The University Library is currently running a survey to find our what you think about our services. The survey should only take around 5 minutes to complete, and you could win a £200 Amazon gift card. Questions are…
We previously posted in March 2016 about Adam Tickell’s advice to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills on Open Access to research (OA). Following the end of the UK Research and Innovation 5-year…
As we approach Semester 2 we thought it would be a good opportunity to remind St Andrews authors who choose fully Open Access (OA) journals of funds available to support their publishing. Photo by quicksandala at…
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…
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…
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…
To mark the 15,000th item deposited in the St Andrews Research Repository the Open Access Support team is pleased to publish a guest post by its co-author, Andy Gardner: Dyble, M, Gardner, A, Vinicius, L & Migliano, A…