St Andrews Journal of Art History and Museum Studies has been re-launched as an open access journal, and renamed as North Street Review: Arts and Visual Culture. “North Street Review publishes essays representing the…
Just over a year ago, un undergraduate student in St Andrews put out a call for interest in starting an academic journal. The idea was to create the ‘Journal of Sustainability’, an open access journal which would…
Intern’s log, stardate 12/07/2013: For the past six weeks I have been an intern here in the Repository Team, a post which I obtained through the St Andrews Summer Internships Scheme. It has been a busy time, and a…
Here at the library we don’t just do letters, but numbers as well. When a request came in to view a thesis entitled ‘Robert Beale and the Elizabethan polity’ by Mark Taviner, from a Mr Beale located somewhere in…
Amidst the many treasures of Special Collections lies the Von Hügel Collection. At around five thousand volumes it represents a significant gathering of 19th and 20th century works on philosophy, religion, and history,…
Every student to pass through St Andrews leaves a legacy in one form or another, and for our postgraduates this often takes the shape of a thesis. The university requires students to submit a copy of their thesis to…
Essential reference book Open Access, by Peter Suber, is now available in multiple open access formats from MIT Press: In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits…
Science Europe has just released a position statement on the transition to open access. Their press release states: Science Europe’s 51 member organisations are all committed to ensuring that results of publicly-funded…
1st April 2013 is the start date for the new RCUK policy on Open Access. We have compiled a short two page document which describes the key points in the new policy and gives useful guidance information on how to…
Following collaboration between the Library repository team and School computing officers, the University of St Andrews School of Classics has developed new web pages highlighting content from…