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 →

University of Edinburgh 2016/17 Gold open access spend analysis TAGS: open access The University of Edinburgh receives two main block grants from Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) to support researchers funded by them to comply with their …Continue reading →

20,000th item in the Edinburgh Research Archive TAGS: ERA | open access | PhD We are delighted to announce the deposit of the 20,000th item into our institutional repository the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). ERA is a digital repository of original research which contains …Continue reading →

APCs paid in the wild TAGS: APCs | gold | open access As part of the Lessons in Open Access Compliance for Higher Education (LOCH) project we have been looking at the problems of identifying Article Processing Charges (APCs) that the Library is …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 →

A new themed double-issue of The Unfamiliar published online TAGS: journals | Library as publisher | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems | publishing We are delighted to announce that an exciting new double-issue of the student-led open-access journal The Unfamiliar: an anthropological journal, Volume 5 (1-2), “Humans and the Environment / Walking Threads”, …Continue reading →

Open access journal showcasing undergraduate research publishes second issue TAGS: Library as publisher | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems A journal dedicated to featuring top undergraduate research has published its second issue today. ‘Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation’ is an online, open access journal for …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 →

Open Book Publishers Library Membership TAGS: e-books | Humanities | open access | Social Sciences The Library has recently taken out membership to Open Book Publishers (OBP).  OBP are an open access publisher, primarily for humanities and social sciences but now expanding into other disciplines.  …Continue reading →

PURE Validation Training TAGS: open access | PURE | REF Here at the University of Edinburgh we are gearing up for the implementation of the new REF Open Access requirements, and we are starting to trial new workflows.  My colleagues …Continue reading →