The COVID-19 pandemic has been a great example of the real-world benefits of Open Access (OA). Researchers and publishers shared information quickly and openly which helped speed up the development…Read More >
Environment
How a deluge of lockdown volunteers rescued UK’s hidden weather history
When it rains, it pours. Make hay while the sun shines. Save for a rainy day. Come rain or shine. The English language is overflowing with phrases about the weather,…Read More >
Safeguarding ecosystems: From sustained yield to sustainable forestry
On the UN’s International Day of Forests (21 March), Professor Martin Lukac considers this year’s theme of ‘Forests and sustainable production and consumption’ and the much-needed shift in focus away…Read More >
Nigeria’s fuel crisis: smaller, more flexible refineries aren’t the full answer
Nigeria’s growing population of over 200 million people is facing an ever-growing fuel crisis despite its vast oil reserves. The shortage of refining capacity at existing oil refineries is the main driver of Nigeria’s fuel…Read More >
Breaking the ice: The power of networks
Gone are the days when an awkward chat over a few sandwiches and a cup of tea at a conference was all that networking had to offer. Today, the real…Read More >
Storm Eunice: how forecasters predicted super-strong winds days before it even formed
Storm Eunice is in full flow as I write this and has already broken the record for the fastest ever gust recorded in England. Before the wind even really got going here…Read More >
Climate change from the global to the local: celebrating the team of unsung heroes behind our award-winning research
The University has been honoured with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize – considered to be the highest national honour in higher and further education – for our work on Tackling the…Read More >
CentAUR in 2021
Our institutional repository, CentAUR, hosts research outputs from the University of Reading. Users from around the world are able to access large numbers of full text articles, books, book chapters, theses…Read More >
Plants are flowering a month earlier – here’s what it could mean for pollinating insects
Plants are flowering about a month earlier in the UK due to climate change. That’s according scientists at the University of Cambridge, who recently analysed the first flowering dates of 406…Read More >
Mapping the Open Research landscape at the University of Reading
Dr Marcello De Maria, one of the University’s Open Research Champions, writes about the current landscape of Open Research and Open Access, and shares some important insights emerging from the…Read More >