Edinburgh Research Explorer Statistics: July 2019 TAGS: downloads | Edinburgh Research Explorer | green open access | July 2019 | open access | repository | Scholarly Communications

Edinburgh Research Explorer | ER-data: Jan. – June 2019 TAGS: Edinburgh Research Explorer | green open access | June 2019 | open access | repository | Scholarly Communications Edinburgh Research Explorer • www.research.ed.ac.uk • ERdata: Jan. – June 2019 The first six-months of 2019, as now seems inevitable, have proved to be the busiest six-months in Edinburgh Research Explorer’s brief history, …Continue reading →

Open Access update TAGS: open access | Plan S | RCUK The University of Edinburgh is a strong supporter of open access (OA), and in 2018, researchers at Edinburgh published over 7,000 peer reviewed research outputs, of which over 5,181 (74%) …Continue reading →

Academic-led publishing TAGS: open access Our last #openaccess week blog post finished with the observation that publishers are increasingly becoming in control of scholarly infrastructure, and that it is now more important than ever for …Continue reading →

Green open access and REF compliance TAGS: open access Yesterday’s blog post suggested that our reliance on Hybrid Gold Open Access to meet research funder’s open access requirements was too expensive and libraries should be supporting alternative pathways. In …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh 2016/17 Gold open access spend analysis TAGS: open access The University of Edinburgh receives two main block grants from Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) to support researchers funded by them to comply with their …Continue reading →

20,000th item in the Edinburgh Research Archive TAGS: ERA | open access | PhD We are delighted to announce the deposit of the 20,000th item into our institutional repository the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). ERA is a digital repository of original research which contains …Continue reading →

APCs paid in the wild TAGS: APCs | gold | open access As part of the Lessons in Open Access Compliance for Higher Education (LOCH) project we have been looking at the problems of identifying Article Processing Charges (APCs) that the Library is …Continue reading →

Current UK Open Access Issues TAGS: open access I’ve been looking at my notes from Monday’s workshop discussion looking at some of the current non-systems-specific issues facing OA practitioners in the UK at the moment.  I’ve summarised the key …Continue reading →

A new themed double-issue of The Unfamiliar published online TAGS: journals | Library as publisher | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems | publishing We are delighted to announce that an exciting new double-issue of the student-led open-access journal The Unfamiliar: an anthropological journal, Volume 5 (1-2), “Humans and the Environment / Walking Threads”, …Continue reading →