![Open Access Publishing training session](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![Open access publishing at Edinburgh Napier](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![A review of transitional agreements in the UK](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Jisc has today launched a significant new report about open access publishing – a review of transitional agreements in the UK. It contains data and…
![25,000 research outputs in Edinburgh Napier University's repository](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![Open access for books tool launched by Jisc](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![UKRI open access policy - book funding](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![Springer Nature open access agreement](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![Open access publishing in Hindawi journals](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Hindawi journals – a collection of open access journals published by Wiley – are now included in the Wiley open access agreement. This includes many,…
![Scottish Universities Press website launch](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Edinburgh Napier University Library is proud to have joined with 17 other Scottish academic and research libraries to create a new open access publishing press,…
![CSO open access policy](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) has launched a new open access policy this month. All peer-reviewed research and review articles are subject to the new…