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 →

Open Access week: 23-29th October For Open Access week we have a series of blog posts lined up to be published every day. We’ll start by describing the current state of play of open access …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh Further Supports Open Library of Humanities   The University of Edinburgh has opted to support the Open Library of Humanities at a higher rate than required. This additional support will enable the OLH to continue its …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 →

Managing publisher’s open access memberships with Trello TAGS: open access memberships | trello As more and more publishers have started to offer open access institutional memberships we have started to struggle with the effective management of the various schemes. We are currently signed up to …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Archive access stats: Q1 2016 TAGS: ERA Image: Bass valve trumpet. Nominal pitch: 8-ft C  (CC-BY from the MIMEd collection) Not one to blow our own trumpets too often, I’m pleased to report that during the first three …Continue reading →

Fake invoice warning TAGS: keylogger | malware | MS Word | virus Here is a quick blog post to warn you of targeted attempts to distribute malware by unknown and hostile persons. Over the last few weeks we have been sent numerous …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 →

ORCID is turning into the Yellow Pages TAGS: monkeys | ORCID As pointed out to me a number of times the use of ORCID.org IDs is rapidly growing: Oct 16, 2012: 0 Nov 21, 2014: 1,011,557 March 4, 2016: 2,014,645 (stats …Continue reading →

Some thoughts on the impact of Sci-Hub Sci-Hub has been getting a lot of attention recently – for those of you not up to date there are some really good pieces written here: What should we think …Continue reading →