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 …
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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 …
Continue readingPlan 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 …
Continue readingThoughts 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 …
Continue readingReviewing 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 …
Continue readingDo 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 …
Continue readingGolden opportunities? Emerging opportunities to expand access to Gold open access (OA) publishing
The evolution of the OA policy landscape is showing no signs of rest. With the implementation of plan S just months away, many of the legacy academic and scholarly publishers are busy amending their agreements …
Continue readingOpen 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 …
Continue readingOpen Access Week 2019 – Thursday – Reactions Around the World
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 …
Continue readingOpen Access Week 2019 – Wednesday – Defining Modern Open Access
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 …
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