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Quarterly roundup: Your September 2023 news from Dryad

by The Dryad Team • September 12, 2023

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Early career researchers, Experts and Expertise, Featured, Impact, research impact, Researcher Development

Can you ever be an expert in research impact?

by Taster • September 12, 2023

Demonstrating a specialism for research impact is an increasingly sought after attribute for academics, research adjacent staff and growing numbers of impact professionals. Drawing on work carried out to design a course in foundational knowledge for re…

Higher Education, metrics, Student advice, university rankings

What would honest university rankings look like?

by Taster • September 11, 2023

University rankings and their subsequent league tables presuppose higher education institutions exist in a linear hierarchical structure and that presenting information in this way is useful to prospective students. Deploying a comparable methodology t…

Impact, Research Environments, Research Software

From backstage to spotlight: A call to highlight the critical role of research software

by Taster • September 7, 2023

The environments and infrastructures that support research, such as research software and the engineers who develop it, are increasingly becoming a focus for research policymakers and funders. Eric A. Jensen and Daniel S. Katz present a call for partic…

Digital Content

Reflections on the 2023 Web Archiving Conference

by Tracee Haupt • September 6, 2023

Today’s guest post is from Abbie Grotke (Assistant Head of the Digital Content Management section), Grace Bicho (Senior Digital Collections Specialist), Lauren Baker (Senior Digital Collections Specialist), and Abbey Potter (Senior Innovation Specialist), all from the Library of Congress. In May, the Library of Congress sent four representatives to the 2023 Web Archiving Conference and …