Think, Check, Submit is a cross-industry initiative designed to help researchers choose the best place to publish their work. It has the support of major publishers such as Springer Nature and BioMed Central, and also…
Luminos is an open access book publishing program run by The University of California Press. At the time of writing there are 6 open access books available, with more on the way. We mentioned the announcement of the…
Following on from our recent post on Outernet two recent announcements about new research publication platforms have attracted attention in the Open Access community: Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO)…
Copyright Wellcome Trust CC BY 2.0 Copyright Research Information Network A Wellcome Trust commissioned report centred around the issue of peer review was published last month. The report, conducted by the Research…
"Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where, you've never been." David T. W. McCord With this post we want to highlight the importance of open access books. When people think of open access, their minds might…
This week the Open Access team archived the first two issues of the Scottish Journal of Performance (SJoP). SJoP is a peer-reviewed postgraduate-led Open Access journal published by The Royal Conservatoire of…
To our enduring frustration, much of the academic publishing process is hidden from view unless of course you are having a paper published. At first thought this makes perfect sense, especially as an information…
Tomasz is a frequent depositor in our research information system, Pure and, as an author of foreign language publications, often helps Library staff interpret their copyright. In the last of our blogs to mark 4000…
Recently the Open Access and Repository Service Support Team has compiled information on APC spending. APC stands for Article Processing Charge, and this is the charge that applies for Gold open access publishing. In…
The Knowledge Unlatched team are delighted to inform us that they have reached (and exceeded) the target of 200 libraries joining their pilot project to share the costs of ‘unlatching’ a collection 28 front-list…