A longitudinal data journey
The first in our series of posts to mark Love Data Week 2018 comes from Dr Fiona Cox, Research Fellow in the School of Geography & Sustainable Development. We asked Fiona about her data journey: What type or types of…
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Love Data Week 2018
Happy Love Data Week! This week, we are planning to mark Love Data week 2018 (http://lovedataweek.org/) by publishing a number of blog posts about data and data management in St Andrews. Watch this space to hear about…
New open access book published: Module theory: an approach to linear algebra
Earlier this week we published an open access book via the repository - Module theory: an approach to linear algebra. The book is authored by Emeritus Professor Thomas Blyth. Professor Blyth started at the University…
The transition to Open Access: financial implications
In our last post we discussed the headline figures disclosed in a recent report by Universities UK on the transition to Open Access. The post paid particular attention to download figures for open access content which…
Your Open Access: January update
We have just published the January repository statistics update. Since the last update, published in October, the repository content has continued to grow, and we now have over 11,000 items. The downloads have remained…
The transition to Open Access: how's it going?
A report has been published recently detailing statistics on the transition to Open Access. The report, which can be downloaded here, was published by Universities UK, a body representing the interests of UK…
Repository reaches 11000 items in record time
Five months since we announced the 10,000th item in the St Andrews Research Repository the team is amazed to already be reporting the 11,000th milestone has been reached, just in time for Christmas. The item is a…
Free stuff for academic software developers
It’s Black Friday, which seems as good a time as any to flag up a couple of year-round discounts available to academics who write code as part of their work.
FP7 Post Grant Open Access Pilot
There are only three months left to claim funding for Open Access via the European Commission's Post Grant Pilot scheme. A total of €4 million have been allocated to the Pilot, designed to support open access…
REF2021 decisions continue drive for open access
Following a process of consultation. the four UK funding bodies have published their decisions on several areas of the Research Excellence Framework (REF2021). The document provides guidance on staff, outputs, UoA…