Your Open Access – discovery
It might be Open, but can you find it? OA Button logo https://openaccessbutton.org/ The theme of this year’s Open Access Week ‘Open in order to…’ aims to recognise the concrete benefits of open access, encouraging…
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We now have over 50,000 research outputs in Pure!
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…
Reflections from an intern: research data, open access, and etheses
Earlier this year we welcomed a postgraduate student to the University Library to carry out an Erasmus internship. This guest blog post by Juan Mosquera Ramallo provides a flavour of his time spent working with…
DOI’s – what, where and why?
The DOI (Digital Object Identifier) website will tell you all you want to know, but here's a quick summary, in a Library context:what? - it's a system for identifying content objects in the digital environment. DOI…
Taming the Leviathan
Contributing to a blog named ‘Serendipity’ seems very appropriate today.
As I went into the archive stacks this morning, with my list of reference numbers, ready to find some correspondence between Sir D’Arcy…
The Repository: helping to feed the impact of research
Over the years, the OARPS team has spent a great deal of time acquiring academic manuscripts and releasing them to the world through the repository. Much of our current work involves assisting academics with complying…
New Open Access Button Launched
CC-BY 4.0 (Open Access Button) The new Open Access Button has landed! The Open Access Button project was started by a group of students who were frustrated by the paywalls they came up against when searching for…
Using doctoral theses in your research: a guide to EThOS
Do you want to find out how UK PhD theses can be accessed? Here is a quick reminder of a training webinar which is being organised by the EThOS team at the British Library: Using doctoral theses in your research: a…
Open Access Button – mapping paywalls
A new tool has been launched this week to raise awareness of open access and provide evidence for 'paywalls'. Now if you are asked for payment in exchange for access to a scholarly article you want to read, you can…
Celebrating Open Access @ St Andrews
We are always delighted at the wealth of content we discover through our open access services, and the insight we get on the amazing research going on in our academic community. To celebrate this, we have created a…