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Research IT & Data Management drop-ins – autumn 2019 dates


The Research Data Management team and Research IT Services jointly run regular drop-in sessions.  These sessions are open to all UCL research staff and research students.  Someone from the Research Data Management team will be there to support you with data management planning best practice in storing and sharing data complying with funder requirements – […]


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Call for contributions: Managing research data in the humanities


The (ALLEA) E-Humanities Working Group is seeking feedback on its draft guidance for humanities researchers working with data: Recommendations for Sustainable and FAIR Data Sharing in the Humanities Deadline: 15 July 2019 There is a growing consensus that research data needs to be FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable.  That is, it must be managed, organised, […]


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UCL Open Science Day – 23 May 2019


Free workshop for all UCL researchers and staff. Registration is now open. UCL Open Science Day: developing open scholarship at UCL A year on from LERU‘s publication of Open Science and its role in universities: a roadmap for cultural change, and following the success of the last year’s workshop, UCL Open Science Day 2019 will […]


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Research Data Repository launch 5 June 2019


After 2 years of collaboration with provider Figshare, the Research Data Repository is live!  This free, open service will allow all UCL researchers (doctoral and beyond) to publish, preserve and share data underpinning research – or other potentially useful data.  Free, open access to data is central to FAIR data principles and enables replicable research […]


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Making UCL research reproducible


The call for Open Access to research Progress on sharing research has been gradual since the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2006) and the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment – or DORA (2012).  Last year’s publication of Open Science and its role in universities: a roadmap for […]


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Every racial and ethnic minority group in America is making financial gains but not at equal rates

Multicultural Economy Report from the University of Georgia : Selig Center’s Multicultural Economy Report shows minority groups have a combined buying power of $3.9 trillion

The combined buying power of African Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans is estimated to be $2.4 trillion, while the nation’s Hispanics command $1.5 trillion in spending power—larger than the GDP of Australia.

African American buying power has seen impressive gains since the end of the last economic downturn, jumping from $961 billion in 2010 to an estimated $1.3 trillion in 2018. Since 2000, the African American market has seen a 114 percent increase in buying power.

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