On the 4th of September a radical initiative was unveiled that plans to make publicly funded research in 11 European countries, including the UK, accessible for free by 2020. The initiative is built around ‘Plan S’, which consists of one target and 10 principles (shown below). The core target is: “By 2020 scientific publications […]
Category: Open Access
Unpaywall for open research: plans for Scopus integration
Described as a “ground-breaking development” towards achieving a true open research infrastructure, Unpaywall is a database listing almost 20 million freely available scholarly articles. This free service locates open-access articles and presents paywalled papers that have been legally archived and are freely available on other websites to users who might otherwise have hit a paywalled […]
Unpaywall: find free, legal, Open Access articles
Wouldn’t it be handy if you could quickly check if there’s a free version of a paper when the library doesn’t have access? Well, now you can – using the super-smart ‘Unpaywall’ tool. Unpaywall is an extension to your web browser that finds free versions of otherwise paywalled papers from a database of about 10 […]
Open Access week 23 – 29 October 2017
The theme of this year’s Open Access week is “what are the benefits of making scholarly outputs openly available”. Although the benefits of Open Access publishing are numerous, one crucial benefit is eligibility for the next REF exercise. In the UK in order to be eligible for submission to REF 2021 the following conditions […]
The British Psychological Society (BPS) are waiving APCs for their members
All of our authors with a BPS membership can have free Gold Open Access when they publish in the following journals published by Wiley. This means you will not be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) British Journal of Clinical Psychology British Journal of Developmental Psychology British Journal of Educational Psychology British Journal of Health […]
Open research practices
The results of a survey of Wellcome researchers to find out what they think about open research, how they practice it, and some of the barriers they face have just been published in a report. This work was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust and conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and […]
Open Access: Publisher memberships
Publisher memberships The University currently provides a fund of £250k to spend on Open Access: publisher memberships, APC and publication costs. To apply to the APC fund you need to fulfil eligibility criteria – see here for further information and the application form. Many publishers now offer discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs), so […]
Our favourite Open Access films
If you want to learn more about Open Access these are our favourite short films explains what Open Access is and what Licences are. “What is Open Access” “Creative Commons: a shared culture” Don’t forget we have loads of information on our web pages at http://www.stir.ac.uk/is/researchers/writing/publishingimpact/open-access/ JISC – Open Access hour: live Twitter […]
Not only is it reading week this week, but it is also Open Access week!
We are planning a series of posts throughout the week so here’s one on what OPENAIRE are planning to do this week: OpenAIRE webinars As OA week is a truly international event, OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) has scheduled a full week of webinars on various exciting Open Science topics. During the […]
Reminder about REF Compliance for your Publications
In order for papers to be returnable for the next REF, if you have a peer-reviewed journal article, systematic review, or conference paper in formal publication that was accepted for publication after 1st April 2016, the Author’s Accepted Manuscript must be deposited into STORRE via RMS within 3 months of acceptance. Guidance is available here. […]