by crauter | Aug 6, 2018 | Open Access, Research News
Notes from a recent JISC event looking at where we are with open access. The Budapest initiative in 2002 described open access as a public good which “will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the...
by crauter | Jul 12, 2018 | Open Access, Research Funding
Post by Caroline Rauter Research Council Open Access (OA) block grant 2018-19 Swansea University continues to benefit from the UKRI (formerly RCUK) block grant to pay publisher Article Processing Charges (APCs). The funding, which applies to all published outputs...
by crauter | Jun 15, 2018 | Open Access, REF, Research News
Research England (formerly HEFCE) has announced the release of a new report: “Monitoring sector progress towards compliance with funder open access policies” (PDF). This reports the results from a UK-wide survey conducted in late 2017 looking at how...
by crauter | May 14, 2018 | Open Access
Publisher policies for the self-archiving of book chapters (“green” open access) are often hard to find and, when found, hard to keep as URLs change frequently. Unlike the Sherpa Romeo database, there is no centrally maintained database for publisher...
by crauter | Mar 15, 2018 | Library Resources for Research, Open Access, Theses
From October 2017 all new PhD students have to make an electronic copy of their thesis available online. Information about this is available on our LibGuide. Existing and former PhD students can also participate in the new e-thesis service to make our Swansea...
by crauter | Mar 2, 2018 | Open Access
Yesterday was a snowy World Book Day which coincided with some work we are doing to look at Swansea University’s book outputs within the context of open access. Books and book chapters are not currently covered by the HEFCE REF Open Access policy but the...
