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 | Sep 6, 2018 | Events and training
We are running a staff training session on “Managing Your Publication Profile: RIS, CRONFA, and Open Access”. This is aimed at any staff with publications and is an ideal introduction if you are new to Swansea University’s systems or if you just need...
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...
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 19, 2018 | Events and training, Library Resources for Research
We ran an updated version of our “Stand out and be counted” session for researchers this week. This time we have hosted all the resources on a Padlet: https://padlet.com/s_l_c_oakley/standoutandbecounted The presentations are at the bottom of each column,...
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 | Jul 4, 2018 | Research News
Back by popular demand! This is a half-day workshop to explore tools that can help you promote yourself and achieve the best visibility for your research. We aim to give an overview of the following: What can be counted about you? Citations, altmetrics and a look at...
