Hail Caledonia!
To mark St Andrew’s Day 2015 the Open Access Support team is pleased to publish a guest post by Janet Aucock, Head of Metadata and Content Acquisition. St Andrew’s Day is a good day to reflect on Scottish influences on…
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RCUK Open Access compliance report
The University of St Andrews has increased its compliance with the RCUK Open Access Policy for papers published in the year to 31 July 2015. We have reported 91% of RCUK-funded papers as open access, up from 71% in the…
The Open Science Prize: enabling discoveries for health
The Open Science Prize has been launched by the Wellcome Trust, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical…
Taylor & Francis and EIFL sign deal on open access charges
Taylor & Francis have this week announced that they are going to offer substantially reduced article processing charges (APCs) for developing and transition countries, and in some cases waive charges entirely. The 12…
University of California open access policy
The University of California recently announced that they are issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy that will cover all future scholarly articles published by UC employees. The Presidential Open Access Policy…
Reflections from an intern: research data, open access, and etheses
Earlier this year we welcomed a postgraduate student to the University Library to carry out an Erasmus internship. This guest blog post by Juan Mosquera Ramallo provides a flavour of his time spent working with…
New Open Access platform for Journal of Terrorism Research
In 2010 the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at University of St Andrews launched the online Journal of Terrorism Research (JTR). With perfect timing for Open Access Week and its theme…
Luminos publishes first open access books
Luminos is an open access book publishing program run by The University of California Press. At the time of writing there are 6 open access books available, with more on the way. We mentioned the announcement of the…
Open for collaboration
Open Access Week is everywhere! Look out for events and activities around the world from 19-25 October 2015, celebrating the benefits of Open Access. The theme for this year’s 8th International Open Access Week will be…
2015 Ethos survey launched: chance to win a Kindle
The British Library Ethos service has just launched a new user survey. Just go to the website http://ethos.bl.uk and the survey should pop up automatically. Ethos are offering respondents the chance to win a Kindle.…