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…
JISC, RLUK, SCONUL and the Association of Research Managers and Administrators have recently published a thought-provoking discussion paper, Academic journal markets, their limitations, and the…
Have a good read of JISC’s first ever quarterly digest of news about their work in open access. Open Access Update gives plenty of links…
Booking is now open for a three day researcher development event, Leap Into Research. Jointly organised by the Research and Innovation Office and Information Services,…
The European Commission launched the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot early in 2015, https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot, to fund Open Access publishing fees for publications arising from finished…
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…
As part of Open Access Week events at their institution, Goldsmiths University held a discussion titled ‘Open Access Monographs and Publishing Models: collaborative ways forward’….
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) have released a statement in support of open access and are asking for support from universities, libraries, researchers,…
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,…
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…