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 →

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 →

University of Edinburgh’s Yr 1 RCUK Compliance Report Complete TAGS: open access | RCUK The Scholarly Communications Team at Edinburgh University Library have just submitted their end-of-year-one report to RCUK.  This details how “compliant” we think we are with RCUK’s Open Access policy.  We …Continue reading →

Open Access in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine TAGS: "open access" "article processing fees" | gold open access | green open access | open access | RCUK | Wellcome Trust My name is Anna Krzak, and I am an Open Access Research Publications Administrator for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. I have been …Continue reading →

Three different traits of open access publishers TAGS: article processing charges | open access | RCUK This week I’ve been compiling some data for the next meeting of the RLUK Ethical and Effective Publishing Working Group. Some of the data itself is pretty interesting so I …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh Open Access update: April 2014 TAGS: article processing charges | open access | RCUK Green Open Access As of 30th April there are approximately 78,340 records in our Current Research Information System (PURE), of which 18,321 have open access documents available to the general …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh Open Access update: Feb 2014 TAGS: article processing charges | open access | PURE | RCUK | Wellcome Trust As of 27th Jan there are approximately 75,700 records in our Current Research Information System (PURE), of which 15,486 have open access documents available to the general public (20% open …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh Open Access update: Jan 2014 TAGS: "open access" "article processing fees" | RCUK | Wellcome Trust To restart the Open Scholarship blog for 2014 we are publishing a monthly series of posts detailing the open access activity that the Scholarly Communications Team is helping to facilitate …Continue reading →