![Beyond one repository: how open access helps readers find your research](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![New Wiley open access agreement](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
A UK-wide agreement has been signed with the publisher Wiley to cover the costs of open access. From 2 March 2020, this new agreement means…
![15,000 items in the repository](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![Support with APCs at Napier](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![UKSCL - who owns scholarship?](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![Open Access Week 2019 logo](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2019/10/2019-Open-Access-Week-ENGLISH-986x310.png)
We’ve been busy organising some foyer roadshows during international Open Access Week 2019. These roadshows will take place at the following times: Monday 21st October…
![New post on the Jisc Scholarly Communication blog](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Frank Manista reports from the General Assembly for OpenAire Advance and Legal Entity meeting held in Hungary in January. 34 members of the OpenAire Advance…
![Sconul welcomes UKRI commitment to open access "Plan S".](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
UKRI and Science Foundation Ireland along with nine other European funding agencies have signed up to “Plan S”. The plan is seen as a transformative…
![An image of the header for the journal Ology, which shows the current volume and date](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2018/08/Vol01_HeaderWithText.png)
There are many types of Open Access. Green Open Access for example means depositing or ‘self-archiving’ a copyright-free version of your work in a digital…