A Fast-Track Route to Open Access
Arthur Smith In the last two years, since the REF 2021 open access policy came into force, the Open Access Team has received an…
2019
Having Information to Hand: Research Support Handy Guides
Office of Scholarly Communication If there is one thing I’ve learnt over the last few years of training library staff it’s that they really love a…
Multiplicity, the unofficial theme of Researcher to Reader 2019
Office of Scholarly Communication For the past four years at the end of February, publishers, librarians, agents, researchers, technologists and consultants have gathered in London for…
Plan S – links, commentary and news items
The discussions around Plan S are voluminous. On 8 February 2019, the opportunity to provide feedback on Plan S closed. We were…
2018 That Was The Year That Was
In what has now become a tradition, we are sending out our annual summary of the activities of the Office of Scholarly…
Orpheus, an Open Source solution for journal policies
As anyone who administers an institutional repository can tell you, repeatedly looking up journals’ policies and attributes is a pain in the…
Cartooning the Data Champions
Clair Castle, Librarian at the Department of Chemistry, describes how during her secondment to the Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) as Research…
Moving online: training librarians in 2018
As we move into 2019 it is a good time to look back at another year spent training the library community, both…