REF2029: New year, new OA requirements
Maybe you celebrated the new year with champagne and fireworks, but we in the open access team celebrated with something far more exciting: the implementation of new open access requirements for REF2029! …
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Theses in the St Andrews Research Repository: More Than Just a Final Resting Place
This is a guest post by Theses team colleague Leena Mitford. With winter graduations just around the corner, the end of the thesis cycle for 2025 is fast approaching. For the Libraries and Museums team, it has been a…
Who owns our knowledge? Reflections from UKSG 2025
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,…
Electronic Research Notebooks: Upcoming Training
Search ‘Library’ on PDMS to register. Introduction to LabArchives Electronic Research Notebook Thursday 9th October 1-2pm Introduction to Inventory Wednesday 29th October 11am-noon Building Basics: Forms,…
Open access in the UK vs. internationally
The summer is gone, the population of golfers in St Andrews is giving way to the return of staff and students. Almost half of the student body at the University of St Andrews is comprised of international students, and…
Navigating copyright and licensing in open research
Imagine: you’ve submitted an article to a journal, and, after a few minor tweaks and changes, it’s been accepted. Congratulations! After diligently creating a record and depositing your accepted manuscript in Pure (as…
New St Andrews book from Scottish Universities Press
In 2024, Scottish Universities Press, a publisher built out of the collaboration of 20 academic libraries across Scotland, began publishing open access books by Scotland-based academics. The remit for proposals was…
Open access books: from monographs to essay collections and more
Open access first became available in scientific circles way back in 1991, when Paul Ginsparg founded the arXiv archive, which was initially housing only preprints (that is, research pre-peer review and acceptance) for…
Open access in the humanities
Depending on what your role is at the university – staff, student, actively involved but distant cousin of a student or staff member – your relationship to open access will likely vary. Maybe you’ve published open…
Open access: community over commercialisation
In honour of International Open Access (OA) Week, which started yesterday, the open access team is starting this blog up once again, reviving it after having laid dormant for the past year. Given the time of year,…