Image Courtesy of Google Maps Recently the Library’s Digital Research Division moved building from the University Library to just down the road. We are now in the Old Union Diner (not to be confused with the Old Union…
A new EU Horizon 2020 project has been announced, entitled High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science infrastructure, or HIRMEOS for short. We’ve written on this blog numerous times about open…
The Swiss National Science Foundation and swissuniversities have come together to agree a national strategy aiming for all publications financed with Swiss public money to be accessible free of charge by 2024. The…
The following course is available to academic staff and research students Copyright for teaching and research Date: Mon 6 Feb 2017Time: 10.00-12.00Venue: Bute Annexe – CAPOD Training Room 4 (beside front entrance of…
As described in our last post, the theme of this year’s Open Access Week ‘Open in Action’ was all about taking concrete steps to open up research and scholarship and encouraging others to do the same. With this in…
Open Access Week 2016 (24-30 Oct) aims to advance open access on a global scale, all year round. We introduced the theme of this year’s event in an earlier post. OA Week http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This…
© Universiteitsbibliotheek van Amsterdam, CC BY 4.0. Kathryn Rudy, senior lecturer in the School of Art History, has just published her latest book with Open Book Publishers. The book is licensed under a creative…
Wellcome Trust has had an Open Access policy for its research publications since 2005, and now leads the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF). Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services at Wellcome, has announced that from 1…
Well, it’s that time of year when we get to post lots of nice pictures courtesy of the open access journal BMC Ecology. Each year BMC Ecology runs a photographic image competition to celebrate biodiversity and the…
Harvard University last week released an extensive 224 page literature review on subscription journals flipping to Open Access. The review’s principal aim is to “disentangle different options”, in order to “help…