It was announced recently in a Royal Society of Chemistry press release that one of their leading journals, Chemical Science, is to go Gold Open Access in 2015. Not only that, but Chemical Science will be waiving open…
Earlier this year Taylor & Francis carried out a worldwide survey of their authors (ie those who had published with T&F* in 2012), with the aim of exploring journal authors’ views on open access. The results have been…
IFLA and Brill recently announced that Knowledge Unlatched are the winner of this year’s IFLA/Brill Open Access Award. This year the jury reached a unanimous decision to name Knowledge Unlatched describing the…
I just thought that as the latest member of the Open Access team here at St Andrews I would introduce myself briefly and give my first impressions. Well, A bit of background first. I graduated from Robert Gordon…
Since 2000, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Scotland’s national centre of professional vocational training in performance arts, has offered research programmes leading to the awards of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)…
Wondering why your funder has an open access policy? Trying to decide if that hybrid open access journal is for you? Come and hear the expert view on open access: ‘Why Open Access Really Matters: A Discussion with…
Following quickly on from the last blog post regarding the launch of Royal Society Open Science we are delighted to announce the launch of another high quality open access journal but this time serving the humanities,…
The Royal Society will launch its second fully open access journal Royal Society Open Science in September of this year and is now calling for submissions. The journal is comprehensive in its scope covering life…
Please help a major research project to understand how you use books. OAPEN-UK, an AHRC and Jisc-funded project on open access monographs, is currently running a survey to understand how researchers in the…
Even as a student studying towards a degree in Librarianship, there are still many services libraries offer which I never learned about at university. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to do a work placement at the…