Syria Studies, the new open access journal of the Centre for Syrian Studies (CSS) at University of St Andrews, is being launched today in the School of International Relations. Syria Studies is a peer reviewed journal…
‘Open Science’ seems to be one of the hottest topics around, with organisations and funders from the G8 downwards stressing the importance of open data in driving everything from global innovation through to more…
From 13 – 18 January, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is hosting Copyright Week. Each day is devoted to a different issue, with participating organisations contributing blog posts and encouraging online…
From now to 31 March 2014, any article that is submitted to PeerJ PrePrints can go on to be published in the innovative open access journal PeerJ entirely for free. PeerJ is an open access, peer-reviewed, scholarly…
The Centre for Housing Research at the University of St Andrews released a new report just before the end of 2013. ‘Growing economies and building homes: Reconciling growth and housing wellbeing in St Andrews‘ examines…
The Journal of Terrorism Research has just become a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). JTR is published by the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at University of…
St Andrews researchers are invited to complete a very short survey on attitudes to open access. Professor Thomas Eger from University of Hamburg, together with doctoral student Marc Scheufen, is conducting a survey on…
The Max Planck Society has presented a draft mission statement in support of the continuing growth of open access. Ten years since the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities was…
The European Commission has launched its Horizon 2020 programme of research funding. Open access remains a core principle, and the model grant agreement describes the expectations for grant recipients. All…
An international consortium of libraries and funding agencies has announced an innovative new model to achieve open access to peer-reviewed literature in high-energy physics. Through a long period of consultation and a…