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Octopus is a new publishing platform for scholarly research. Funded by UKRI – the UK government research funder.
Here researchers can publish all their work for free, in full detail, enabling peer review and quality assessment, gaining credit for what they have done, and allowing the research community to build upon it.
UK Government Areas of Research Interest
Octopus is now populated with research problems derived from Areas of Research Interest published by UK Government departments. To view these, click on the button below. Publishing a Rationale/Hypothesis linked to one of these Research Problems will give the option of passing your details to the relevant government department. We hope this helps collaboration between government and researchers.
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