Open Access and COVID-19
With St Andrews academics, support staff, and students now working off-campus, free and immediate access to scholarly literature online has never been more relevant to our community. Put simply, our homes have become…
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We now have over 17,000 items in the repository!
The St Andrews Research Repository has now passed 17,000 items! Of this number there are over 5200 theses, and almost 10,000 journal articles. The Repository contains research publications by St Andrews researchers, as…
Charlie Chaplin and Pixar’s WALL-E
It’s Charlie Chaplin’s birthday! So we are highlighting an article in our institutional repository that focuses on the slapstick comedy tradition of the silent era and specifically how the themes of Fordism and…
16,000 items now in St Andrews Research Repository
Today the St Andrews Research Repository reached another Milestone – 16,000 items! The 16,000th item was: ‘Of decolonial imaginings in Black Panther‘, by Muneerah Razak. ‘Of decolonial imaginings in Black Panther’ was…
Breaking free – out of embargo
The route to Open Access can be surprisingly long and winding. In this last post for Open Access Week 2018 we look at some examples of publications that are now freely available to all from our repository – in most…
St Andrews Research Repository reaches 1 million downloads!
The University Library has been celebrating this week as the University’s research repository reaches over 1 million downloads! This enviable download figure is derived from IRUS-UK – a statistics service for UK…
Repository storms past 12000 items with Open Access article about space weather
The Library effort to make research papers Open Access continues and this week we passed the 12000 item milestone. Thanks to our colleague Kirsty Knowles the 12000th item deposited is a paper about modelling space…
Repository reaches 11000 items in record time
Five months since we announced the 10,000th item in the St Andrews Research Repository the team is amazed to already be reporting the 11,000th milestone has been reached, just in time for Christmas. The item is a…