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CORE helps Lean Library to provide its users with freely accessible copies of research papers

22 May 2020

CORE follows its mission and makes open access more visible and reusable by being an enabling infrastructure. This time CORE joins its forces with Lean Library, whose aim is to…

Research Fellow, Miriam Fernandez Receives Executive Dean Commendation

19 May 2020

KMi Research Fellow, Miriam Fernandez, received a Commendation from the STEM-Executive-Dean, Nick Braithwaite, at the STEM Faculty Assembly today. Miriam was nominated by her KMi Director on behalf of her…

New study reveals mud volcanoes on Mars may flow like lava

19 May 2020

European researchers, including Dr Manish Patel, Dr Matt Balme and Dr Matthew Sylvest from The Open University(OU), have found that mud volcanoes on Mars may look similar to lava flows found on Earth. According to…

Track compliance of the REF2021 open access policy with the CORE Repository Dashboard

12 May 2020

At the end of March, CORE presented a webinar (slides and recording) on how UK HEIs can track compliance with the REF2021 open access policy. The webinar was fully booked…

Apollo 17 sample leads to new discovery of the Moon’s evolution

12 May 2020

An international team of scientists, including Mahesh Anand, Professor of Planetary Science and Exploration at The Open University, have discovered new evidence that massive impact events formed large portions of the…

Congratulations to The Core and iTunes U Teams

12 May 2020

Every day, millions of people access free OU content. Congratulations to all members, past and present, of our CORE and iTunes U teams for being recognised as two of the…

Ancient rivers on Mars more than 3.7 billion years old

11 May 2020

Scientists from around the globe have discovered evidence of ancient rivers on Mars more than 3.7 billion years old, using high-resolution 3D imaging data. Sedimentary rocks, found in a 200-metre…

Congratulations Martin Hlosta and Trevor Collins on RET

01 May 2020

Congratulations to KMi Research Fellow, Martin Hlosta the Early Alerts IndicatorsTeam and tutors for their Excellence in Teaching Award in the ‘enhancing teaching and learning’ category . The award was for OUAnalyse which is now deployed in all undergraduate OU modules to support student success. Hats off are…

Taha Tobaili Achieves Doctoral Success

30 Apr 2020

Despite being in COVID-19 lockdown, Taha Tobaili successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled "Sentiment Analysis for the Latinised Arabic Arabizi". Taha’s supervisors, Dr Miriam Fernandez and Professor Harith Alani expressed…

OUAnalyse awarded Recognition of Excellence in Teaching

30 Apr 2020

RET is a scheme at The Open University created to celebrate outstanding contributions to learning, teaching and the student experience in all types of roles across the University – both…

Two KMi Professors Feature In The Top 25 most Cited Scholars List

27 Apr 2020

Harith Alani, Professor of Web Science and Enrico Motta Professor of Knowledge Technologies, were ranked 7 and 24 respectively out of-the top 2000 scholars in their AI field. AMiner produces the rankings by drawing on a variety of sources available on the web, including semantic-based profiles, bibliographic…

KMi Professors in the Top 25 on Most influential Scholar List

24 Apr 2020

KMi Professors in the Top 25 on Most influential Scholar List Two KMi Professors feature among the top 25 most cited scholars inthe Knowledge Engineering field, according to the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List for 2020. Harith Alani, Professor of…