU Vice Chancellor Johan Sterte - "Att sila molekyler och svälja kameler".
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Forskningspodden is an audio podcast that mainly presents research from research from newly graduated licentiates and doctorates at Karlstad University to the public. Since the previous newsletter five new episodes have been added, bringing the total to 58.
The most recent addition in English are the interview with Jo Ese, who talks about his thesis in Working Life Science. Jo has investigated managerialism in higher education, and how academics' react to it. Highly interesting research for everyone working in academia!
To listen to our interview with Jo Ese, or any other of our interviews with KaU researchers, please visit the Forskningspodden web page.
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The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is the ambitious initiative put forward by the European Union to maximise the benefits of data-driven research and the digitalisation of research. The project was kicked-off in 2015 when the High Level Expert Group European Open Science Cloud was formed, headed by Barend Mons. A lot has happened since 2015, and now the EOSC is in its implementation phase.
EOSC is a large-scale infrastructure where you are - or will be - able to process, deposit and find research data, collaborate with researchers, businesses and public sector actors, and find training material. On July 25, EOSC made public its implementation plan for 2019-2020. Here you can read more about the history of the EOSC, and what activities that lie ahead in the short term. The plan makes a bold statement when it says that:
"EOSC uses information technologies to revolutionize the way we do research, the way collective scientific knowledge is created in all disciplines, in all geographies" (p. 4).
Follow the links below to learn more.
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