Earlier this year I attended the UKSG Conference in Brighton, a key event for those of us working in scholarly communication and open research. This annual event brings together librarians and other HEI professionals,…
In this post, we’d like to introduce you to developments in diamond open access publishing, which is free for authors and readers and typically scholar-led and supported by institutions. We offer this not only for the…
Today we are taking a look at the OA Diamond Journal Study, which dovetails nicely with this year’s Open Access Week theme of building structural equity. Published in March this year and commissioned by cOAlition S and…
It’s Open Access Week, and tied with the theme of ‘equity’ in OA publishing the Library and Open Research team are today announcing a new publisher agreement with PNAS – or for those with an aversion to acronyms, the…
As we reported last year Wiley is a capped deal that Jisc closely monitors in case the UK fund is used up too quickly Wiley and Jisc have esimated that from 1 July 2021 our deal will be restricted to articles funded by…
Announced on 2 March, the Jisc-Wiley UK transitional Read and Publish agreement means researchers in participating institutions can publish their work in eligible fully Open Access and hybrid (OnlineOpen) journals at…
A mere 5 months since out last milestone was reached in the repository, we are celebrating our 18000th deposit! North Atlantic Craton architecture revealed by kimberlite-hosted crustal zircons was recently published…
Just before Christmas, following consultation with Schools and approval by Research Committee, Professor Tom Brown, Vice-Principal (Research and Innovation), signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment…