Celebrating International Open Access Week 21-27 October

Posted on 21 October 2019 by CardiffUniOA

To celebrate the first day of International Open Access Week 2019 we have put together a special edition of our OA infographic focusing on the last 12 months. International Open Access Week is a global, community-driven week of action to promote the opening-up of access to research. The event, celebrated by individuals, institutions and organizations
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Open Access Infographic #7

Posted on 8 August 2019 by CardiffUniOA

Here’s our latest infographic. Check out our Open Access output and see what the “top 5” downloaded research articles and theses were in July –all freely available to read in full text at ORCA.
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Open Access Infographic #6

Posted on 5 July 2019 by CardiffUniOA

Here’s our latest infographic. Check out our Open Access output and see what the “top 5” downloaded research articles and theses were in June –all freely available to read in full text at ORCA.
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Green Open Access gets greener with Sage and Emerald’s “no embargo” policies

Posted on 6 April 2018 by CardiffUniOA

Publishers Sage and Emerald are pushing the boundaries of Green Open Access with the removal of embargo periods. Emerald Reach, launched in autumn 2017 has removed embargo periods across all 300+ journals, which focus on management, information science, and engineering. Authors opting for the Green route to Open Access can make the accepted manuscript version
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Discover biodiversity heritage materials with the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Posted on 15 March 2018 by CardiffUniOA

Every so often we will feature specific Open Access resources on our blog that we think may be of interest to some of our readers. This week, it’s the turn of the The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) BHL is an Open Access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives, curated by a consortium of natural history
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Open Access books and monographs – a changing landscape

Posted on 4 January 2018 by CardiffUniOA

The possibilities for scholarly Open Access monograph publishing were first explored around ten years ago, resulting in organisations such as OAPEN and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) setting up archiving and discovery services enabling easier access to the resources. Today over 240 publishers are experimenting with Open Access Monographs. The recently published JISC
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Have a merry Open Access Christmas!

Posted on 20 December 2017 by CardiffUniOA

Season’s greetings from the Open Access team. To round off 2017 on a festive note here is a selection of Open Access resources with a Christmas theme: Christmas trees There is a biennial International Christmas Tree Research and Extension Conference! This year’s, the 13th!, took place in Iceland. Find out about the research underpinning Christmas
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New to Open Access? A quick guide on terminology and article versions

Posted on 13 December 2017 by CardiffUniOA

Are you new to Open Access? Does this wordcloud confuse you? Our handy guide to terminology and article versions  tells you more about Green and Gold Open Access, CC licences and the different versions of your article which funders and publishers might refer to. If you are still confused, don’t forget that you can always
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Open Access in a nutshell for readers and authors @ Cardiff

Posted on 29 November 2017 by CardiffUniOA

To celebrate International Open Access Week 2017 we have put together a duo of at-a-glance ready reference guides – one for authors and one for readers of Open Access materials. The pdf guides are available in a handy “large postcard” size ideal for printing out and pinning to your noticeboard, or tucking into a folder.
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Congratulations to the winners of our Open Access Week competition

Posted on 22 November 2017 by CardiffUniOA

To celebrate Open Access Week in October, we invited our students and staff to enter a prize competition for a chance to win one of two Amazon Gift vouchers. We asked entrants to describe the benefits that Open Access can bring by finishing the sentence “Open Access in order to ……” The winners below have
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