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Guidance for researchers on funder mandates

As part of our Open Access Week initiatives, we are launching new web pages to support our researchers. We have created a guide to the open access policies of major research funders to ensure that you are fully…

Supporting Open Access initiatives

Open Access Week 2011 is a global event now in its 5th year, promoting open access as a new norm in scholarly communication. To mark the event, which runs from 24 – 30 Oct 2011, the Library would like to share some of…

New approach to mandating open access

A world-renowned University introduces a new development on the path towards open access, and aims to put pressure on publishers. Princeton University has introduced a new policy that requires their researchers to…

Publishers acting as barriers to research

In a recent piece in the Guardian, George Monbiat took on academic publishers and the business models that prevent access for many to scholarly publications. Ben Goldacre takes up the story a few days later in similar…

Increasing access to outputs of publicly funded research

Science minister David Willetts has announced that the UK Government is setting up an independent working group to look at how UK-funded research findings can be made more widely available. This follows the…

Extending the open access debate at Repository Fringe

Another interesting and stimulating Repository Fringe was held in Edinburgh last week, coinciding as usual with the start of the Edinburgh Festivals and held right in the heart of the Fringe action. The theme was…

Recent St Andrews open access ebook highly accessed

The latest open access ebook in the St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture series is in the Top 3 most viewed items from Research@StAndrews:FullText for the last month. Proven patriots”: the French diplomatic…

‘Explosion of openness’ with Creative Commons

There are now more than 400 million works available on the internet under Creative Commons licences – allowing resources such as artworks, literature, films, learning materials and research articles to be shared and…

New opportunities for open access publishing

In April I noted the recent announcements from major publishers about new open access journals. This trend continues with notable transitions to open access business models as well as completely new journals offering…

Open Access promotes Polar Research

The move of the journal Polar Research to an open access publisher has allowed us to highlight the results of a long-term survey in the Arctic. St Andrews researchers Tiago Marques and David Borchers are co-authors of:…
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