News and Events
- Wellcome Trust to penalise researchers not embracing open access
- The medical research funder, The Wellcome Trust, has highlighted plans to withhold a portion of researchers' final grant payments if they don't make their results available through an open access channel.
- Large-scale deposit in repositories increases access and use
- The European OpenAIRE initiative published a joint statement on the 11th June commented on the results of the recently completed European PEER project.
- CORE Search Portal Launches
- The CORE (COnnecting REpositories) Project comes from the Knowledge Management Institute at The Open University in the UK.It has launched the CORE Portal which enables rapid cross searching of online open access repositories
- EPSRC Sounds Reminder on Open Access for Funded Research
- EPSRC has issued (15 May) a reminder statement to all those it funds that published research arising from EPSRC funding must be made openly accessible by any available route.
- Harvard Highlights Open Access and Library Subscription Dilemma
- On April 17th the University of Harvard released a memo to all faculty members highlighting the untenable level of current journal subscriptions. It also outlined steps it expected faculty staff to take to enhance the sharing of their research publications.
- Wellcome Trust indicates tougher OA compliance approach
- The Wellcome Trust is reportedly aiming to get a lot tougher on ensuring compliance with its open access mandate for all research publications funded by the organisation.
- 7,000th Record added to LRA
- March 2012 has seen the 7,000th item added to LRA.
- Deposit to LRA via IRIS Goes Live
- As part of the year long introduction of the new IRIS research management system deposit to the Leicester Research Archive (LRA) has been streamlined.
- 1,000th eThesis added to the LRA
- Today the 1,000th thesis record was added to the LRA.
- New White Paper: Results of Publicly Funded Research will be Open Access
- The government has thrown its weight behind the idea that all publicly funded scientific research must be published in open-access journals in a new White paper.
- Open World of Research - Complying with Funder Requirements
- A new staff development workshop from the RSO and Library looks at the internal and external requirements and benefits associated with open research outputs.
- 85% of academics in favour of open access
- Results of a recent survey by the RSP looking at academics reactions to open access in 20 UK universities.
- Cambridge to Waive Author Charges for Open Access Journal Launch
- For the launch of two open access mathematics journals CUP will waive author publication charges for the first three years.
- 87% of Journals Allow Open Access Archiving
- Information published from the Centre for Research Communication demonstrates that 87% of journal titles allow some form of open access achiving.
- Guardian Explores Open Access in UK HE
- As part of Open Access Week 2011 the Guardian is hosting an online discussion.
- OAIG launches reports and resource pack
- The UK Open Access Implementation Group’s (OAIG) has released a series of reports and new repositories resource pack (24/10/11) as part of Open Access Week 2011
- Princeton stops staff handing all copyright to journals
- US institution Princeton University will prevent researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers, except in certain cases where a waiver may be granted
- SHERPA RoMEO Upgrade
- SHERPA/RoMEO, the copyright information service for open access archiving, has announced a major upgrade.
- EPSRC & RCUK Changes to Policy on Access to Research Outputs
- Research councils emphasise importance of open access to research outputs.
- LRA Annual Report 2010 Now Available
- View the latest Annual Report of the Leicester Research Archive
- LRA and IRIS Update Downtime Thu 10th May
- Both LRA and IRIS will be briefly offline on the afternoon of Thursday 10th May 2012.
- European Union Announces Open Access Policy
- European Union is the latest major funder this week to announce a strong open access policy, following the UK Government, RCUK and HEFCE.
- UKOAIG Publishes Report on the Cost of Open Access for Universities
- In the wake of the Finch Report, a new report commissioned by the UK Open Access Implementation Group (UKOAIG) has been published demonstrating the costs and impacts on institutions under a various conditions.
