Copyright for Repository Administrators: Open access, Theses and GDPR
Part of my role in the Open Access team is depositing theses to Spiral and providing guidance and advocacy to students. I recently attended the Copyright for Repository Administrators: Open access,...
View ArticleLess gold & more green – Research Councils and Open Access at Imperial
In common with a number of other universities in receipt of Research Councils UK (RCUK/UKRI**) funding for open access (Cambridge, UCL, LSHTM), we cannot pay for every single RCUK-funded output to be...
View ArticlePlan U: Open access initiative
Plan U: A mandate for universal access to research using preprints Introduction: A preprint is a full draft of a research paper that is shared publicly before it has been peer reviewed. They are a...
View ArticleResearchGate vs. institutional repositories: Which one should I use?
Academic social network sites are currently used by researchers to share their research as well as collaborate with others studying in a similar field. Sites such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu and...
View ArticleThesis Thursday from 1920: “He wanted to infuse others with the spirit of...
To commemorate the second Thesis Thursday during global Open Access Week (October 21-27, 2019) we have gone down to the basement of Central Library here at South Kensington to look at our collection of...
View ArticleUKRI Open Access Policy Consultation: Imperial College London Response
Imperial College London has provided a response to UKRI’s Open Access Review consultation: In addition to signposting the full UKRI consultation documentation and list of questions, consultation on the...
View ArticleProtecting your assets: copyright and licensing advice for online reports,...
In times of crisis it is important that research is shared rapidly but what else should researchers consider before informally publishing their report, briefing paper or working paper on a website,...
View ArticleNo double dipping! The rise of transformative publisher agreements in the...
The impact of Plan S In 2018 a group of funders and national research agencies launched Plan S, an initiative with the central aim that by January 2021 “…all scholarly publications on the results from...
View ArticleOpen Access Week 2021 (25–31 October)
This year’s International Open Access Week takes place 25–31 October, and the theme is It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity. This theme aligns with the UNESCO Recommendation on...
View ArticleOpen Access Week 2022 (24-30 October 2022)
This year’s International Open Access Week takes place from 24–30 October, and the theme is Open For Climate Justice. This year’s theme seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate...
View ArticleSpringer Nature negotiations
UK higher education institutions along with Jisc are currently in negotiation for a new “read and publish” agreement (also referred to as “transitional” or “transformative” agreements) with the...
View ArticleThe changing state of Gold Open Access at Imperial
Publisher Agreements As was highlighted by Imperial’s Director of Library Services Chris Banks in her blog post earlier in this International Open Access Week 2022, the past few years have seen a...
View ArticleIntroducing a new journal search tool for open access publisher agreements
We have a new tool available that allows you to search for journals that are included in publisher open access agreements for Imperial College London-affiliated corresponding authors. You can search by...
View ArticleOpen Access Week 2023: Imperial’s Research Publications Open Access Policy
This post was written by Ruth Harrison, Head of Scholarly Communications Management at Imperial College London. After many years of work, the College will soon be able to announce that we are updating...
View Article#LoveData24: Interview with Yves-Alexandre from the Computational Privacy Group
As part of #LoveData24, the Research Data Management team had a chance to catch up with Yves-Alexandre, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College London, who...
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