Category Archives: Research

The Wikipedia hoover

Back in August Wikimania came to London and I heard some interesting discussion there of Wikipedia’s approach to open access materials and the tools they are developing to support that approach. This github repo contains some interesting open source projects designed mainly to automate the process of identifying cited external resources that can be copied into Wikipedia’s … Read more

Gateway for Higher Education provides insight into research funding – and is open source

Today Jisc announced the beta G4HE website. The site pulls data from the BIS-funded RCUK Gateway to Research API and provides an interface to allow searching and visualising data on research in the UK. For example, you can see at a glance the councils funding research at the University of Oxford, as well as the key collaboration partners in … Read more