UKRI Open Access Review
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) recently released a statement giving more details about the upcoming Open Access review. UKRI encompasses the 7 research funding councils formerly under the RCUK umbrella, as well as…
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Europe PMC Plus is getting an upgrade
In a recent blog post Europe PMC announced that their Europe PMC Plus system will soon be getting an upgrade. PMC Plus is the interface used by Principal Investigators to upload manuscripts to the Europe PMC…
Tickell still positive but admits much remains to be done
We previously posted in March 2016 about Adam Tickell’s advice to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills on Open Access to research (OA). Following the end of the UK Research and Innovation 5-year…
Funding available for fully Open Access publishing
As we approach Semester 2 we thought it would be a good opportunity to remind St Andrews authors who choose fully Open Access (OA) journals of funds available to support their publishing. Photo by quicksandala at…
cOAlition S: declaration for full and immediate OA announced
On 4th September 2018 Science Europe announced a new open access commitment named cOAlition S, or Plan S, signed by 11 major research funders in the EU, including UKRI (formerly RCUK). Plan S states that after 1st…