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Stirling joins PNAS Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
Stirling has joined the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences two-year transformational open access pilot agreement negotiated by JISC. The Agreement means that Stirling authors can publish Open Access in PNAS without paying page charges or an Open Access fee. Stirling students and staff will also have access to all PNAS content, dating back to 1915. […]
New Web of Science platform launched
The new Web of Science platform has been launched and is now available to Stirling students and staff. Web of Science is a multidisciplinary service for finding details of research articles and other publication types covering: sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It tracks around 1.9 billion cited references from over 171 million records. The […]
Journal Citation Reports 2021 release: now includes Arts & Humanities journals
This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is a very useful tool that lists Journal Impact Factors and other journal metrics. This release: 70% more content – partly due to inclusion of journal titles from the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) New metric […]
Stirling joins Taylor & Francis Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
*** UPDATE TO POST BELOW 10th June 2021 *** Upon clarification of the terms from Taylor and Francis, we have now been able to lift our restriction below that the Agreement will only cover articles that have external funding. The Agreement can now be used for any research article with a Stirling corresponding author that […]
Stirling’s STORRE Included in New Repository of Scottish COVID-19 Research
Public Health Scotland has launched a Repository of Covid-19 research with the aim of bringing together and providing easy access to Scottish COVID-19 research on a single shared platform. The Repository contains research about COVID-19 in Scotland as well as research on COVID-19 undertaken by Scottish researchers. The Repository aggregates details of research publications from […]
Stirling joins Oxford University Press Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
Stirling is joining the first year of the three year Oxford University Press ”Read and Publish” Agreement negotiated by SHEDL. This means in return for a one-off payment by the Library, Stirling authors will have free uncapped open access publishing in OUP’s full collection of more than 400 academic journals. The OUP collection features prestigious, […]
University Research Committee Supports Plan S and Rights Retention Strategy
Plan S is an initiative to bring about full and immediate Open Access to journal articles that result from publicly funded original research. A key part of Plan S is the “Rights Retention Strategy” that aims to restore intellectual control of these publications to the authors themselves. At their 4th February meeting, the University Research […]
Plan S Implementation Begins: immediate Open Access for Wellcome funded articles
Plan S is a research funders’ initiative to bring about full and immediate Open Access to scholarly publications that result from publicly funded research. A number of research funders have become Plan S compliant from the 1st January, including The Wellcome Trust. The UKRI funders will be following in the second quarter of this year: […]
Stirling to join Cambridge University Press Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
From 1st January Stirling will be joining the four-year Cambridge University Press ”Read and Publish” Agreement. This means in return for a one-off payment by the Library, Stirling authors will have free uncapped open access publishing in more than 380 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. […]