Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University produce a large amount of research data, much of which can be added to Worktribe and made public. We encourage…
The university has a new Research Publications and Open Access Policy. The new policy is designed so that: More information is available on the Open…
FAIR data is research data which meets the FAIR principles: Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability. Some of these principles – especially around findability and accessibility…
While a lot of the focus for open access is on journals, there are now many book publishers that authors can work with to make…
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…
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…
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…
Jisc has today launched a significant new report about open access publishing – a review of transitional agreements in the UK. It contains data and…
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…
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…