The new RCUK Policy on Open Access was implemented on 1st April 2013. We have updated a short two page document which describes the key points in the new policy and gives useful guidance information for St Andrews…
The UK Government’s Business, Innovation and Skills Committee published their report today following an inquiry into open access. Parliament announced the report, emphasising the role of repositories: “The Government’s…
Scholars in Humanities and Social Sciences now have an opportunity to publish open access monographs with Brill’s new initiative: “As a major publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Biology and International Law,…
In what is becoming a regular summer event, this week we celebrated another landmark for our open access repository with the 3000th item made available in Research@StAndrews:FullText Akira O’Connor deposited a version…
On behalf of UK higher education funding bodies, HEFCE has announced a consultation on open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework. The funding bodies are committed to a policy that supports increased…
St Andrews Journal of Art History and Museum Studies has been re-launched as an open access journal, and renamed as North Street Review: Arts and Visual Culture. “North Street Review publishes essays representing the…
Just over a year ago, un undergraduate student in St Andrews put out a call for interest in starting an academic journal. The idea was to create the ‘Journal of Sustainability’, an open access journal which would…
Intern’s log, stardate 12/07/2013: For the past six weeks I have been an intern here in the Repository Team, a post which I obtained through the St Andrews Summer Internships Scheme. It has been a busy time, and a…
Here at the library we don’t just do letters, but numbers as well. When a request came in to view a thesis entitled ‘Robert Beale and the Elizabethan polity’ by Mark Taviner, from a Mr Beale located somewhere in…
Amidst the many treasures of Special Collections lies the Von Hügel Collection. At around five thousand volumes it represents a significant gathering of 19th and 20th century works on philosophy, religion, and history,…