Scottish higher education institutions have signed a new agreement with the publisher SAGE to cover the costs of open access. From now until the end of 2022, all authors of articles published in SAGE journals where the corresponding author is
When you deposit an accepted manuscript in the University’s repository, wherever possible the text becomes available via the public webpages. However, this is just one way readers can find and access your research. Once metadata and PDFs are deposited, they
Update 25 Sep 2020: The Wiley agreement described below has been temporarily paused from 12 Oct until the end of 2020. There was a cap on the annual number of articles that could be made open access under the deal,
Have you got any questions about adding your research outputs to WorkTribe? Do you know how to deposit copies of your work to make it open access? Come to our Repository Drop-in Sessions to find out the answer to these
This is an important year for research active staff at Edinburgh Napier University. We’ve collected together a few key things that you need to know to be REF ready! Have you clicked the Deposit button? When you’re adding work to
As we enter 2020, we are celebrating reaching 15,000 records deposited in the University’s research repository! You can browse all discoverable records online. Our 15,000th discoverable record was: Vogogias, T., Visualisation Support for Biological Bayesian Network Inference, the thesis of
Before you finish work and have a well-earned break over the festive period, we thought it would be a good time to remind you to Act on acceptance when you have an article accepted for publication. With everything that goes
Institutional repositories are not only for journal articles – all kinds of research outputs can be deposited and made open access. At Edinburgh Napier University, one of the services offered to researchers is to host datasets. In the context of
Edinburgh Napier University supports the ‘green’ route to open access, where authors deposit copies of their research in the institutional repository. Many authors also want to publish articles in ‘gold’ open access in journals with Creative Commons licenses. There are
When an academic publishes a journal article, who owns the copyright in the text, and what are you permitted to do with it? The answers to these questions can be surprisingly complex, and will vary depending on both an institition’s