Ensuring recognition and reward, Facilitating access, Publishing and disseminating
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22 September 2010
The task for the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) is to build a common information environment where users of publicly funded e-content can gain best value from the investment that has been made by reducing the barriers that currently inhibit access, use and re-use of online content.
Ensuring recognition and reward, Evaluating usage and impact, Publishing and disseminating
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22 September 2010
The Publishing Research Consortium is a group of associations and publishers, which supports global research into scholarly communication in order to enable evidence-based discussion. Their objective is to support work that is scientific and pro-scholarship, aiming to promote an understanding of the role of publishing and its impact on research and teaching.
Assuring quality of research, Facilitating access, Publishing and disseminating
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22 September 2010
The National e-Science Centre was proposed and established by a consortium of departments from the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow to stimulate and sustain the development of e-Science in the UK, to contribute significantly to its international development and to ensure that its techniques are rapidly propagated to commerce and industry.
Assuring quality of research, Facilitating access, Publishing and disseminating
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22 September 2010
The e-Science Institute (eSI) was founded in August 2001, as a central focus for the e-Science community in the UK. Its mission is to stimulate the creation of new insights in e-Science and computing science by bringing together international experts and enabling them to successfully address significant and diverse challenges.
Assuring quality of research, Ensuring recognition and reward, Publishing and disseminating
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22 September 2010
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world’s most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. They aim to expand the frontiers of knowledge by championing the development and use of science, mathematics, engineering and medicine for the benefit of humanity and the good of the planet.
Assuring quality of research, Facilitating access, Publishing and disseminating
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21 September 2010
The Research and Development Society is a leading organisation for the discussion, development and promotion of the management of excellent research and development in all UK-based companies and organisations. It is an independent membership organisation that has been assisting its members in maintaining their knowledge, skills and contacts in R&D and innovation since 1962.
Assuring quality of research, Facilitating access, Publishing and disseminating
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21 September 2010
The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around £13 billion, it is the United Kingdom’s largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.
Assuring quality of research, Facilitating access, Publishing and disseminating
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21 September 2010
The Research Councils UK (RCUK) mission is to optimise the ways that Research Councils work together to deliver their goals, to enhance the overall performance and impact of UK research, training and knowledge transfer and to be recognised by academia, business and government for excellence in research sponsorship.
Assuring quality of research, Publishing and disseminating
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20 September 2010
The Publishers Association (PA) is acknowledged with scholarly communications to be the leading trade organisation serving book, journal, audio and electronic publishers in the UK. The PA’s mission is to strengthen the trading environment for UK publishers, by providing a strong voice for the industry in government, within society and with other stakeholders in the UK.
Assuring quality of research, Ensuring recognition and reward, Publishing and disseminating
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20 September 2010
The International Association of STM Publishers (STM) is a global association of more than 100 scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishers, collectively responsible for more than 60 per cent of the global annual output of research articles, over half the active research journals and the publication of tens of thousands of print and electronic books, reference works and databases.