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 →

University of Edinburgh joins IIIF Consortium as a Founding Member The University of Edinburgh has joined the International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium (IIIF) as Founding Members. On Tuesday 26th April, the formal agreement was signed between Gavin McLachlan, Chief Information …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 →

Current UK Open Access Issues TAGS: open access I’ve been looking at my notes from Monday’s workshop discussion looking at some of the current non-systems-specific issues facing OA practitioners in the UK at the moment.  I’ve summarised the key …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 →

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 →

Finding, managing, writing and sharing research – what tools do you use? Do you use Google Drive or Word? Mendeley or Endnote? Google Scholar or Scopus? Open access or traditional journals? ResearchGate or repositories? New tools are constantly being developed, as reflected …Continue reading →

OAI9 Last week I attended the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9) in Geneva, a workshop looking at developments in scholarly communication, it was a diverse programme and attracted …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 →

Risk Registers TAGS: open access | RCUK | REF | risk register Today, I added a number of risks related to Open Access to the University’s Information Services Group Risk Register.  The risks were around loss/reduction of funding for Open Access and …Continue reading →