![Step by step towards the next REF...](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
A number of things have been happening over the last few months as we move towards the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. The results of which are expected to…
![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,…
![Thinking of doing some research this summer?](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
If you’re thinking of doing some research over the summer, we’ve got some great resources to help you. Have you seen our Decision Tree? This…
![Save a date - 'Act on acceptance' roadshows](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Over the next few weeks ‘Act on acceptance’ roadshows will be taking place in campus foyers. HEFCE’s rules about eligibility for the next REF are changing from 1st…
![Sherpa REF beta service now available](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Last year we blogged about the development of a new service that wasn’t quite available yet, called Sherpa REF. The beta version of Sherpa REF is now available…
![Act on acceptance - what is it?](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
We have just added an act on acceptance page to this blog but…what does it mean? Over the next year or so the rules about making your work…
![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…
![Open access and monograph publishing](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The Monographs and Open Access Project published its report on monographs and arts, humanities and social sciences, considering how they fit with developments in open…
![Open Access for the next REF - policy adjustments](https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/open-access/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
HEFCE recently published adjustments to their open access policy for inclusion in the next REF. Acknowledging that workflows and information may not be ready in…