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FOI2024/00012: 2022 update on Researchfish

This request was refused in part, so we didn't provide some of the information the requester asked for. This may include information where we can neither confirm nor deny that we hold it.

Case reference FOI2024/00012

Received 5 January 2024

Published 1 July 2024

Request

Request Received: 5 January 2024

In issuing this submission, I make reference to the 2022 update on Researchfish, published by you here: https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-update-on-researchfish/

Please conduct a search in your systems from January 2022 to December 2022 and kindly provide me with:

a) Internal discussions of this incident that document how this affair evolved from UKRI's perspective. The term internal discussions includes but it is not limited to material contained in e-mails, WhatsApp messages, SMS, minutes, agendas, etc.

In focussing this part of the request, please consider that the relevant documents and communications will likely stem from members of the UKRI Board, the Executive committee, and other subcommittees such as ARAC, OCC, People & Finance, etc.

In focussing this part of the request, you can use reasonable keywords such as "Researchfish", "Tweets", "Interfolio", "Researchers", "Data protection", etc. These are just examples to aid you in your search. Conduct and guide the search from the moment complaints started to arrive up until the point UKRI considered the matter to be settled or December 2022.

b) External discussions between UKRI and Researchfish/Interfolio about this affair. Note I am not interested in the e-mails that Researchfish sent UKRI to complain about the Tweets. I am interested in discussions and communications that followed after the complaints started to arrive. Once again, conduct the search from 01-2022 to 12-2022, and restrict it through appropriate keywords such as those shown in (a). Consider that the communications will likely be conducted with accounts ending in @researchfish.com or @interfolio.com, which should help you when refining this request.

Response

Response Sent: 11 April 2024

Full details of this response are provided in the attached documents.

Documents

• FOI2024-00012 Pack A_Redacted.pdf (6.4 MB)
• FOI2024-00012 Pack B_Redacted.pdf (794.4 KB)
• FOI_Response_Letter_FOI2024_00012_Redacted.pdf (287.2 KB)

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