Following on from our recent post on Outernet two recent announcements about new research publication platforms have attracted attention in the Open Access community: Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO)…
Outernet is a company that is organising a so-called ‘library in space’ designed to untether information from the restrictions imposed by the Internet. The Internet as a medium for transmitting information is of course…
Over the summer, the University Library’s journal hosting service has been given a bright new look to its welcome page. As well as a fresh, more organised look to our range of journals, the main site provides users…
As expected the Research Councils UK Executive has responded to the independent Burgess Review of its Open Access policy that we blogged in April. The Executive accepts and will act on all the recommendations. Its…
(NPG), Nature Publishing Group (2015): Author Insights 2015 survey. figshare.http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425362 Each year Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan conduct an Author Insights Survey, the…
Fresh from the excitement of Repository Fringe 2015 the Jisc Pathfinder Lessons in Open Access Compliance (LOCH) partners and representatives from HEIs all over the UK met in Edinburgh on 5th August to learn from the…
Last month the University of St Andrews joined the Open Library of the Humanities – an open access mega-journal and book publisher (see previous post on OLH here). Dr. Martin Paul Eve, a founder and director of OLH,…
In recent years it has become increasingly important for researchers to publish the data underlying research. A search of Sherpa/Juliet (a search engine that compiles funder mandates and policies relating to open…
The emerging role of institutional CRIS in facilitating Open Scholarship, was recognised by the LIBER Conference Programme Committee with the Innovation Award given to the 3 most innovative and relevant papers…
Stanford University has announced a new and ambitious project to establish the world’s largest collaborative open access repository for data on autism. The project is called The Hartwell Research Technology Initiative,…