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 CommentThe CERN – UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication took place at the University of Geneva in June 21st-23rd 2017. Two and a half…
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 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 CommentThe Scholarly Communications Team estimates that staff at the University of Edinburgh write, edit or contribute to over 500 books annually and the Library aspires to…
Leave a CommentThanks to a major digitisation project being undertaken by Library & University Collections we are proud to announce our 10,000th open access item has recently…
Leave a CommentPhoto courtesy of Images_of_Money Over the last few weeks I’ve been preparing and reviewing various compliance and financial reports for funding agencies on their annual open access…
Leave a CommentThe JISC-funded Enhancing Repository Infrastructure in Scotland (ERIS) was left with some money underspent. University of Edinburgh’s proposal on how use the remaining money to…
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