New Open Access Button Launched
CC-BY 4.0 (Open Access Button) The new Open Access Button has landed! The Open Access Button project was started by a group of students who were frustrated by the paywalls they came up against when searching for…
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Open Access Week – Meme Competition
Knowledge Unlatched, the crowd-funded open-access e-books pilot, has started a fantastic meme competition in celebration of Open Access week. Just go to the Knowledge Unlatched webpage, select one of the 5 memes, add…
Historians look to an open access future
Quick update from your OA support team On the first day of Open Access Week 2014 we made a visit to the Postgraduate Early Modern and Modern History Forum. Despite the fact that the attendees had yet to begin their…
Open Access Week is here!
CC-BY. Openaccessweek.org Open Access Week is upon us once again! Over the next week we will be sharing the latest news from the world of Open Access, including competitions, new technologies, and future events. So,…
Taylor & Francis APC Competition
Good news, we have a competition to share! For the past 2 years Taylor & Francis have conducted a worldwide survey of journal authors’ views on Open Access (you can read more about the survey results in a previous blog…
Elsevier: a look inside a publishing leviathan
To our enduring frustration, much of the academic publishing process is hidden from view unless of course you are having a paper published. At first thought this makes perfect sense, especially as an information…
Open Journals Event: 23rd Oct 2014
Later this month the University will be hosting an event centred around staff and/or student led Open Access journals. The event is called Managing journals: challenges and opportunities, and will primarily focus on…
Shelter report exposes housing situation in UK
In a previous blog post we highlighted a recent report studying the housing situation in St Andrews. We have now archived a new study commissioned by Shelter, and conducted by the University of St Andrews, which…
Major Nature journal to go fully Open Access
Nature Communications is to become a fully open access journal. Until this time Nature Publishing Group has only published hybrid journals under the Nature branding. To recap: hybrid journals offer a choice between…
New PLOS account makes Open Access easier and faster
One of the common problems we hear about in the Open Access team is the confusing payment systems employed by publishers. To tackle some of the complexity and time-consumption associated with payments we have entered…