Balancing rights
Pushing the boundaries for Open Access while maintaining good relationships with publishers can be a tricky balancing act. Organisations are constantly negotiating on a global scale to ensure a ‘balance of rights’…
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UK alliance backs Open Access
The Wellcome Trust has announced the formation of the UK Open Access Implementation Group to ” coordinate evidence, policies, systems, advice and guidance, to make open access an easy choice for authors and one that…
Practical steps for implementing Open Access
Anyone interested in finding out what they can do in a practical way to achieve Open Access to research outputs will find the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook a valuable tool. The site provides relevant and…
Wellcome Trust Open Access funding
We have just completed our return to Wellcome detailing how our Open Access award was spent last year, and we have been notified of continued funding to support our researchers pay Open Access publishing costs. The…
Roundup of Open Access Week
As Open Access Week 2010 draws to a close, here is a quick summary of some activities that sought to increase awareness of Open Access: The Repository Support Project highlights promotional activities in UK…
Toolkit addresses researchers concerns
In the midst of Open Access Week the JISC Scholarly Communication Action Handbook has been released: “This handbook addresses scholarly communication concerns and provides actions that individuals can take to help make…
Open Access (free) cakes
We gave away free cakes in the library this afternoon to encourage people to come up and ask about Open Access. Students were pleased to hear about how they can easily view electronic theses or see what our researchers…
JISC Open Access site
JISC explores a hot topic in the area of Open Access each day this week. Visit their Open Access Week site to find out about policies, funding, exploring the benefits of Open Access and copyright issues.
Celebrating Open Access Week
18-24 Oct 2010 – expanding awareness of Open Access. To start the week off we have created a display area in the main library with loads of information about Research@StAndrews:FullText and how to benefit from Open…
A New Model for Scholarly Communications
SPARC Europe provides a very short guide to Open Access, and how to achieve it, called An introduction to the new model for scholarly communication. They note the benefits for authors: “Rather than their paper being…