BBC request St Andrews thesis
Every student to pass through St Andrews leaves a legacy in one form or another, and for our postgraduates this often takes the shape of a thesis. The university requires students to submit a copy of their thesis to…
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‘Open Access’ now open access
Essential reference book Open Access, by Peter Suber, is now available in multiple open access formats from MIT Press: In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits…
Collective approach to open access by Science Europe
Science Europe has just released a position statement on the transition to open access. Their press release states: Science Europe’s 51 member organisations are all committed to ensuring that results of publicly-funded…
RCUK Open Access Policy briefing
1st April 2013 is the start date for the new RCUK policy on Open Access. We have compiled a short two page document which describes the key points in the new policy and gives useful guidance information on how to…
Highlighting open access outputs in School of Classics
Following collaboration between the Library repository team and School computing officers, the University of St Andrews School of Classics has developed new web pages highlighting content from…
Evidence for BIS open access inquiry
The UK Government’s Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) committee has published the written evidence for its inquiry into open access. The inquiry was announced at the end of Jan 2013.98 pieces of evidence have been…
Revised RCUK open access policy
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has today published the latest version of its guidance for its revised Policy on Open Access, which comes into effect on 1 April 2013. The guidelines contain additonal information on how…
March for open access
The University of St Andrews has received funding from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to help with the transition to open access. During March 2013 funds will be available to cover ‘Gold’ open…
Proposals for post-2014 REF open access
The UK funding councils have issued proposals for open access to research outputs in the next Research Exellence Framework after 2014. The proposals recognise “the significant role of institutional repositories in…
Landmark US directive on open access
On Friday 22 Feb 2013 the White House issued a directive which requires federal agencies with annual research and development budgets of $100 million or more to provide free online access to the results of that…