Over 22,000 items in the Repository!
This week the University reached another milestone – with over 22,000 items now in the institutional repository! The majority of these items are freely available to view and download, free of paywalls and other…
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Wellcome Trust Open Access policy 2021
The Wellcome Trust Open Access policy has been substantially changed, and beginning January 2021 all Welcome-funded researchers will need to ensure their research outputs are compliant with the new requirements. This…
Wiley 2021 Read and Publish deal restriction
As we reported last year Wiley is a capped deal that Jisc closely monitors in case the UK fund is used up too quickly Wiley and Jisc have esimated that from 1 July 2021 our deal will be restricted to articles funded by…
20,000 items in the University’s Research Repository!
We reached a huge landmark for the St Andrews Research Repository – we now have over 20,000 items! This is a community effort, bringing together academics and support staff in a common goal to promote and extend our…
Wiley deal further amendments
The Jisc Wiley read and publish deal was introduced this year, the principal aim of which is to encourage publishers to move away from subscriptions to an open access business model. Read and publish deals such as this…
New deals with RSC and Thieme chemistry collection
We’re happy to announce that we have signed up to two more publisher deals, both of which are publishers of major Chemistry journals. Royal Society of Chemistry Read and Publish deal This two-year deal converts…
JISC Wiley deal amendments
Back in April we promoted the new Wiley Read and Publish agreement, negotiated by JISC on behalf of UK academic institutions – https://openresearch.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/04/jisc-strikes-deal-with-wiley.html The deal…
New open access deal with Microbiology Society
The University of St Andrews has signed up to a 2-year Publish and Read deal with the Microbiology Society. The Microbiology Society publishes 7 journals, including Journal of General Virology, Microbial Genomics, and…
New IOP Open Access Deal
The University of St Andrews has now signed up to a three-year Transitional Open Access deal with the Institute of Physics, negotiated by Jisc. This deal will give all St Andrews corresponding authors open access at no…
Jisc strikes deal with Wiley
Announced on 2 March, the Jisc-Wiley UK transitional Read and Publish agreement means researchers in participating institutions can publish their work in eligible fully Open Access and hybrid (OnlineOpen) journals at…