The University of Edinburgh receives two main block grants from Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) to support researchers funded by…
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For Open Access week we have a series of blog posts lined up to be published every day. We’ll start by describing the current state…
Leave a CommentThe University of Edinburgh has opted to support the Open Library of Humanities at a higher rate than required. This additional support will enable…
Leave a CommentWe are delighted to announce the deposit of the 20,000th item into our institutional repository the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). ERA is a digital repository…
Leave a CommentAs more and more publishers have started to offer open access institutional memberships we have started to struggle with the effective management of the various schemes. We…
Leave a CommentImage: Bass valve trumpet. Nominal pitch: 8-ft C (CC-BY from the MIMEd collection) Not one to blow our own trumpets too often, I’m pleased to report…
Leave a CommentHere is a quick blog post to warn you of targeted attempts to distribute malware by unknown and hostile persons. Over the last few weeks…
Leave a CommentAs part of the Lessons in Open Access Compliance for Higher Education (LOCH) project we have been looking at the problems of identifying Article Processing Charges…
Leave a CommentAs pointed out to me a number of times the use of ORCID.org IDs is rapidly growing: Oct 16, 2012: 0 Nov 21, 2014: 1,011,557…
Leave a CommentSci-Hub has been getting a lot of attention recently – for those of you not up to date there are some really good pieces written…
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