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 | Aug 14, 2017 | Open Access, Research News
In 2017/18 RCUK expects institutions to make 75% of their RCUK funded research open access. This is a high target so please make sure you make your work open access if they provide your funding. RCUK have clarified the licences allowed on green open...
by crauter | Jun 14, 2017 | Open Access
We are just over a year into the REF Open Access policy; our own institutional open access policy (PDF) came out in March 2015. Taking a look at our repository back and front ends, we can see how deposit and full text rates have varied over time. The figures are as...
by crauter | Apr 6, 2017 | Open Access, REF
Saturday 1st April 2017 marked the one year anniversary for the REF Open Access policy: this covers all journal articles and (some) conference proceedings accepted for publication after 1st April 2016. These papers must comply with HEFCE’s Open Access policy or they...
by crauter | Jan 27, 2017 | Open Access, Research News
Have you noticed that the home page for our institutional repository, Cronfa, now showcases our full text outputs? You can now see: Most recent full text additions Lists of our most downloaded items this week, this month and all time We’ve seen a big increase in...
