by crauter | Mar 14, 2019 | Open Access, Open Research, Publishing, Research News
We were interested to spot this new preprint by Professor Tom Crick et al, discussing the ten myths around Open Scholarship publishing. The paper, which is open for comment, delves into the evolving framework and core issues surrounding Open Research, Open Science and...
by crauter | Dec 10, 2018 | Open Access, ORCID
It’s nearly the end of a busy year for the Library Research Support Team. There is an overview of our activities on our web page (specifically our Team Remit) but the bulk of our work is in the area of open access: supporting researchers in meeting the...
by crauter | Nov 28, 2018 | Open Access
Most journal copyright policies permit the self-archiving of the accepted manuscript (or post-print). This is the final author version of a paper and we get many queries about identifying and obtaining this version. A new resource from Open Access Button promises to...
by crauter | Nov 12, 2018 | Open Access, Publishing, Research News
On Monday 12th November 2018, IJPDS is changing the publishing licence from the current Creative Commons CC-BY-ND to CC-BY The International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS) is an electronic, open-access, peer-reviewed journal focussing on the...
by crauter | Nov 6, 2018 | Open Access, Research News
Wellcome Trust have just updated their open access policy which will last until Jan 2020. Although Swansea does not have a large number of Wellcome funded academics this is an interesting development as it follows a big review and is an attempt to work within the Plan...
by crauter | Oct 25, 2018 | Open Access, Research News, Theses
Today is #ThesisThursday on Twitter, part of the activities celebrating International Open Access Week. We asked our guest blogger Julia Terry to tell us about her recently completed Swansea University PhD. What was the most important or overarching finding of your...
