Neil is Associate Director of the UK Reproducibility Network, head of the UKRN’s Open Research Programme and chair of the Directory of Open Access Books Supervisory Board
5 pieces
Newest first, since December 2014
· Comment
More AI will not beat the Red Queen
The past few months have seen a crescendo of commentary highlighting threats to academic quality review, not least from the effects of GenAI use. In this article, Neil Jacobs, Natasha Mauther, Peter Flach and Marcus Muna
With Natasha Mauthner and Marcus Munafò
· Comment
The REF helps make research open, transparent, and credible – let’s not lose that
Ben Tatler and Neil Jacobs believe REF should be central to solving the collective action problems around openness, transparency, and accountability in research.
With Ben Tatler
· Comment
Open science, research indicators and reproducibility
Neil Jacobs of Jisc ponders the latest developments in open science, here and in the EU.
· Analysis
Open Research in 2018, real or fake news?
The announcement of an Open Research Europe platform, to be linked to Horizon 2020, is just the latest example of a trend for research funders to own their own means of publication. Neil Jacobs from Jisc asks how many sw
· Policy Watch
Open Access: what is going on?
There are conflicting policies on Open Access (Open Access) from the Research Councils, Government and the funding councils which has led to some confusion. Neil Jacobs, Head of Scholarly Communications Support at Jisc a