UK universities and Elsevier have agreed a three-year Read & Publish deal to support the transition to Open Access for UK Research. This agreement provides both continued ‘read’ access to, and unlimited open access publishing in, Elsevier’s subscription journals. Stirling authors will be able to choose to publish open access at no additional cost to […]
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Stirling joins JMIR Publications Agreement: free Open Access Publishing for our authors
Stirling has joined the JMIR Publications Open Access Deal until end of February 2023. Stirling authors will have free uncapped open access publishing in all JMIR journals – covering fully Open Access journals broadly in the field of digital health research. Including titles such as: JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research); JMIR Public Health and Surveillance; JMIR […]
LibrarySearch now flags retracted articles
You may not realise (but probably guessed) that sometimes journal articles may be retracted because they include either accidental or deliberate errors. The retraction could be due to incorrect experimental or interpretive errors and is to prevent readers from being misled and protects researchers from wasting time and resources by attempting to replicate or utilise […]
New UKRI Open Access Policy – starts 1st April
The new UKRI Open Access policy starts on 1st April. If you will be submitting manuscripts for publication that acknowledge any of the UKRI funding councils, the policy will apply. You will need to check the journal you are submitting to before you submit to ensure you are choosing a compliant route. The policy applies […]
Webinar on How to Comply with the new UKRI Open Access Policy
Betsy Fuller, our Repositories Librarian, will be presenting a webinar on the new UKRI Open Access Policy: Title: How to Comply with the new UKRI Open Access PolicyDate: Wednesday 30th March 2022Time: 10-11amLocation: MS Teams This session is for all research staff and students with funding from UKRI councils (AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK, MRC, […]
UK Data Service: introductory online training series Spring 2022
The UK Data Service is the UK’s largest collection of UK and international social, economic and population data. They provide free access to a wide range of social science data for reuse. The Service contains thousands of data collections, including UK census data, government funded surveys, longitudinal studies, international macrodata, qualitative data, and business microdata. […]
Stirling joins John Benjamins Agreement: free Open Access Publishing for our authors
Stirling has joined the John Benjamins Read & Publish Agreement for 2022. This means in return for a one-off payment by the Library, Stirling authors will have free uncapped open access publishing in all John Benjamins journals – covering journals broadly in the field of linguistics. See the full list of journals. Open access publication is free […]
Stirling joins BMJ Publishing Agreement: free Open Access Publishing for our authors
Stirling has joined the BMJ Publishing ”Publish and Read” Agreement for 2022. This means in return for a one-off payment by the Library, Stirling authors will have free uncapped open access publishing in most BMJ journals covering a broad selection of health and medical specialities. See the full list of journals. Open access publication is free […]
New Library Links from Google Scholar direct to Stirling’s full-text articles
You can now set up Google Scholar so that it links seamlessly to LibrarySearch and the full-text of journal articles that Stirling University Library subscribes to. To setup your Google Scholar Library Links for Stirling’s LibrarySearch: First login to your Google/Google scholar account so that these settings will be retained, then: 1. In Google Scholar click the three horizontal bars in […]
Free webinar for researchers: ‘How to get your research noticed’
Register for this free webinar on ‘How to get your research noticed’ on Thursday 4th November 2021, 4pm Register Now The webinar is just half an hour, with time for Q&As at the end, and you will be given some tips on how to get your research noticed, helping it become more discoverable and increasing […]