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Transformative Agreements and affiliation with the university
As you will be aware from a number of communications and sessions, the university currently participates in several Transformative Agreements (TAs) with major scholarly publishers including Springer Nature, Wiley, SAGE, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University …
London Open Research Week
A group of London-based peers working in the areas of scholarly communication, research data management, librarianship, publishing, and institutional repositories decided to collaborate across institutional boundaries for London Open Research Week 2021: having experienced frustrations with the fractures and divides across the topologies of openness, we have worked together to try and forge a broad event for practitioners and research …
Policies and the future of ‘open access’ for the University of Greenwich
With the ghosts of REF 2021 circling over the audit processes, there are some new hauntings waiting in the wings… On Friday 6th August 2021, UKRI finally released their long anticipated open access (OA) policy. …
Plan S
Plan S is an international and collaborative initiative that aims to to achieve full and immediate open access, based around a series of principles. “With effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from …
Open accessory to compliance: the current state of open access at the university
For many years, the university has been actively supporting the general migration towards open access to scholarly research outputs and data. Recent history The main mechanism for making work produced by Greenwich scholars has been …
REF 2021: exceptions to the open access compliance requirements
Guest post by Alexander Carter With the REF 2021 fast approaching and the various delays caused by COVID-19, academics may find that some of their in-scope GALA deposits may appear non-compliant with REF 2021’s open …
Thoughts for 2020 Open Access Week
In recent years, the dramatic growth of open access to the literature has quite reasonably been hailed as a major success, which it most certainly has been in these terms. It is difficult to deny …
Reviewing our conveyance of academic outputs in GALA
As part of our ongoing review of processes around GALA, we have decided to try and make better use of some of the features of the software. We hope that a minor change to our existing review …
Shining a light on the importance of publication metadata
Describing value Publication metadata is seldom conceived as area of wonder and excitement. However, publication metadata is of enormous value and it cannot be underestimated as metadata helps to describe resources in structured and defined …
Do you open or close the doors to your research?
In the context of a global pandemic, it may seem like focusing on licensing is an inappropriate and administrative fixation, far removed from the priority list of researchers and academics attempting to conduct their business under difficult conditions. Following on from our introduction to the emerging Gold open access …