Your Open Access: In order to …
Open Access Week 2017 has been busy, everywhere. This year’s theme “Your Open Access: In order to …” has been about going beyond enabling OA and the team has continued engaging with many active researchers, learning…
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‘Untangling Academic Publishing’ – OA Week event summary
On Tuesday evening The University of St Andrews Library hosted an event titled ‘Untangling Academic Publishing: Launch and Discussion about the past and future of academic publishing’. The event took the form of a…
Your Open Access – discovery
It might be Open, but can you find it? OA Button logo https://openaccessbutton.org/ The theme of this year’s Open Access Week ‘Open in order to…’ aims to recognise the concrete benefits of open access, encouraging…
Your Open Access – statistics and usage
It’s Open Access Week again, and this year the theme is ‘Open in order to…’ This year’s theme is designed to shift discussion away from wider issues of ‘openness’, and instead direct attention to the tangible benefits…
Have you got your ORCID iD yet?
You can find out more about ORCID iDs and how to sign-up at the University’s ORCID pages. “ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in…
BMC Ecology image competition 2017 winners announced
Recently (well not that recently actually!) BioMed Central Ecology announced the winners of the 2017 image competition. This year 32 images made the cut to be mentioned in the editorial piece here –…
‘The history of scientific publishing’ – an interview with Aileen Fyfe
As a primer to this month’s event, detailed here is a recent blog post, we thought it would be a good idea to share an interview with Aileen Fyfe originally posted on the PLOS BLOGS Network in April 2016. In the…
Untangling Academic Publishing: Scottish launch for OA Week
St Andrews University Library is delighted to host the Scottish Launch of Untangling Academic Publishing during Open Access Week – the event is open to all, discussion encouraged! >Please contact…
We now have over 50,000 research outputs in Pure!
In this post we look behind the scenes into how we capture publications in order to achieve Open Access… Celebratory tiramisu Yes, the pudding is correct, we now have over 50,000 publications records in Pure! At the…
Requesting permission: reflections and perspectives from the University of St Andrews
[The following was originally published on the UKCoRR blog as guest post, here: http://ukcorr.org/2017/08/22/requesting-permission-reflections-and-perspectives-from-the-university-of-st-andrews/] In July I attended the…