Open in Action conversations
As described in our last post, the theme of this year’s Open Access Week ‘Open in Action’ was all about taking concrete steps to open up research and scholarship and encouraging others to do the same. With this in…
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Our commitment to putting Open in action
Open Access Week 2016 (24-30 Oct) aims to advance open access on a global scale, all year round. We introduced the theme of this year’s event in an earlier post. OA Week http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This…
St Andrews supports new publisher requirements set by Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust has had an Open Access policy for its research publications since 2005, and now leads the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF). Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services at Wellcome, has announced that from 1…
BMC Ecology image competition: results
Well, it’s that time of year when we get to post lots of nice pictures courtesy of the open access journal BMC Ecology. Each year BMC Ecology runs a photographic image competition to celebrate biodiversity and the…
Flipping journals to Open Access: an extensive Harvard University literature review
Harvard University last week released an extensive 224 page literature review on subscription journals flipping to Open Access. The review’s principal aim is to “disentangle different options”, in order to “help…
We’ve now reached 8000 items in our repository!
Last week the St Andrews Research Repository reached a new milestone: 8000 items! The last major content milestone we celebrated was when we reached 5000 items, this was back in February 2015. The blog post we wrote in…
Wellcome Open Research: a new publication initiative
Wellcome Open Research is a new initiative which allows researchers to publish their results faster and more transparently. The service is powered by F1000Research which is an innovative publishing platform that uses…
Open Access Week 2016: “Open in Action”
http://www.openaccessweek.org CC BY 4.0 The theme of Open Access Week 2016 will be “Open in Action”. Open Access Week is an international initiative designed to raise the profile of Open Access and push towards…
Getty Publications publishes two open access catalogues
Mosaic of a Lion Attacking an Onage. http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/. CC BY. © 2016 J. Paul Getty Trust In 2014, Getty Publications launched its Virtual Library, initially offering access to 250 books,…
St Andrews researcher’s results launch a new Open Access journal
Published in Volume 1, Issue 1 of APL Photonics the paper is co-authored by Professor Sven Höfling of the Quantum Physics and Quantum Engineering Group in the School of Physics and Astronomy. Sven works in the exciting…