Beginning of a new ERA TAGS: open access | PhD We are pleased to announce that the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) has recently had a lot of work done to improve it’s looks, add new functionality and clean up some …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Explorer Statistics: October 2019 TAGS: downloads | Edinburgh Research Explorer | green open access | October 2019 | open access | repository | Scholarly Communications

Edinburgh Research Explorer Statistics: September 2019 TAGS: downloads | Edinburgh Research Explorer | green open access | open access | repository | Scholarly Communications | September 2019

Edinburgh Research Explorer Statistics: August 2019 TAGS: August 2019 | downloads | Edinburgh Research Explorer | green open access | open access | repository | Scholarly Communications

Edinburgh Research Archive | ER-data: Jan. – June 2019 TAGS: edinburgh research archive | June 2019 | open access | repository | Scholarly Communications Edinburgh Research Archive • www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk • ERdata: Jan. – June 2019 The first half of 2019 saw the fifth highest total of downloads from ERA over a six-month period, unfortunately this is …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Explorer Statistics: July 2019 TAGS: downloads | Edinburgh Research Explorer | green open access | July 2019 | open access | repository | Scholarly Communications

Edinburgh Research Explorer | ER-data: Jan. – June 2019 TAGS: Edinburgh Research Explorer | green open access | June 2019 | open access | repository | Scholarly Communications Edinburgh Research Explorer • www.research.ed.ac.uk • ERdata: Jan. – June 2019 The first six-months of 2019, as now seems inevitable, have proved to be the busiest six-months in Edinburgh Research Explorer’s brief history, …Continue reading →

Open Access update TAGS: open access | Plan S | RCUK The University of Edinburgh is a strong supporter of open access (OA), and in 2018, researchers at Edinburgh published over 7,000 peer reviewed research outputs, of which over 5,181 (74%) …Continue reading →

Academic-led publishing TAGS: open access Our last #openaccess week blog post finished with the observation that publishers are increasingly becoming in control of scholarly infrastructure, and that it is now more important than ever for …Continue reading →

Green open access and REF compliance TAGS: open access Yesterday’s blog post suggested that our reliance on Hybrid Gold Open Access to meet research funder’s open access requirements was too expensive and libraries should be supporting alternative pathways. In …Continue reading →