Stress Awareness Month
Creating Pure records? If your research output is already published online, you can save time and reduce stress by importing records from CrossRef or Scopus instead of creating them from scratch.
See our guide on how to import research outputs into Pure:
Absolutely! We will be sharing research later in the month which advocates for a systemic approach from HE institutions to address researcher stress.
Stress Awareness Month
One of the biggest sources of research stress is sorting out data at the end of a project. Planning early using a Data Management Plan (DMP) can make projects run more smoothly and reduce pressure later on.
A useful tool for writing DMPs is DMPOnline:
Stress Awareness Month
Research can be stressful: deadlines, publishing pressure, data management, and compliance. Over the next month we will be sharing information and tools to help support researchers manage these pressures and to raise awareness about stress within research culture.
#Kings
For our Open Research Journal Club last week, we discussed a recent study by Swanson et al. (2026) on how LLMs can perform large-scale deanonymisation at speed and relatively low cost, using micro-data gathered from unstructured text.
You can read the full paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800
Call for recommendations 🙏
At our next journal club, we're going to be discussing predatory and non-reputable practices in research publishing. We're looking for recommendations for articles or papers on this topic. If you know of any please let us know!
Happy 10th Birthday to the FAIR principles! The guiding principles of data management were first published in this comment piece 10 years ago today. They state that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
You can read the article here:
www.nature.com/articles/sda...
For #IWD2026, we're sharing the Gender Equality Index UK, developed by researchers at King’s College London and other universities. The Index measures gender equality across 372 UK local authorities.
You can explore the open dataset, report, and interactive maps here:
A dataset from Professor Mark Turner makes materials from the journal openly available for research and reuse.
You can access the records on KORDS, our data repository, here: doi.org/10.18742/251...
#IWD2026
This International Women's Day, we want to highlight some of the research conducted at King's relating to women's experiences and history.
The English Women's Journal (1858-1864) was an influential, early feminist publication advocating for women's employment, education, and legal rights.
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We're looking forward to RLUK's virtual conference from the 25th to the 27th of March. The theme of the event, 'The role of libraries in supporting civic society', feels very timely and we're excited to see what discussions emerge.
You can find out more and sign up here: rlukconference.com
#RLUK26
We are excited to have launch our other Open Research account on LinkedIn! We look forward to promoting our work and connecting further with the OR community across multiple platforms.
If you are on LinkedIn, please check out our first post (with a lovely team photo) here: shorturl.at/ROExD
KORDS is King’s Open Research Data System — our institutional platform for securely storing, managing, and sharing research data. It supports archiving and sharing, with guidance from the RDM team on metadata, licensing, and data reuse.
You can contact the RDM team here: research.data@kcl.ac.uk
Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/g...
The Research Libraries UK Conference will take place from the 25th - 27th of March. The theme of the event is 'Stewardship in challenging times: the role of libraries in supporting civic society'
You can find out more here: rlukconference.com
Really looking forward to this!
Where's the Data? 🔍🗂️
Not sure where your data belongs? Find the right repository for you at the Registry of Research Repositories.
re3data.org
#LoveData26 #KCL
“I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.” W.H. Auden
Sometimes data will no longer be available (eg planned deletion). Metadata can act as a ‘tombstone’ explaining what the data were and why they have been removed.
#LoveData26 #KCL
“Yet it is only love
which sets us free.” Maya Angelou
Set data free by including a licence saying how data can be re-used. CC licences are used for various types of material. GNU licences are often used for software, and Open Government Licences for UK public sector data.
#LoveData26 #KCL
“Forever is composed of nows.” — Emily Dickinson
Create metadata at same time data is produced so that important information and context is not forgotten.
#LoveData26 #KCL
“Love lifts us up where we belong” - Will Jennings
Subject-specific data repositories can make use of specialist metadata to provide more meaningful data descriptions to help people find data that is useful for them.
#WhereIsTheData #LoveData26 #KCL
“Come what may
I will love you
Until my dying day”
Songwriters: Kevin M. Gilbert, David Francis Baerwald.
An important metadata field is a persistent identifier! This might be a DOI or handle, which will provide long-term discovery/access to a dataset.
#LoveData26 #KCL
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet” – William Shakespeare
Define any terms, jargon and acronyms so that the data can be understood later by others; some phrases & acronyms might have multiple, very different meanings!
#LoveData26 #KCL
“Roses are red. Violets are blue. Sugar is sweet, and so are you”
Good metadata will include a description of the dataset, so when someone finds it, they can assess if it will be useful for them.
#LoveData26 #KCL
“Write your name across my heart” Randy VanWarmer & Tony Harrell
A fundamental component of metadata is who was involved in producing the dataset. As well as data creators this may include data analysers, data managers & research funders.
#LoveData26 #KCL
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For Love Data Week, we’ve been inspired by literature, poetry & song to see some of the ways metadata makes data discoverable, understandable, interoperable & reusable.
#LoveData26 #KCL
Where's the data?
Working with environmental or climate data? The archive at CEDA, the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, specialises in Earth, atmospheric, and environmental datasets.
If your data tracks the planet, give it a stable home. 🌍
archive.ceda.ac.uk
#LoveData26 #KCL
Live, laugh, love! For Love Data Week, we are spotlighting a research project which maps the science of comedy.
Dr Vanessa Pope and colleagues used a new computational method to analyse timing and structure in live stand-up comedy.
Read more here: shorturl.at/HfHPB
#LoveData26 #KCL
Where's the data? Is your sequencing data looking for a long-term partner? The European Nucleotide Archive ensures that genomic data stays findable, reusable, and interoperable. Match your sequences with the right archive. #LoveData26
www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/...