Recently (well not that recently actually!) BioMed Central Ecology announced the winners of the 2017 image competition. This year 32 images made the cut to be mentioned in the editorial piece here -…
As a primer to this month's event, detailed here is a recent blog post, we thought it would be a good idea to share an interview with Aileen Fyfe originally posted on the PLOS BLOGS Network in April 2016. In the…
In this post we look behind the scenes into how we capture publications in order to achieve Open Access... Celebratory tiramisu Yes, the pudding is correct, we now have over 50,000 publications records in Pure! At the…
[The following was originally published on the UKCoRR blog as guest post, here: http://ukcorr.org/2017/08/22/requesting-permission-reflections-and-perspectives-from-the-university-of-st-andrews/] In July I attended the…
The University of St Andrews has joined 50 other institutions in supporting Knowledge Unlatched for it's 2017 pledging period. Knowledge Unlatched is a novel crowd-funding initiative that aims to reduce the individual…
This week we reached another milestone - 10,000 items in the University of St Andrews Research Repository (or StARR for short if you prefer). That's 10,000 full-texts of research publications, theses and other content…
The academic publisher Brill has announced that it has now published 20 fully open access books funded under the Knowledge Unlatched scheme. The scheme's vision is to create a sustainable and fair business model to…
Digital Research Open OfficeEvery Wednesday2-4pm The Library's Digital Research division now has an open office every Wednesday afternoon. From 2pm to 4pm anyone can drop in and see us, and we will ensure there will be…
Image Courtesy of Google Maps Recently the Library's Digital Research Division moved building from the University Library to just down the road. We are now in the Old Union Diner (not to be confused with the Old Union…
A new EU Horizon 2020 project has been announced, entitled High Integration of Research Monographs in the European Open Science infrastructure, or HIRMEOS for short. We've written on this blog numerous times about open…