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