If you are publishing an article, you may be asked, depending on the journal, whether you’d like your piece to be made open access or not. Alongside this, you may be met with a sudden request to pay thousands of pounds…
Many of the emails and questions the Open Access team receives can understandably be boiled down to: My article was accepted – how do I pay the open access fees? Open access fees, or article processing charges (APCs),…
Imagine: you’ve submitted an article to a journal, and, after a few minor tweaks and changes, it’s been accepted. Congratulations! After diligently creating a record and depositing your accepted manuscript in Pure (as…
Depending on what your role is at the university – staff, student, actively involved but distant cousin of a student or staff member – your relationship to open access will likely vary. Maybe you’ve published open…
With the University’s new Open Access policy now fully in motion, we thought it important to also share Open Research developments outwith the St Andrews community. From the recent Open Research Working Group meeting,…
The University of St Andrews has launched a new Open Access policy to harmonise the latest requirements from research funders and provide greater support to our researchers, as well as ensuring alignment with the open…
In this post, we’d like to introduce you to developments in diamond open access publishing, which is free for authors and readers and typically scholar-led and supported by institutions. We offer this not only for the…
“The University of St Andrews will continue to implement a ‘no hybrid’ approach” Springer Nature (SN) and Jisc recently announced the successful application for Jisc-approved Transformative Journal (TJ) status for…
As part of the University’s ongoing commitment to open research, there has for many years been an Open Research Working Group. The ORWG brings together researchers, the Library, Research and Innovation Services, and…
Following the implementation of the new UKRI Open Access Policy, we would like to clarify the current position with Nature-branded journals. The University currently has an agreement in place with Springer Nature for…