From: Christina Emery <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 17:45:50 +0000

Good afternoon,

Please see here for today's announcement:
http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/2015/11/ku-research/

The last month has been an especially busy time for KU. Not only are we in
the middle of a library pledging round, but we are also very excited to be
announcing the formal establishment of a new arm of KU: KU Research. KU
Research is being headed up by Lucy Montgomery, Associate Professor at
Curtin University and KU¹s Deputy Director. The establishment of KU
Research is an important step in scaling-up our research activities and
ambitions, and formalising links between KU and researchers tackling big
questions in scholarly communication and Open Access.

KU Research is looking forward to contributing to transparency in and
understanding of digital knowledge landscapes that include Open Access.
Developing and piloting business models that make Open Access publishing
practical and sustainable for research communities is part of this.
Thinking through the opportunities (and challenges) of collecting and
managing usage data and working with libraries, publishers and research
funder to develop new tools and standards for mapping the use of Open
Access content at web-scale is also key.

Curtin University researcher, Alkim Ozaygen, is the latest addition to the
KU research program. Ozaygen is developing new tools and methods for
mapping and understanding the impact of Open Access books as part of his
PhD research. KU Open Access books provide him with a key dataset: making
it possible to interrogate patterns and relationships that will make more
effective measurements of the impact of monographs on society and
scholarly communities possible. In doing so, Ozaygen is hoping to
contribute to a better understanding of pathways for the distribution of
knowledge across global digital networks.

KU was pleased to be involved in the 2015 Scholarly Communications
Institute
<http://trianglesci.org/2015-institute/validating-and-valuing-digital-schol
arship/>, which took place in the Triangle region of North Carolina in
October. This exciting event was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, and brought together teams of researchers for five intensive
days of thinking, planning and doing: defining shared challenges,
exploring creative strategies for tackling them, developing new
collaborations and fostering a spirit of bold and open experimentation.
The theme of SCI 2015 was Validating and Valuing Digital Scholarship. Lucy
Montgomery was selected to take part, as part of a team working on a
project titled Collecting and Analyzing Usage Data for Online Scholarly
Publications.Plans are already underway to take this project furtherŠ so
watch this space.

Regards,
Christina

Christina Emery
Partnership Manager | Knowledge Unlatched

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