Last month the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference was held, with the title ‘Aligning strategies to enable Open Access’. Over 170 participants from 37 countries and 5 continents attended the event, and delegates came…
In September, researchers including Professor Munafò of the University of Bristol launched the UK reproducibility network, at an event which brought together representatives from some of the UK’s major research…
The need for guidance Funders have introduced open data policies that require researchers to share the data or digital objects resulting from their research. However, these policies often lack a clear definition of…
Funder open letter ORCID have published an open letter from funders who are committed to implementing ORCID iDs in accordance with best practice guidelines to make data sharing easier. Funders who have signed the…
Research England has announced that Clarivate Analytics’ Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) has been chosen to provide the citation metrics for the next UK research assessment exercise – REF2021. The data…
Following the recent Wellcome announcement of its revised Open Access Policy, today new guidelines on the implementation of Plan S have been announced. The guidelines are published in full with details of technical…
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) are organising a webinar on 11 December at 3pm CET (2pm GMT) on the subject of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data, FAIRness and FAIR compliance. The…
Following an 8 month review the Wellcome Trust announced its latest Open access policy on 5 November. Source: lisaleo http://mrg.bz/fWSgxX © 2018 MORGUEFILE. All Rights Reserved. Some key changes Deposit into PubMed…
The route to Open Access can be surprisingly long and winding. In this last post for Open Access Week 2018 we look at some examples of publications that are now freely available to all from our repository – in most…
As part of #ThesisThursday in Open Access Week we are pleased to host a fascinating guest post from our colleagues in the Library E-theses team: Why do we make research theses available in the St Andrews Research…