St Andrews University Library is delighted to host the Scottish Launch of Untangling Academic Publishing during Open Access Week – the event is open to all, discussion encouraged! >Please contact…
In this post we look behind the scenes into how we capture publications in order to achieve Open Access… Celebratory tiramisu Yes, the pudding is correct, we now have over 50,000 publications records in Pure! At the…
[The following was originally published on the UKCoRR blog as guest post, here: http://ukcorr.org/2017/08/22/requesting-permission-reflections-and-perspectives-from-the-university-of-st-andrews/] In July I attended the…
The University of St Andrews has joined 50 other institutions in supporting Knowledge Unlatched for it’s 2017 pledging period. Knowledge Unlatched is a novel crowd-funding initiative that aims to reduce the individual…
We are delighted to announce the 10,000th item to appear in St Andrews Research Repository is a paper by Peter Moran, Mike Ritchie and Nathan Bailey from the School of Biology, Centre for Biological Diversity. The…
The Open Access publisher BMC has launched a photography competition to find inspiring images that represent ‘research in progress’. Researchers are invited to submit photographs that reflect innovation, curiosity and…
This week we reached another milestone – 10,000 items in the University of St Andrews Research Repository (or StARR for short if you prefer). That’s 10,000 full-texts of research publications, theses and other content…
The academic publisher Brill has announced that it has now published 20 fully open access books funded under the Knowledge Unlatched scheme. The scheme’s vision is to create a sustainable and fair business model to…
Are you a researcher or research student in St Andrews? Please take part in our 10 minute survey about the use of Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCID): This survey aims to establish the extent to which…
Digital Research Open OfficeEvery Wednesday2-4pm The Library’s Digital Research division now has an open office every Wednesday afternoon. From 2pm to 4pm anyone can drop in and see us, and we will ensure there will be…