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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This week the University reached another milestone – with over 22,000 items now in the institutional repository! The majority of these items are freely available to view and download, free of paywalls and other…
The Wellcome Trust Open Access policy has been substantially changed, and beginning January 2021 all Welcome-funded researchers will need to ensure their research outputs are compliant with the new requirements. This…
As we reported last year Wiley is a capped deal that Jisc closely monitors in case the UK fund is used up too quickly Wiley and Jisc have esimated that from 1 July 2021 our deal will be restricted to articles funded by…
We reached a huge landmark for the St Andrews Research Repository – we now have over 20,000 items! This is a community effort, bringing together academics and support staff in a common goal to promote and extend our…
The Jisc Wiley read and publish deal was introduced this year, the principal aim of which is to encourage publishers to move away from subscriptions to an open access business model. Read and publish deals such as this…