UK Water Trade Analysis (UKWIR) is offering free entry to over 1,000 of its water sector analysis reviews aimed toward serving to to enhance water and wastewater providers for purchasers, and defending the surroundings.
UKWIR is chargeable for shaping and facilitating the water trade’s collaborative analysis agenda, drawing on the enter of its water firm members throughout the UK and Eire. The analysis covers a broad spectrum of subjects essential to the UK and Irish water industries, comparable to defending and enhance consuming water high quality, by means of to lowering the trade’s carbon footprint.
In January 2023 the organisation up to date its report library and launched a MyLibrary function on its web site to offer new methods to entry, organise and share UKWIR’s work – supporting the organisation’s ambition to offer open entry to its analysis for members, collaborators, regulators, lecturers, and different key stakeholders.
Steve Kaye, UKWIR chief govt, mentioned, “Open sharing of knowledge and data performs a big function in driving collaborative analysis, innovation and studying throughout the sector and past. It will probably additionally assist construct bridges to new organisations, instigate new partnerships, and spark new concepts.
Our stakeholders and members have mentioned they need us to do extra to facilitate this – and I wholeheartedly agree. We wish to break down limitations, present open entry to our analysis and hope this may assist catalyse the collaborative vitality flowing by means of the sector – bringing in new voices and concepts to refresh and problem our considering.”
As soon as customers have discovered the related report within the library, it may be added to a personalised assortment of reviews as a part of the brand new MyLibrary function. This offers fast, quick access to chose reviews – which can be utilized for quotation, to entry a abstract of the mission’s findings and suggestions, see the organisations concerned within the supply of the initiatives and share them through social media and e-mail.
Professor Joby Boxall, Chair of Water Infrastructure Engineering on the College of Sheffield, mentioned, “This variation will increase alternatives for the educational and analysis communities to entry, share and reuse the output of water trade analysis throughout totally different disciplines. This can be a essential step to enabling extra collaborative analysis and accelerating new discoveries.”
To make sure reviews are simply accessible, UKWIR has launched a brand new quick-access function to log into the library utilizing a social media account or e-mail handle.
In addition to enabling customers to construct their very own report assortment, MyLibrary additionally offers a PDF obtain choice ought to customers want to learn reviews offline or print out a tough copy. This carries a £10 cost for non-members and is free to UKWIR’s members.
That is simply step one in opening up UKWIR’s work to non-members. Over the subsequent yr, UKWIR is planning a number of initiatives together with internet hosting lunch-and-learn classes with water firm colleagues to share the outputs of the analysis platform’s work in a extra accessible approach, together with quick movies and webinars.
UKWIR’s in depth analysis library is accessible for all through its web site – www.ukwir.org – and deciding on ‘Publications’.
