Copyright waffle and the illusion of choice. TAGS: copyright | open access | post-2014 REF An academic colleague of mine recently had an article accepted for publication in a journal. As usual they were emailed by the publisher who asked them to sign an Author Publishing …Continue reading →

10,000th open access item added to the Edinburgh Research Archive Thanks to a major digitisation project being undertaken by Library & University Collections we are proud to announce our 10,000th open access item has recently been deposited in the Edinburgh …Continue reading →

Hybrid open access revenue Photo courtesy of Images_of_Money Over the last few weeks I’ve been preparing and reviewing various compliance and financial reports for funding agencies on their annual open access block grants awarded to our …Continue reading →

Oldest thesis record in the British Library’s e-thesis online service (EThOS) TAGS: Thomas Charles Hope Over the last few weeks and months we’ve been adding a lot of digitised material from our historical collections to the Edinburgh Research Archive. One of the collections that has …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Archive : a new look TAGS: dspace | edinburgh research archive | mirage 2 | repository We are pleased to announce a new look and feel to the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). Over the past few weeks our Library Digital Development team have been busy upgrading …Continue reading →

UKSG October webinar: The University Library as publisher. Can you? Should you? This webinar was held on Wednesday 29 October 2014 and was jointly presented by colleagues from the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh. The idea of the webinar was to …Continue reading →

Three different traits of open access publishers TAGS: article processing charges | open access | RCUK This week I’ve been compiling some data for the next meeting of the RLUK Ethical and Effective Publishing Working Group. Some of the data itself is pretty interesting so I …Continue reading →

Subject disciplines & download figures TAGS: downloads | open access One line summary Disciplines without dedicated subject repositories seem to provide the most popular items downloaded from our institutional service. The general trend Whilst looking at the top 99 most …Continue reading →

2014 download statistics from research.ed.ac.uk TAGS: downloads | open access As well as reporting on the number of open access uploads to our institutional repository we now have the facility to report on the other end of the spectrum – …Continue reading →

Researchers – what’s new for you from the Library TAGS: open access | post-2014 REF “Researchers – what’s new for you from the Library” is an event being held in the Murray Library at the King’s Buildings to highlight some recent developments in Library services …Continue reading →