by crauter | Dec 11, 2017 | Library Resources for Research, Research News
Those of you who use Web of Science for your research may be interested in the following developments: There will be changes in the way open access is flagged up to distinguish gold final versions from green ones. Also they will be marking hybrid open access papers...
by crauter | Dec 1, 2017 | Metrics, Research News
HEFCE’s “Forum for the Responsible Use of Metrics” currently have open a survey for institutions (one response per institution is required) to find out how institutions are implementing policies on the responsible use of metrics: Responses will be...
by crauter | Nov 24, 2017 | Open Access, REF
HEFCE announced further clarification on the rules for REF2021 yesterday (PDF here) and this included some decisions on outputs and open access (on p.8). Key points are: The policy is felt to be working in that more papers than ever before have been made open access....
by crauter | Oct 26, 2017 | Open Access, Research News
Many of you will have heard of Bloodhound SSC, a car built to break the landspeed record but also with the aim of interesting young people in STEM subjects. By Katie Chan – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47617502 This...
by crauter | Oct 23, 2017 | Research News
Open Access Week 2017 runs from 23-29th October. Swansea University is taking the opportunity to celebrate the excellent work being done by all our researchers to make ever-increasing numbers of publications open access, free for the world to download on our...
