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Is open access the future of scholarly publishing?

Open access is bringing exciting changes to scholarly communication. It is currently a widely discussed and debated topic by government, institutions and publishers. Open Access Week provides an opportunity to come and…

Major new open access journal publishes first articles

“eLife, the new open-access journal for outstanding scientific advancements, has published its first four research articles.” The new journal, backed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and…

St Andrews events for Open Access Week 2012

Scholarly communication is changing! Many research outputs are now published in open access (OA) journals, or deposited in open access repositories. Governments and funders support open access to publicly-funded…

The open access spectrum

The open access movement has been growing for 10 years since Open Access was first clearly defined in 2002. There is now a range of methods for making scholarly publications free to readers, and there is debate on the…

Setting the default to open

New recommendations for open access policy have been released by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). An announcement from SPARC describes the guidelines that mark 10 years since the first clearly defined ideas…

Massive shift to open access for UK

July 16 was a big day for open access in the UK. The latest SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) by Peter Suber describes the ‘tipping point’ for the open access movement. SOAN #165 (Sep 2, 2012) gives a detailed…

Free ebook explores women and wills in French history

NEW published Aug 2012:“For the salvation of my soul”: women and wills in medieval and early modern France edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Kathryn L. ReyersonISBN 978-1-907548-09-3 We are delighted to announce the…

Open access support from RSC

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced a new scheme to help researchers pay for open access publishing. “UK institutes who are RSC Gold customers will shortly receive credit equal to the subscription paid,…

Latest open access content from journal hosting service

The latest open access issue of the Journal of Terrorism Research has been published. The journal is hosted by the University of St Andrews Library Journal Hosting Service and published by the Centre for the Study of…

UK Research Councils strengthen open access policy

RCUK has announced a new policy on open access to research outputs, significantly strengthening the existing requirements for grant holders to ensure their peer-reviewed articles are freely available to all. The new…