The University of St Andrews has joined 50 other institutions in supporting Knowledge Unlatched for it’s 2017 pledging period. Knowledge Unlatched is a novel crowd-funding initiative that aims to reduce the individual…
We are delighted to announce the 10,000th item to appear in St Andrews Research Repository is a paper by Peter Moran, Mike Ritchie and Nathan Bailey from the School of Biology, Centre for Biological Diversity. The…
The Open Access publisher BMC has launched a photography competition to find inspiring images that represent ‘research in progress’. Researchers are invited to submit photographs that reflect innovation, curiosity and…
This week we reached another milestone – 10,000 items in the University of St Andrews Research Repository (or StARR for short if you prefer). That’s 10,000 full-texts of research publications, theses and other content…
The academic publisher Brill has announced that it has now published 20 fully open access books funded under the Knowledge Unlatched scheme. The scheme’s vision is to create a sustainable and fair business model to…
Are you a researcher or research student in St Andrews? Please take part in our 10 minute survey about the use of Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCID): This survey aims to establish the extent to which…
Digital Research Open OfficeEvery Wednesday2-4pm The Library’s Digital Research division now has an open office every Wednesday afternoon. From 2pm to 4pm anyone can drop in and see us, and we will ensure there will be…
Image Courtesy of Google Maps Recently the Library’s Digital Research Division moved building from the University Library to just down the road. We are now in the Old Union Diner (not to be confused with the Old Union…
A new EU Horizon 2020 project has been announced, entitled High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science infrastructure, or HIRMEOS for short. We’ve written on this blog numerous times about open…
The Swiss National Science Foundation and swissuniversities have come together to agree a national strategy aiming for all publications financed with Swiss public money to be accessible free of charge by 2024. The…