We’ve reached another milestone! We now have over 5000 items in the repository, with a variety of research outputs including theses, reports, books, chapters, journal articles completely free and available for anyone…
We have previously blogged about the innovative PeerJ Open Access publisher specialising in biomedical science. Responding to community requests, the folks at PeerJ are launching PeerJ Computer Science to bring…
Copyright © The British Library Board The British Library EThOS service has started a Share My Thesis competition (in collaboration with Vitae and Research Councils UK). How to enter: Entry for the competition is…
The University Library is delighted to announce St Andrews participation in the Institute of Physics 3-year pilot offsetting Open Access costs against Library journal subscriptions. This means that in the long term…
The results for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) are due in this week, but work is already well under way to prepare for the next one! What is the REF? The REF is a system for assessing the quality and…
"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…
Nature Publishing Group has announced today that research papers in Nature, and other journals published by NPG, will be free_to_read via links that can be shared by subscribers. Using these special links, content…
The SPARC Europe road show in Lower College Hall 26 November was a great success attracting interested University staff and students from St Andrews and beyond. It was good to see a number of postgraduate students…
Digitising theses and making them available free of charge over the internet has been one of the great successes of Open Access that is often forgotten. The British Library Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS)…
The Access to Understanding 2015 science writing competition has been announced. Now in its third year, the aim of the competition is to promote public understanding of complex research in Biomedical Science. If you…