![British Psychological Society waives APCs for its members](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2017/11/British-Psychological-Society.png)
Here’s some good news for a Friday! If you’re a member of the British Psychological Society, you will not be charged an article processing charge…
![Events for Open Access Week](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Information Services and RIO have organised a number of events on all campuses to participate in Open Access Week. This annual international celebration of ‘all…
![Something to help identify a predatory publisher](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2017/05/logo_cropped.jpg)
So…we’re now into May and Beall’s Lists don’t seem to be making a come-back anytime soon. Are there any other websites that can help when trying to identify…
![New Article Processing Charge offers now available](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
It’s taken a while to go through various publisher contracts but we’ve finally managed to extract information about an increased number of APCs available to researchers…
![Elsevier, Germany...and Taiwan too](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
So, January 2017 has arrived and with it access to Elsevier journals has disappeared for over 60 institutions in Germany’s Deal Project group. The standoff between Elsevier and Project Deal…
![Beall's list stats, updates and scary info](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
On 3rd January Jeffrey Beall announced another regular update of his list of potential, possible or probable predatory publishers. Because the list of publishers is now…
![What now? Elsevier deal rejected by Germany's Project DEAL](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Recently it’s been announced that all members of Project DEAL in Germany are expecting they will have no full text access to all Elsevier academic and scientific journals from 1st…
![Open Access week of webinars from OpenAire](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
October 24th – 30th 2016 is the 9th International Open Access week. OpenAire is offering a week of webinars on Open Science themes. These free,…
![Open access increases citations](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The results of a new research study show that by publishing work in an open access repository, citations were boosted by up to a fifth….
![Open Access terminology - guest blogger!](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Today we’ve got a real treat for you, a post written by Laura Ennis, Edinburgh Napier University’s Information Services Advisor for the School of Life,…