The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) has just been launched with over 750 academic books available under an Open Access licence. Books are available in a range of subjects with a particularly strong presence in…
The Guardian has published 2 articles using the term ‘academic spring’ to describe revolutionary changes in academic publishing, and Radio 4’s Today programme highlights a call to ‘share research papers’. ‘Wellcome…
Times Higher Education has reported that the Wellcome Trust may require institutions to take more responsibility for ensuring that publications associated with a Wellcome-funded grant are made open access. This may go…
The University of St Andrews Library has just launched a new service to support academic staff and students at the University wishing to run their own online journal. The journal hosting service uses OJS (Open Journal…
This week we have reached another landmark, with 1500 items in Research@StAndrews:FullText. Only 9 months ago we celebrated the 1000th deposit, after the repository had been in existence for 5 years. The sharp increase…
We are very encouraged by the recent news from EThOS, highlighting positive comments about the availability of UK PhD theses for a global audience. EThOS is a British Library national UK service for delivering…
We are happy to announce that the University of St Andrews Library has arranged for Open Access Membership with Royal Society Publishing. This means that if you are a researcher at St Andrews and have an article…
We are delighted that we are now able to show usage statistics for content in our institutional repository, Research@StAndrews:FullText. Thanks to the services provided by the Scottish Digital Library Consortium…
The start of 2012 has seen more content added to Research@StAndrews: FullText than in any previous month. Much of this activity is down to a new project under way to create an archive for the Sustainable Development…
The Research Works Act seeks to stop organisations from having conditions in their grants that require research outputs to be made open access. At a time when the UK Government are raising their commitment to open…