Some thoughts of the UKRI Open Access Policy on it’s 1st Birthday TAGS: open access | UKRI Do you think UKRI’s’ open access policy for journal articles has made a significant impact on the scholarly publishing landscape in the past year? How has the policy changed things …Continue reading →

Rights retention policy: an update after 9 months 2022 has been a big year for open access at the University of Edinburgh. We started the year off with a bang by introducing a revised Research Publications & Copyright …Continue reading →

The power of preprints: an omicron case study Much has been recently been written about the value of preprints which facilitate rapid and open dissemination of research findings to a global audience (if you’d like to read more …Continue reading →

Open Access Week: Meet the (Scholarly Communications) Team TAGS: open access | Open Access Week | Scholarly Communications Team Theo Andrew was one of the first supporters of Open Access at the University of Edinburgh. He started working with the University Library in 2003 on a couple of JISC …Continue reading →

Open Access Week: Download statistics TAGS: downloads | dspace | open access | repository

Introducing Edinburgh Diamond: Library-supported Open Access Books and Journals Library and University Collections currently offer a journal hosting service, free of charge to staff and students, which you may already be familiar with. Open Access Week is the perfect …Continue reading →

Unveiling the new Open Access policy at UoE For Open Access Week 2021 we are pleased to announce a brand new Research Publications & Copyright Policy that will make it even easier for researchers from the University of …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Archive: March 2021 TAGS: downloads | dspace | edinburgh research archive | ERA | March 2021 | open access | PhD | repository | Scholarly Communications Edinburgh Research Archive: March 2021 • https://era.ed.ac.uk March saw a record number of downloads for ERA, with a 10% increase on the previous best of May 2020 and a 27% increase …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Explorer: March 2021 TAGS: Edinburgh Research Explorer | March 2021 | open access | repository | Scholarly Communications Edinburgh Research Explorer: March 2021 • www.research.ed.ac.uk The dip in download numbers which seemed to inflict Research Explorer from the last quarter of 2019 onwards, due to some heavy-handed filtration implemented …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Downloads: December 2020 TAGS: December 2020 | downloads | dspace | edinburgh research archive | Edinburgh Research Explorer | ERA | open access | PhD | repository | Scholarly Communications Edinburgh Research Downloads: December 2020 • www.research.ed.ac.uk • www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk • Looking at how Edinburgh Research Explorer and ERA have performed over the last year. • Research Explorer hasn’t had the best of years, the …Continue reading →