It’s Open Access Week 2018!
It’s that time of year again when around the world people are celebrating all things Open Access. The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week, is “designing equitable foundations for open knowledge.” In the…
Category: Open access
Repository storms past 12000 items with Open Access article about space weather
The Library effort to make research papers Open Access continues and this week we passed the 12000 item milestone. Thanks to our colleague Kirsty Knowles the 12000th item deposited is a paper about modelling space…
Knowledge Exchange on the costs of Open Access
The cost of Open Access isn’t a late-breaking field. In 2014 a cost of £9.2m for UK research organisations to achieve RCUK Open Access compliance was quoted [1]. This is in addition to the millions paid to publishers…
University of St Andrews Open Journals System now updated
This week the University Library completed a long overdue update of our online journal hosting platform, run on the popular Open Journals System software. We are now running on version 3 of the software, which brings…
PeerJ waives publication fees in February
To celebrate 5 years as an Open Access publisher PeerJ is waiving full fees for PeerJ and PeerJ Computing articles started and submitted in February. Peer J CC BY The fee waiver applies to its full article processing…
Your Open Access: January update
We have just published the January repository statistics update. Since the last update, published in October, the repository content has continued to grow, and we now have over 11,000 items. The downloads have remained…
Repository reaches 11000 items in record time
Five months since we announced the 10,000th item in the St Andrews Research Repository the team is amazed to already be reporting the 11,000th milestone has been reached, just in time for Christmas. The item is a…
Open Access in Estonia: the Information Society
Estonia is very advanced in e-government infrastructure compared to the UK. You can’t fail to be impressed by its e-Resident initiative. In 2007 it introduced a Mobile-ID for mobile phones that permits secure…
Open Access in the Netherlands: Solid citizens
Despite its small size the Netherlands is punching above its weight in Open Access practice and advocacy, driven by a strong sense of social justice. As early as 2009 The National Library of the Netherlands was…
Open access in the United States: land of the free (access to research)
Yellowstone national park, © Quan Yuan/Getty Images In 2013, a memo from John Holdren, director for the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House, was sent to all heads of executive departments…