Have you benefited from FP7 funding? Then this pilot may be of interest. A fund of EUR 4m has been established to help cover the…
If you are unsure as to what is meant by “date of acceptance” the FAQs for the Policy for Open Access in the next REF…
Have you seen this on OpenAIRE’s website? Open Access repositories, publications, statistics and information about the open access national environment for each EU nation. The information is well organised,…
A major HEFCE study on “Monographs and open access” has been released. The study was led by Geoffey Crossick and focuses on monographs in the…
Cambridge University published ‘Open Access and the Humanities’ in November 2014, with the ebook version available as open access. Subtitled ‘Contexts, controversies and the future’ it…
Simon Marginson, writing for the Guardian, asks a very pertinent question- UK research is getting better all the time- or is it? He questions the large…
Executive Director of Jisc Digital Resources and CEO of Jisc Colections, Lorraine Estelle, has written a very thought provoking piece about the price of open access…
Dr Caroline Edwards, Co-Director of the Open Library for Humanities, gave a keynote speech at ‘Discovering Open Practices’ training event for PhD students. She discussed…
This A pan-European Open Scholarship Initiative involving 50 partners, from all EU countries, and beyond, will collaborate to work on this large-scale initiative that aims…
Publisher Macmillan has just announced that it’s allowing all research papers to be made free to view. This applies to the journal ‘Nature’ and 48 other journals Macmillan…