Table 1
Top ten downloads of UCL Press titles (to July 2019)
| Title | Publication date | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology | 4 June 2015 | 48,211 |
| How the World Changed Social Media | 29 February 2016 | 338,615 |
| Social Media in an English Village | 29 February 2016 | 77,584 |
| Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | 2 August 2016 | 65,495 |
| Social Media in Industrial China | 13 September 2016 | 100,262 |
| Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya | 7 October 2016 | 41,945 |
| Fabricate 2017 | 3 April 2017 | 46,771 |
| A Conversation about Healthy Eating | 3 July 2017 | 64,359 |
| Social Theory After the Internet | 4 January 2018 | 57,043 |
| Brexit and Beyond | 29 January 2018 | 77,426 |
Figure 1
Distribution Map of UCL Press downloads (December 2019)
Table 2
Results of a UCL survey (2016) on research data management practices (with part percentages rounded up)
| At what stage of the project did you think about data management? | ||
|---|---|---|
| Timespan | Defined as: | % |
| Beginning of the project | ‘Very early on’; ‘straightaway’; ‘pre-protocol’; ‘at the outset’ etc. | 51 |
| Always | ‘All the time’; ‘Throughout’ | 16 |
| Project development | ‘Proposal writing’; ‘for ethical review’; planning’ etc. | 14 |
| Before or after ‘data collection’ | ‘Questionnaire design’; ‘fieldwork preparation’ etc. | 4 |
| During the project | ‘Periodically’; ‘halfway through’; ‘1st year of PhD’ | 4 |
| Never | 4 | |
| Late | Also ‘Too late’ | 2 |
| End of project | ‘At the end’; ‘towards the end’ | 1 |
| Project completion | ‘Ready for publication’; ‘database completion’ | 1 |
| Ad hoc | 1 | |
| When a problem occurred | 1 | |
| ‘Not until I took this survey’ | 1 | |
| N = 217 | ||
| Free text answers |
Figure 2
The position of the Research Data Repository in UCL’s research system Graphic from H2020 Online Manual27
Figures 3a and 3b
Charts showing views and downloads of research data from UCL RDR28
Figure 4
Graph showing record views in RDR by country
Table 3
Examples of European policy-making support for citizen science 2018–2019
| Name | Description | Significance |
|---|---|---|
| The European Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER)’s Open science Roadmap55 | This Open Science Roadmap was established by LIBER in 2018. Recommendations from this roadmap broadly endorse libraries as partners in citizen science, guiding the development of the field. | This roadmap emphasizes the importance of citizen science as part of cultural change. |
| LIBER Citizen Science Working Group56 | Launched in March 2019, the working group is intended to explore, among other questions, what the role of libraries will be in terms of citizen development, education, and instruction, especially relating to citizen science. | This working group is intended to connect colleagues across Europe to explore citizen science opportunities and best practices. |
| The League of European Research Universities (LERU) | Comprises over 23 research-intensive European universities. They published a paper57 that analysed trends in citizen science and provided guidelines that ranged from raising awareness to developing assessments for citizen science in research funding and evaluation processes. | Demonstrates institutional support for citizen science at the university level. |
| Science Europe | Released a briefing paper on citizen science in 2018,58 endorsing the 10 key principles of citizen science developed by the ‘Sharing best practice and building capacity’ Working Group of the European Citizen science Association.59 | Represents major research funding and research performing organizations across Europe. |