In 2024, Scottish Universities Press, a publisher built out of the collaboration of 20 academic libraries across Scotland, began publishing open access books by Scotland-based academics. The remit for proposals was…
Open access first became available in scientific circles way back in 1991, when Paul Ginsparg founded the arXiv archive, which was initially housing only preprints (that is, research pre-peer review and acceptance) for…
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,…
SUP will utilise and build on the academic and library communities of the partner institutions, to harness expertise and provide quality publishing options for academic monographs. Upcoming SUP webinar and Q&A The…
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…
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…
The Open Research team and the Library are delighted to announce a new Read and Publish agreement between the University of St Andrews and John Benjamins Publishing Company. This three-year agreement aims to aid John…
It’s Open Access Week, and tied with the theme of ‘equity’ in OA publishing the Library and Open Research team are today announcing a new publisher agreement with PNAS – or for those with an aversion to acronyms, the…