EPSRC reminder on open access
EPSRC has published a reminder to grant holders that published research arising from EPSRC funding must be made openly accessible by any available route. “The current EPSRC policy requires that all published research…
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UK Government minister’s support for open access
The Government Minister for universities and science, David Willets, made a significant speech yesterday in support of a transition to open access. Speaking to the Publishers Association, he made strong statements of…
Spreading the word on public engagement
A group of researchers at St Andrews recently published an assessment of their public engagement activities in the open access journal PLoS ONE. One of the authors, Mark Bowler stated: It’s great to have it in a high…
Discovery service for open access books
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) has just been launched with over 750 academic books available under an Open Access licence. Books are available in a range of subjects with a particularly strong presence in…
Open access ‘revolution’ in the news
The Guardian has published 2 articles using the term ‘academic spring’ to describe revolutionary changes in academic publishing, and Radio 4’s Today programme highlights a call to ‘share research papers’. ‘Wellcome…
Wellcome Trust suggests institutional responsibility for open access compliance
Times Higher Education has reported that the Wellcome Trust may require institutions to take more responsibility for ensuring that publications associated with a Wellcome-funded grant are made open access. This may go…
New journal hosting service for St Andrews
The University of St Andrews Library has just launched a new service to support academic staff and students at the University wishing to run their own online journal. The journal hosting service uses OJS (Open Journal…
Latest landmark for Research@StAndrews:FullText
This week we have reached another landmark, with 1500 items in Research@StAndrews:FullText. Only 9 months ago we celebrated the 1000th deposit, after the repository had been in existence for 5 years. The sharp increase…
St Andrews supports e-theses online service
We are very encouraged by the recent news from EThOS, highlighting positive comments about the availability of UK PhD theses for a global audience. EThOS is a British Library national UK service for delivering…
St Andrews open access membership with Royal Society
We are happy to announce that the University of St Andrews Library has arranged for Open Access Membership with Royal Society Publishing. This means that if you are a researcher at St Andrews and have an article…