*** 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 […]
Category: Open Access
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. […]
Stirling to join Royal Society Journals Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
From 1st January Stirling will be joining the Royal Society Journals ”Read and Publish” Agreement for 2021. This means in return for a one-off payment by the Library, Stirling authors will have free uncapped open access publishing in all the Royal Society journals: Biology Letters Interface Focus Journal of the Royal Society Interface Notes and […]
Stirling to join Brill Journals Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
From 1st January Stirling will be joining the two-year Brill ”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 350 Brill journals in the areas of: Humanities & Social Sciences, International Law & Human Rights and Biology. […]
Stirling to join Company of Biologists Publishing Agreement: free Open Access Publishing
From 1st January Stirling will be joining the one-year Company of Biologists ”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 Company of Biologists three hybrid journals: Development Journal of Cell Science Journal of Experimental Biology Open access publication is […]
Stirling to join Public Library of Science Community Action Publishing: free Open Access publishing
From 1st January Stirling will be joining the three-year ‘Public Library of Science’ JISC negotiated Community Action Publishing Agreement. The Agreement enables free uncapped open access publishing for our authors in two highly selective journals: PLOS Biology PLOS Medicine Alongside our previous announcement about joining the PLOS Flat Tier Agreement, this now means Stirling authors […]