The biggest challenge facing Institutional Repositories like ORO is not meeting the REF Open Access policy, although that is important! Rather it is demonstrating their long term value to the research community they serve. Take the case of the discussion paper authored by Dr … Continue reading
Springer Nature is holding a multidisciplinary event on Monday 23 April in London during Academic Book Week, exploring how open access books can help authors make the most out of their research. The event is open to all researchers and … Continue reading
The Open Access policy for the next REF has been amended. To be eligible for submission to the next REF, HEFCE now requires that the full-text of journal articles and published, peer-reviewed conference proceedings (with an ISSN) are deposited in … Continue reading
This is second of three posts looking at the benefits and functions of the institutional repository through the lens of the top monthly downloads. This post looks at the different ways people get to the Open Access papers in ORO. … Continue reading
This edition of the downloads report from ORO forms 2 posts. In the first I look at the general characteristics of repository downloads and repository web sessions. In the second I will focus on a single item in ORO and … Continue reading
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Celebrate #YearOfOpen at The Open University You may be aware that 2017 is #YearOfOpen … a 365 day celebration of open education and the anniversary of a number of key milestones in its development, including the Cape Town Declaration, 15 years since the … Continue reading
It’s been one year since the HEFCE Open Access Policy for the next REF came into force. In a nutshell the policy requires all journal articles and published conference items (with an ISSN) to be deposited in a repository within … Continue reading
The download data of Open Access content in ORO can tell some fascinating stories, the counts from December and January are no exception… it really is amazing what you can discover with a bit of digging! The first one that … Continue reading
Earlier this week HEFCE updated their Open Access policy. It had been expected that the time frame for deposit to a repository would shift from 3 months of first online publication to 3 months of acceptance from 1st April 2017 … Continue reading
The 9th Global Open Access Week is held between October 24th to 30th, the theme this year is “Open in Action”. Library Services is marking Open Access Week with 3 events, all sessions are open to all. Open Research Data … Continue reading
