Skip to content
Research Matters|Southampton

Research Matters|Southampton

Library Research Engagement Group blog

  • Home
  • About
  • Library Website
  • Twitter

Tag: Open access

The Wellcome Trust: Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) in action

1st November 20211st November 2021
Nicki Clarkson
Funder Policies, Open access

Last week my colleague Paula wrote a blog post explaining the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) and its use by Wellcome Trust authors. Including the RRS statement in journal submissions has been part of the Wellcome policy since January 2021, so

Read more

UKRI open access publishing: from now to April 2022

27th October 202129th October 2021
Nicki Clarkson
Funder Policies, Open access, UKRI

You may have heard that UKRI have announced their new open access policy, which takes effect for journal articles submitted from 1 April 2022, and (for the first time) long-form publications such as monographs from 1 January 2024. We will

Read more

Open Access biscuits: which way does the cookie crumble?

26th October 202129th October 2021
Nicki Clarkson
Funder Policies, Open access, UKRI

For Open Access Week 2019 we created a short teaching session and Twitter thread using biscuits as an analogy for the different routes to open access. We are updating both for Open Access Week 2021 to reflect a significant change:

Read more

Open access policies for UKRI and the Wellcome Trust; the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS)

26th October 202126th October 2021
ps6
Funder Policies, Open access, UKRI

This post will focus on research articles underpinned by funding, fully or partially, by both the Wellcome Trust and UKRI and will draw your attention to the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS).   Hold on to your seats! This is complicated, but please be

Read more

Open Access Jargon Buster

26th October 202126th October 2021
Kate Lapage
Open access

Open Access when applied to publications means that content is freely available to anyone anywhere in the world that has an internet connection. Which is great for the user, but for those writing content we know open access can be

Read more

Open Access policies: Breaking down paywalls

25th October 202125th October 2021
Steven Vidovic
Open access

This year’s Open Access Week follows the recent announcement of the new UKRI open access policy. This policy has been eagerly anticipated as it has experienced its fair share of delays, in part due to recent political and public health

Read more

Open Access Week 2020: A day in the life: Open Research Development Manager

15th October 202018th October 2020
Steven Vidovic
Open access

One of the few benefits of the circumstances we find ourselves in during 2020 is that I do not need to awkwardly explain what my job is and why it is important at family gatherings. I am going to assume

Read more

Open Access Week 2020: a day in the life of our Institutional Repository manager

15th October 202018th October 2020
spd
Open access

Working from home, 09.00: the big change from my two large office screens to a laptop has gone well, aided by an excellent chair and nice view from the lounge window.   Fire up the laptop and switch TV from news to Classic fM for background inspiration, hook into the

Read more

Open Access Week 2020: the importance of metadata

15th October 202018th October 2020
Emma Guest
Open access

I thought I’d start this by telling you a bit about me, I work at the National Oceanographic Library and help staff from the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre with their open access queries and applications to

Read more

Open Access Week 2020: Getting the most from your ORCiD

15th October 202018th October 2020
Nicki Clarkson
Open access

Guest written by Helen Carter, Research Publication Specialist in the Faculty of Medicine Are you getting the most out of your ORCiD? if you do one thing for Open Access week 2020 19-25 October; check Pure, add/link your ORCiD and enable

Read more

Posts navigation

Older posts

Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Research Matters|Southampton
© 2025
Powered by WordPress
Theme: Masonic by ThemeGrill