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…
As previously reported, over the summer we conducted a survey on research data management practices at the University and we’ve been analysing the responses. Included in the survey were a few questions about software…
The results of our survey to gather feedback on current research data management practices at the University are in. The lucky winner of the £100 Amazon voucher was Aubrey Zerkle from the School of Geography and…
Well, it's that time of year when we get to post lots of nice pictures courtesy of the open access journal BMC Ecology. Each year BMC Ecology runs a photographic image competition to celebrate biodiversity and the…
Harvard University last week released an extensive 224 page literature review on subscription journals flipping to Open Access. The review's principal aim is to "disentangle different options", in order to "help…
Last week the St Andrews Research Repository reached a new milestone: 8000 items! The last major content milestone we celebrated was when we reached 5000 items, this was back in February 2015. The blog post we wrote…
Wellcome Open Research is a new initiative which allows researchers to publish their results faster and more transparently. The service is powered by F1000Research which is an innovative publishing platform that uses…
If you are planning to submit a Horizon2020 grant application and would like to know more about how to write a Data Management Plan, you may be interested in joining the webinar “How to write a Data Management Plan”…
About 30 people from across the University attended the Launch Event for the St Andrews Research Computing Network, hosted by the Library in the Lawrence Levy Studio in the Byre Theatre over lunchtime on 14th June. The…
LabArchives is an Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN), an online version of a paper notebook, and it offers: remote access search function across your notebook and files (by keywords, tags, date, etc.) ease of…