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
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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
cOAlition S Rights Retention Strategy, or, the Embargo wars
[five minute read] Tensions surrounding scholarly publishing and the academic book market, already fraught, are increasing. Plan S has surfaced one area of stress, that relating to the rights of researcher-authors and their institutions over the research articles that they produce. Under a traditional subscription/'paywall' model, authors transfer essential copyrights in articles to publishers, which… Continue reading cOAlition S Rights Retention Strategy, or, the Embargo wars
Open Access Week 2020
[three minute read] Open Access Week is an annual event when the international scholarly communications community promotes universal free access to scholarly research. Defined technically, “open access” does not simply mean that content can be read without payment (gratis), but rather that research is permanently free and licensed in order to be meaningfully reused (libre).… Continue reading Open Access Week 2020
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