8000th full text item added to the Edinburgh Research Archive TAGS: Internship | open access To round off the week we’re delighted to have just archived our 8000th full text item in the Edinburgh Research Archive. The item to receive this prestigious accolade is a …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh Open Access update: April 2014 TAGS: article processing charges | open access | RCUK Green Open Access As of 30th April there are approximately 78,340 records in our Current Research Information System (PURE), of which 18,321 have open access documents available to the general …Continue reading →

Confusing Green Open Access policies Elsevier’s Green Open Access policy on self-archiving is so confusing even the Elsevier Customer Service department don’t know what it is. A few weeks ago one of my colleagues was …Continue reading →

International Earth Day TAGS: open access | PhD | world earth day Tuesday 22nd April has been designated by the UN as International Mother Earth Day. It is a day of action where people from all over the planet do something on behalf of …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh Open Access update: March 2014 TAGS: "open access" "article processing fees" As of 31st March there are approximately 76,800 records in our Current Research Information System (PURE), of which 16,795 have open access documents available to the general public (22% open …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh Open Access update: Feb 2014 TAGS: article processing charges | open access | PURE | RCUK | Wellcome Trust As of 27th Jan there are approximately 75,700 records in our Current Research Information System (PURE), of which 15,486 have open access documents available to the general public (20% open …Continue reading →

Access To Research – A Public Library Initiative TAGS: finch report | open access | public library [This post first appeared online at The Informed Blog and is re-posted here with their kind permission. Since it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license it doesn’t …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh Open Access update: Jan 2014 TAGS: "open access" "article processing fees" | RCUK | Wellcome Trust To restart the Open Scholarship blog for 2014 we are publishing a monthly series of posts detailing the open access activity that the Scholarly Communications Team is helping to facilitate …Continue reading →

The Edinburgh Research Archive is 10 years old! TAGS: edinburgh research archive | open access It may seem strange but back in 2003 Open Access was a relatively new ‘thing’. Prior to 2003 many people still used the term Free Online Scholarship interchangeably with Open …Continue reading →

Open Access milestone: 10,000th deposit TAGS: open access We are delighted to announce that this month we have deposited the 10,000th open access article in our Current Research Information System (PURE). All this content is made publicly available …Continue reading →