New 2022 UKRI Open Access policy
UKRI announced the new open access requirements in August 2021, replacing the previous policy which has been in place since 2013. Loading… This new policy brings UKRI into alignment with other Plan S signatory…
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New Read and Publish agreement with John Benjamins
The Open Research team and the Library are delighted to announce a new Read and Publish agreement between the University of St Andrews and John Benjamins Publishing Company. This three-year agreement aims to aid John…
Words in space and time, opening the future
Today we’re highlighting a recently published open access book, by Tomasz Kamusella of the School of History – ‘Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe’. Words in Space…
STACEES Sustainability Series OA digital booklet launched
To bring Open Access Week to a close, we are excited to announce the release of a new open access digital booklet from the St Andrews Network for Climate, Energy, Environment and Sustainability (STACEES)! The digital…
Centre for Energy Ethics, highlighting some OA publications
In addition to Open Access week, it is also the Centre for Energy Ethics’ conference on Energy transitions & planetary futures which coincides neatly with the upcoming COP26 summit. To highlight these events, and to…
OA Diamond Study shines a light
Today we are taking a look at the OA Diamond Journal Study, which dovetails nicely with this year’s Open Access Week theme of building structural equity. Published in March this year and commissioned by cOAlition S and…
Jisc-PNAS UK Publish and Read Agreement
It’s Open Access Week, and tied with the theme of ‘equity’ in OA publishing the Library and Open Research team are today announcing a new publisher agreement with PNAS – or for those with an aversion to acronyms, the…
Open Access Week 2021 is here!
It’s that time of the year again when the world celebrates and promotes open access! Institutions across the globe will be sharing knowledge, running events, webinars, and seminars – so follow the OA Week Twitter…
PLOS Open Access membership
With the number of publisher deals growing, we wanted to showcase one particular publisher agreement which may have slipped under the radar – PLOS Community Action Publishing and Flat Fee model. The publisher…
New De Gruyter Read and Publish deal
We are pleased to confirm that Jisc has renegotiated the De Gruyter Read and Publish deal. Principally this was in order to ensure UKRI-funded researchers could continue to benefit from the deal once the new UKRI Open…