Launching our new Open Access infographic

Posted on 8 February 2019 by CardiffUniOA

We’re launching the first of our monthly infographics – an “at-a-glance” overview of the University’s Open Access publications. See how many new publications and theses we have added to our repository ORCA. Find out which countries have our biggest readership, and discover our “top five” downloaded research publications and theses of the month.
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Rounding off Open Access Week 2018 . . .

Posted on 26 October 2018 by CardiffUniOA

To celebrate Open Access Week this year, we have focused on equitable opportunities for students and early career researchers to get published, and on how their research can be made Open Access. During the week, we hosted talks from publisher Taylor and Francis and from our own Cardiff University Press. Mark Robinson from Taylor and
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Open Access for pioneering print thesis on gravitational waves

Posted on 25 October 2018 by CardiffUniOA

As part of International Open Access Week 2018’s #ThesisThursday Twitter campaign, we would like to highlight a recently digitised Cardiff University thesis from 1991, A prototype system for gravitational wave data analysis, by William Watkins. Last year, due to the current‘big buzz’ around gravitational waves research, the Univerity’s Physics and Astronomy department wanted this early
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Our Open Access year

Posted on 23 October 2018 by CardiffUniOA

Since the last International Open Access Week in October 2017, we have continued to actively support Open Access in a variety of ways. Over the last 12 months, we have added a further 3,392 full text scholarly publications to our institutional repository  ORCA through Gold and Green OA routes. Freely available for anyone to read, over 40% of
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Celebrating International Open Access Week 22 – 28 October 2018

Posted on 19 October 2018 by CardiffUniOA

International Open Access Week, now in its 10th year, is all about promoting the potential benefits of Open Access publishing, and supporting the movement to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. In support of this year’s theme “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge” we will be promoting opportunities to publish research
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Discover Cardiff University’s Open Access research theses

Posted on 24 April 2018 by CardiffUniOA

Gone are the days when PhD theses sat in dusty splendour on a library shelf for a few years. From 2011 onwards all Cardiff University’s research-level theses are openly available in our institutional repository ORCA. Just click on the ORCA link to access the innovative and exciting work of Cardiff’s early career researchers. Theses are
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