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 …
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Open Access Week 2019 – Friday – Where do we go from here?
At this point we have looked at the beginnings of open access, what it means now and the various reactions surrounding it, but now we will look at what we can expect for the immediate …
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Although open access has become more mainstream since its inception as demonstrated from our “Modern Open Access” post, it didn’t do so undetected. Inevitably both the public and publishers found out about open access and …
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Moving on from our last post “The Adventure Begins”, we can see that at the time, open access was only just starting to be introduced. The methods of publishing were varied and there was no …
Continue readingOpen Access Week 2019 – Tuesday – The Adventure Begins!
As we have seen in our previous post “The Time Before Open Access”, Panizzi was able to achieve much of his ambition over the course of the 19th century. He was able to gather a …
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Open Access is the term used to describe a piece of research that has been published with no barriers to access and reuse, typically accompanied with a Creative Commons licence stating what the research can …
Continue readingOpen Access Week – Finding and using OA resources
All this week we have been talking about Open Access and the benefits of sharing your work – but there is one more benefit for you! The fact that everyone else is making work Open …
Continue readingOpen Access Week – #ThesisThursday!
Welcome to #ThesisThursday, an event being held as part of Open Access Week, led by the British Library. Follow @EthosBL today or the hashtag #ThesisThursday to see what is going on! Last year the University …
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Did you know that open access articles attract more citations than those published in subscription journals? Between 2004 and 2015 SPARC collected a body of research evidence demonstrating the Open Access Citation Advantage. A study …
Continue readingOpen Access Week – How are we doing?
GALA vital statistics: how do your papers rate? Nearly 1,200 papers have already been uploaded this year, adding to over 14,000 records that have been created since GALA was launched in 2009! Since 2009, items …
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