Great news for Oxford Brookes researchers as the Library signs up to a new read & publish agreement with the publisher Elsevier. The agreement allows Oxford Brookes researchers to publish an unlimited number of articles in Elsevier’s hybrid journals as Gold Open Access without paying any Open Access Fees. This Library-funded Gold Open Access applies… Continue reading A new Read & Publish agreement with Elsevier
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Rights Retention now affects some Oxford Brookes researchers
Research funders starting to implement controversial new Open Access requirement by Dan Croft [3 minute read] Rights Retention was a very lively debate that has recently become a topic of much greater relevance to Oxford Brookes researchers. The basic idea of Rights Retention is that when authors submit manuscripts to publishers they include a statement… Continue reading Rights Retention now affects some Oxford Brookes researchers
Oxford Brookes joining SpringerCompact
Fantastic news for Oxford Brookes researchers as the Library, with the support of Linda King, sign up to join Springer Nature's 'read & publish' agreement for 2022! Oxford Brookes Library has long subscribed to a number of individual Springer Nature journals. However, the Springer Nature package - called SpringerCompact - has stayed tantalizingly just out… Continue reading Oxford Brookes joining SpringerCompact
Open Access Week 2021
October 25th-31st is Open Access Week 2021. Whether you're new to Open Access or have been publishing openly for years, below you will hopefully find something of interest to you: Read our brief introductory series to Open Access, starting with the What, why, and benefits of Open Access.Follow our Tweets to the #OpenAccess2021 hashtag (and… Continue reading Open Access Week 2021
Open Access at Oxford Brookes since 2010 in graphs
Dan Croft [5 minute read] [Disclaimer: this blog post takes a fairly liberal approach to throwing different data together in the same graph.] If we combine the number of publications with an Oxford Brookes affiliation that were published as Gold Open Access (source: Web of Science) with the number of accepted manuscripts held in Oxford… Continue reading Open Access at Oxford Brookes since 2010 in graphs