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We now have 10,000 items in our repository!

This week we reached another milestone – 10,000 items in the University of St Andrews Research Repository (or StARR for short if you prefer). That’s 10,000 full-texts of research publications, theses and other content…

Brill unlatches 20 open access books

The academic publisher Brill has announced that it has now published 20 fully open access books funded under the Knowledge Unlatched scheme. The scheme’s vision is to create a sustainable and fair business model to…

Your chance to tell us about your use of ORCID

Are you a researcher or research student in St Andrews? Please take part in our 10 minute survey about the use of Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCID): This survey aims to establish the extent to which…

Digital Research Open Office – every Wednesday afternoon

Digital Research Open OfficeEvery Wednesday2-4pm The Library’s Digital Research division now has an open office every Wednesday afternoon. From 2pm to 4pm anyone can drop in and see us, and we will ensure there will be…

The Open Access Team have a new home

Image Courtesy of Google Maps Recently the Library’s Digital Research Division moved building from the University Library to just down the road. We are now in the Old Union Diner (not to be confused with the Old Union…

National Open Access strategy for Switzerland

The Swiss National Science Foundation and swissuniversities have come together to agree a national strategy aiming for all publications financed with Swiss public money to be accessible free of charge by 2024. The…

Training course: Copyright for teaching and learning

The following course is available to academic staff and research students Copyright for teaching and research Date: Mon 6 Feb 2017Time: 10.00-12.00Venue: Bute Annexe – CAPOD Training Room 4 (beside front entrance of…

Jisc Research Data Network Workshop

At the end of this month, St Andrews will be hosting the third Jisc Research Data Network Workshop in the Medical Building, North Haugh on 30th November from 10am-5pm. The purpose of the workshop is to bring…

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…