The story behind the journal: Medicine Anthropology Theory TAGS: Diamond Open Access | Library publishing | open access The DOAJ has recently been celebrating 20 years of service. As part of their celebrations they have been interviewing editors from some of the journals they index. We are thrilled …Continue reading →

Launch of a New Open Access Journals Toolkit by Rebecca Wojturska, Open Access Publishing Officer, The University of Edinburgh On Tuesday 27th June, the OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) announced …Continue reading →

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 →