Open Access Week is here!
CC-BY. Openaccessweek.org Open Access Week is upon us once again! Over the next week we will be sharing the latest news from the world of Open Access, including competitions, new technologies, and future events. So,…
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Taylor & Francis APC Competition
Good news, we have a competition to share! For the past 2 years Taylor & Francis have conducted a worldwide survey of journal authors' views on Open Access (you can read more about the survey results in a previous blog…
Elsevier: a look inside a publishing leviathan
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…
Shelter report exposes housing situation in UK
In a previous blog post we highlighted a recent report studying the housing situation in St Andrews. We have now archived a new study commissioned by Shelter, and conducted by the University of St Andrews, which…
Major Nature journal to go fully Open Access
Nature Communications is to become a fully open access journal. Until this time Nature Publishing Group has only published hybrid journals under the Nature branding. To recap: hybrid journals offer a choice between…
New PLOS account makes Open Access easier and faster
One of the common problems we hear about in the Open Access team is the confusing payment systems employed by publishers. To tackle some of the complexity and time-consumption associated with payments we have entered…
Charity alliance launches open access fund
An alliance of charities including Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK has launched a fund to make charitably funded research immediately free to access and re-use. The Head of Digital…
4000 items milestone: Featured researcher: Dr Tomasz Kamusella, School of History
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…
Affordable Housing in St Andrews: a Pervasive Issue
The lack of affordable housing in St Andrews has long been a topic of heated debate. To try and tackle this problem, a number of local organisations came together and formed the St Andrews Town Commission on Housing.…
University of St Andrews APC data now available
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…