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…
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 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…
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…
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,…
This is the first in a trio of posts about research data in the humanities. Naming conventions Naming conventions exist to improve searchability/findability of files, to keep consistency in file management across a…
This is the final post in a trio of posts about research data in the humanities. Final tips and tricks for our overview of data in the humanities! As with the previous post, each of the below could appear as a…
This is the second in a trio of posts about research data in the humanities. Back with some more tips and tricks for managing research data in the humanities! Each of the below could appear as a consideration in a…
This is the first in a trio of posts about research data in the humanities. I. What is research data in the humanities? When it comes to research data in the humanities, what ‘counts’ as data can be…
Following the UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science and the assembly on 11 February, the Collections and Open Research teams have created a display in the Main Library and an accompanying twitter…