by crauter | Oct 19, 2018 | Open Access, REF
A key feature of the REF Open Access policy is that papers must be deposited in RIS within three months of acceptance for publication. We therefore need to record the date of acceptance in RIS for every journal articles (or serial conference proceedings paper) so that...
by crauter | Sep 17, 2018 | Open Access, REF
This post is a walk-through of the process for making a journal article open access on our institutional repository, as required by REF / SU’s open access policy. If you can pay for “Gold” open access with the publisher (including a CC-BY licence),...
by crauter | Sep 14, 2018 | Open Access
Making a paper open access serves no purpose if that paper is not findable by its potential readers. These may be other academics, students or interested public. In recent years there’s been an increase in open access discovery tools to help readers quickly...
by crauter | Sep 10, 2018 | Open Access, Research News
A group of 11 European funders, including UKRI, have put open access back in the news. They propose a radical plan from 2020 where: Papers must be free to read on publication They must have a liberal licence which allows others to reuse, translate or download...
by crauter | Aug 15, 2018 | Open Access
We have a brief guide to the basics of making papers open access to make sure you comply with the university and REF Open Access policies, now available in Welsh and English: Hanfodion Mynediad Agored Open Access Essentials
by crauter | Aug 9, 2018 | Open Access
Excellent open access news – Springer now allow self-archiving of book chapters to make them open access via the (free) “green” route. Their updated policy is here: https://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/authors-rights/self-archiving-policy/2124 Any...
