REF2029: New year, new OA requirements
Maybe you celebrated the new year with champagne and fireworks, but we in the open access team celebrated with something far more exciting: the implementation of new open access requirements for REF2029! …
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Open access, Christmas, and public domain
In the summer, we touched on common questions and issues surrounding copyright and licensing in open research, sharing a video featuring all the various Creative Commons licences and conditions one might apply to open…
Open Access Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge?
Today marks the beginning of International Open Access Week, which this year coincides with Independent Learning Week at the University of St Andrews. As students and staff take a week to gather up and build on all…
Rights retention at the University of St Andrews
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),…
Navigating copyright and licensing in open research
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…
Exploring diamond open access options
Recently, I’ve visited several schools, offering some details on our open access policy, including what is expected of St Andrews researchers and offering details on the differences between gold and green open access.…
New St Andrews book from Scottish Universities Press
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 books: from monographs to essay collections and more
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…
Open access in the humanities
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…
Open access: community over commercialisation
In honour of International Open Access (OA) Week, which started yesterday, the open access team is starting this blog up once again, reviving it after having laid dormant for the past year. Given the time of year,…