It’s Open Access Week again, and this year the theme is ‘Open in order to…’ This year’s theme is designed to shift discussion away from wider issues of ‘openness’, and instead direct attention to the tangible benefits…
You can find out more about ORCID iDs and how to sign-up at the University’s ORCID pages. “ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in…
Recently (well not that recently actually!) BioMed Central Ecology announced the winners of the 2017 image competition. This year 32 images made the cut to be mentioned in the editorial piece here –…
As a primer to this month’s event, detailed here is a recent blog post, we thought it would be a good idea to share an interview with Aileen Fyfe originally posted on the PLOS BLOGS Network in April 2016. In the…
St Andrews University Library is delighted to host the Scottish Launch of Untangling Academic Publishing during Open Access Week – the event is open to all, discussion encouraged! >Please contact…
In this post we look behind the scenes into how we capture publications in order to achieve Open Access… Celebratory tiramisu Yes, the pudding is correct, we now have over 50,000 publications records in Pure! At the…
[The following was originally published on the UKCoRR blog as guest post, here: http://ukcorr.org/2017/08/22/requesting-permission-reflections-and-perspectives-from-the-university-of-st-andrews/] In July I attended the…
The University of St Andrews has joined 50 other institutions in supporting Knowledge Unlatched for it’s 2017 pledging period. Knowledge Unlatched is a novel crowd-funding initiative that aims to reduce the individual…
We are delighted to announce the 10,000th item to appear in St Andrews Research Repository is a paper by Peter Moran, Mike Ritchie and Nathan Bailey from the School of Biology, Centre for Biological Diversity. The…
The Open Access publisher BMC has launched a photography competition to find inspiring images that represent ‘research in progress’. Researchers are invited to submit photographs that reflect innovation, curiosity and…