Open policy finder

Open policy finder

The Jisc service formerly known as Sherpa has re-launched under the new name of ‘Open policy finder‘. This brings together the functionality of the three…

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Open Research Scotland spring meeting

Open Research Scotland spring meeting

The Edinburgh Napier University repository team attended the Open Research Scotland meeting last week, which was hosted by the Scottish Funding Council in Edinburgh. ORS…

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Open Access Publishing training session

Open Access Publishing training session

An online training session about open access publishing for Edinburgh Napier University staff and research students is running on 25 April as part of the…

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Open access publishing at Edinburgh Napier

Open access publishing at Edinburgh Napier

Edinburgh Napier University has never had any central funds to pay for the costs of making research articles open access. Nevertheless, two-thirds of the articles…

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A review of transitional agreements in the UK

A review of transitional agreements in the UK

Jisc has today launched a significant new report about open access publishing – a review of transitional agreements in the UK. It contains data and…

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25,000 research outputs in Edinburgh Napier University's repository

25,000 research outputs in Edinburgh Napier University’s repository

Edinburgh Napier’s research repository has just reached the milestone of 25,000 research outputs. Run by library staff, the repository includes a wide variety of output…

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Open access for books tool launched by Jisc

Open access for books tool launched by Jisc

A new ‘OA for books’ tool has been launched to help authors and universities check publishers’ open access policies for books. This will also help…

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UKRI open access policy - book funding

UKRI open access policy – book funding

UKRI’s open access policy will apply to books from 1 Jan 2024. On their webpage about implementing the open access policy, there is now some…

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Springer Nature open access agreement

Springer Nature open access agreement

Since 2016, there has been an open access agreement with Springer which Edinburgh Napier University has signed up to. This has allowed research articles by…

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Open access publishing in Hindawi journals

Open access publishing in Hindawi journals

Hindawi journals – a collection of open access journals published by Wiley – are now included in the Wiley open access agreement. This includes many,…

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