![New Cambridge University Press open access agreement](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Scottish higher education institutions have signed a new agreement with the publisher Cambridge University Press to cover the costs of open access. From now until…
![Name change policy for Napier's repository](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
If an author changes their name in part or in full, for any reason, they may wish to retroactively change their name on prior publications….
![New Sage open access agreement](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![Consultation on Plan S implementation guidance](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Yesterday, cOAlition S announced guidance on how to implement Plan S and opened a consultation period for discussion and feedback. cOAlition S welcomes feedback until 1st February…
![Which version of my paper do I deposit in WorkTribe?](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Now, this is a question we get asked a lot. So, together with the Repository team, we’ve created a video which we hope will go…
![Open access to all scientific articles in Europe by 2020](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The European Union Competitiveness Council met on 27th May in Brussels. Following the meeting, it made a major announcement that by 2020 all scientific articles in Europe must…
![Poster session at the Edinburgh Napier University Teaching Fellows conference 2016](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2016/01/REF-poster-A1.jpg)
Last week we took along two posters to the Edinburgh Napier University’s Teaching Fellows conference #tfconf2016 poster session. Thoroughly enjoyed speaking to researchers, PhD students and academics…
![Nurse Review of research councils: recommendations](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Published today and available on the gov.uk website, an independent report by Sir Paul Nurse reviews UK research councils. Nurse also makes recommendations for how research councils…
![Edinburgh Napier University's Open Access Policy](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The Research and Innovation Office have recently published the university’s Open Access Policy. We’ve update the Open Access blog to include links to this essential policy. So,…
![How to Negotiate with Publishers](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Interesting blog piece from an academic and their experience of Green OA with a publisher.