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…
Open Access Week 2017 has been busy, everywhere. This year's theme "Your Open Access: In order to …" has been about going beyond enabling OA and the team has continued engaging with many active researchers, learning…
Wellcome Trust has had an Open Access policy for its research publications since 2005, and now leads the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF). Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services at Wellcome, has announced that from 1…
Following the Burgess Review of Research Councils UK Open Access Policy and RCUK’s response, this report considers the wider…
To mark St Andrew's Day 2015 the Open Access Support team is pleased to publish a guest post by Janet Aucock, Head of Metadata and Content Acquisition. St Andrew's Day is a good day to reflect on Scottish influences on…
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)…
As expected the Research Councils UK Executive has responded to the independent Burgess Review of its Open Access policy that we blogged in April. The Executive accepts and will act on all the recommendations. Its…
You might not necessarily associate China with Open Access, but it has made rapid progress towards making more of its research publications open. Two powerful public agencies are instigating Open Access into Chinese…
"That’s why I filed the paper into PURE – the system does a great job of making materials widely visible." Dr Philip Roscoe, Reader, School of Management PURE and Research@StAndrews:FullText have served as the…
Following the post on our 5000th item readers might be interested in some deposits into Research@StAndrews:FullText occurring at the same time that stand out for various reasons in terms of their publication paths: REF…