News and Events

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.

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.